Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden
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.
Known For
Actor
as Ziggy Zerhusen
as Self
as Reese Paxton
as Self
as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
as Lance Taylor
as Self
as (voice)
as Elton Deedle
as John Astor
as David Morrison
as Frank Bradley
as Eric Braeden
as The Doctor
as Dimitri Stanislopolous
as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
as Leonard Nero
as Stephens
as Ross Ford
as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
as Arthur Rollins
as Bruno Von Stickle
as Ernest Graeber
as Francis Britten
as John Reardon
as Kosinsky
as Donalsen
as Captain Drangel
as Forbes
as Mike Jenkins
as Franz Hausner
as Bristol
as Roland Parlay
as Bernhardt Stieglitz
as Victor Cheraskin
as Stoeffer
as Arlen Findletter
as Peter Brinker
as Col. Gunter Kroll
as Emhardt
as Hank Baron
as Kenneth Krug
as Nelson Paradine
as Victor Newman
as Steven Kingston
as Anton Granicek
as Paul Bolitho
as Dr. Otto Hasslein
as Dr Charles Forbin
as Dr. Roan Morgan
as Frederico Caprio
as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
as Pastor Goodleigh
as Max Eikhart
as Dr. Paul Farrar
as Klaus Marburg
as Djebara
as Col. Markus von Frank
as Andrei Fetyakov
as Capt. Hans Dietrich
as Radio Officer (uncredited)
as Nicholas Blok
as Becker
as Eric Horst
as Janos Takacs
as Gerd Hoffman
as Manfred Scharff
as Kurt Krug
as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
as Hans Gruber
as German Vehicle Commander
as Ecktmann
as Augustin
as Klaus
as German Soldier (uncredited)
as Carl Jaekel
as Jack Sinclair
as William E. Talley
Producer
as Executive Producer