Eric Braeden
Acting • Born 1941-04-03
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
94 credits
Titanic
Movie • 1997
John Jacob Astor
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 1971
Dr. Otto Hasslein
Piranha
Movie • 1978
Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
Meet the Deedles
Movie • 1998
Elton Deedle
Operation Eichmann
Movie • 1961
Klaus
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Movie • 1970
Dr Charles Forbin
100 Rifles
Movie • 1969
Lt. Franz Von Klemme
The Man Who Came Back
Movie • 2008
Reese Paxton
Dayton's Devils
Movie • 1968
Max Eikhart
The Ambulance
Movie • 1990
The Doctor
The Adulteress
Movie • 1973
Hank Baron
Code Name: Diamond Head
Movie • 1977
Ernest Graeber
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie • 1980
Leonard Nero
3055 Jean Leon
Movie • 2007
Self
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Movie • 1969
Frederico Caprio
Death Race
Movie • 1973
Stoeffer
Happily Ever After
Movie • 1978
Ross Ford
The Mask of Sheba
Movie • 1970
Dr. Roan Morgan
WWE Unforgiven 2002
Movie • 2002
Self
The Ultimate Thrill
Movie • 1974
Roland Parlay
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Movie • 1972
Anton Granicek
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
Movie • 1973
Col. Gunter Kroll
And the Winner Isn't
Movie • 2017
Self
Den of Thieves
Movie • 2018
Ziggy Zerhusen
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Movie • 1977
Bruno Von Stickle
The Power Within
Movie • 1979
Stephens
Lady Ice
Movie • 1973
Peter Brinker
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
Movie • 1973
Arlen Findletter
Morituri
Movie • 1965
Radio Officer (uncredited)
Death Scream
Movie • 1975
Kosinsky
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Movie • 1993
David Morrison
Intertect
Movie • 1973
Emhardt
The Titanic Chronicles
Movie • 1999
(voice)
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Col. Gerhardt Brunner
Garrison's Gorillas
TV • 1967
CHiPs
TV • 1977
The Gallant Men
TV • 1962
How I Met Your Mother
TV • 2005
Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Hope & Faith
TV • 2003
Lance Taylor
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Gerd Hoffman
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Nicholas Blok
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Dr. Paul Farrar
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Frank Bradley
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
John Reardon
Mannix
TV • 1967
Kojak
TV • 1973
Kenneth Krug
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Carl Jaekel
Combat!
TV • 1962
Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Donalsen
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Col. Markus von Frank
Cannon
TV • 1971
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Eric Braeden
Vega$
TV • 1978
Arthur Rollins
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Eric Horst
Switch
TV • 1975
Mike Jenkins
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Augustin
The Young Rebels
TV • 1970
The Young and the Restless
TV • 1973
Victor Newman
Barbary Coast
TV • 1975
Bristol
The Rat Patrol
TV • 1966
Capt. Hans Dietrich
The Daytime Emmy Awards
TV • 1974
Jericho
TV • 1966
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
German Soldier (uncredited)
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV • 1978
Blue Light
TV • 1966
Bronk
TV • 1975
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Bernhardt Stieglitz
Matt Helm
TV • 1975
Forbes
The Magician
TV • 1973
Nelson Paradine
Lucky Chances
TV • 1990
Dimitri Stanislopolous
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Becker
Combat!
TV • 1962
Ecktmann
Combat!
TV • 1962
German Vehicle Commander
Combat!
TV • 1962
Hans Gruber
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jack Sinclair
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
William E. Talley
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Klaus Marburg
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Djebara
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Janos Takacs
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Victor Cheraskin
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Manfred Scharff
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Andrei Fetyakov
Switch
TV • 1975
Franz Hausner
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Steven Kingston
Banacek
TV • 1972
Paul Bolitho
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Captain Drangel
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Kurt Krug
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Pastor Goodleigh
How the West Was Won
TV • 1977
Francis Britten
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Maj. Gerhard Bentz
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Mike Benson
McCloud
TV • 1970
Ravik