Eric Braeden

Born: 1941-04-03 in Bredenbek, Germany

Known For: Acting

Biography

Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.

Filmography

2018

Den of Thieves as Ziggy Zerhusen

2005

How I Met Your Mother as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

2003

Hope & Faith as Lance Taylor

2002

WWE Unforgiven 2002 as Self

1999

The Titanic Chronicles as (voice)

1998

Meet the Deedles as Elton Deedle

1997

Titanic as John Jacob Astor

1996

E! True Hollywood Story

1993

The Nanny as Frank Bradley
Diagnosis: Murder as Eric Braeden
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives as David Morrison

1990

The Ambulance as The Doctor
Lucky Chances as Dimitri Stanislopolous

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Col. Gerhardt Brunner

1980

The Aliens Are Coming as Leonard Nero

1979

The Power Within as Stephens

1978

Vega$ as Arthur Rollins
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Piranha as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
Happily Ever After as Ross Ford

1977

How the West Was Won as Francis Britten
CHiPs
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo as Bruno Von Stickle
Code Name: Diamond Head as Ernest Graeber

1976

Charlie's Angels as John Reardon

1975

Wonder Woman as Donalsen
Switch as Mike Jenkins
Bronk
Death Scream as Kosinsky
Matt Helm as Forbes
Barbary Coast as Bristol

1974

The Six Million Dollar Man as Victor Cheraskin
Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Bernhardt Stieglitz
The Daytime Emmy Awards
The Ultimate Thrill as Roland Parlay

1973

Kojak as Kenneth Krug
Barnaby Jones as Steven Kingston
Death Race as Stoeffer
The Young and the Restless as Victor Newman
Intertect as Emhardt
Lady Ice as Peter Brinker
The Magician as Nelson Paradine
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War as Arlen Findletter
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John as Col. Gunter Kroll
The Adulteress as Hank Baron

1972

The Rookies
Banacek as Paul Bolitho
The Judge and Jake Wyler as Anton Granicek

1971

Cannon
Escape from the Planet of the Apes as Dr. Otto Hasslein
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Mike Benson

1970

McCloud
Colossus: The Forbin Project as Dr Charles Forbin
The Mask of Sheba as Dr. Roan Morgan
The Young Rebels

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D. as Pastor Goodleigh
100 Rifles as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
Honeymoon with a Stranger as Frederico Caprio

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Paul Farrar
Dayton's Devils as Max Eikhart

1967

1966

Mission: Impossible as Col. Markus von Frank
The Rat Patrol as Capt. Hans Dietrich
Jericho
Blue Light

1965

The F.B.I. as Nicholas Blok
Run for Your Life as Eric Horst
Morituri as Radio Officer (uncredited)

1964

12 O'Clock High as Maj. Gerhard Bentz

1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Manfred Scharff
Kraft Suspense Theatre as Gerd Hoffman

1962

The Virginian as Augustin
Combat! as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
The Gallant Men

1961

Operation Eichmann as Klaus

1958

77 Sunset Strip as German Soldier (uncredited)

1955

Gunsmoke as Carl Jaekel