Eric Braeden

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1941-04-03 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Bredenbek, Germany

Also Known As Hans-Jörg Gudegast

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

2018
Den of Thieves

as Ziggy Zerhusen

2008
The Man Who Came Back

as Reese Paxton

2007
2005
How I Met Your Mother

as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

2003
Hope & Faith

as Lance Taylor

1999
1998
Meet the Deedles

as Elton Deedle

1997
Titanic

as John Astor

1993
The Nanny

as Frank Bradley

1993
Diagnosis: Murder

as Eric Braeden

1990
The Ambulance

as The Doctor

1990
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
Happily Ever After

as Ross Ford

1978
Piranha

as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)

1978
Vega$

as Arthur Rollins

1977
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

as Bruno Von Stickle

1977
Code Name: Diamond Head

as Ernest Graeber

1977
1977
How the West Was Won

as Francis Britten

1976
Charlie's Angels

as John Reardon

1975
Death Scream

as Kosinsky

1975
Wonder Woman

as Donalsen

1975
Wonder Woman

as Captain Drangel

1975
Matt Helm

as Forbes

1975
Switch

as Mike Jenkins

1975
Switch

as Franz Hausner

1975
Barbary Coast

as Bristol

1975
1974
The Ultimate Thrill

as Roland Parlay

1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as Bernhardt Stieglitz

1974
The Six Million Dollar Man

as Victor Cheraskin

1973
Death Race

as Stoeffer

1973
Lady Ice

as Peter Brinker

1973
1973
Intertect

as Emhardt

1973
The Adulteress

as Hank Baron

1973
Kojak

as Kenneth Krug

1973
The Magician

as Nelson Paradine

1973
1973
Barnaby Jones

as Steven Kingston

1972
The Judge and Jake Wyler

as Anton Granicek

1972
Banacek

as Paul Bolitho

1971
1971
1970
Colossus: The Forbin Project

as Dr Charles Forbin

1970
The Mask of Sheba

as Dr. Roan Morgan

1969
Honeymoon with a Stranger

as Frederico Caprio

1969
100 Rifles

as Lt. Franz Von Klemme

1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Pastor Goodleigh

1968
Dayton's Devils

as Max Eikhart

1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Dr. Paul Farrar

1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Klaus Marburg

1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Djebara

1967
1966
Mission: Impossible

as Col. Markus von Frank

1966
Mission: Impossible

as Andrei Fetyakov

1966
The Rat Patrol

as Capt. Hans Dietrich

1965
Morituri

as Radio Officer (uncredited)

1965
The F.B.I.

as Nicholas Blok

1965
The F.B.I.

as Becker

1965
Run for Your Life

as Eric Horst

1965
Run for Your Life

as Janos Takacs

1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Gerd Hoffman

1962
Combat!

as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)

1962
Combat!

as Hans Gruber

1962
Combat!

as Ecktmann

1962
Combat!

as German Vehicle Commander

1962
The Virginian

as Augustin

1961
1958
77 Sunset Strip

as German Soldier (uncredited)

1955
Gunsmoke

as Carl Jaekel

1955
Gunsmoke

as Jack Sinclair

1955
Gunsmoke

as William E. Talley

Producer

2008
The Man Who Came Back

as Executive Producer