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

Titanic

3055 Jean Leon

Acting

1997

Titanic

as

John Jacob Astor

1971

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

as

Dr. Otto Hasslein

1978

Piranha

as

Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)

1998

Meet the Deedles

as

Elton Deedle

1961

Operation Eichmann

as

Klaus

1970

Colossus: The Forbin Project

as

Dr Charles Forbin

1969

100 Rifles

as

Lt. Franz Von Klemme

2008

The Man Who Came Back

as

Reese Paxton

1968

Dayton's Devils

as

Max Eikhart

1990

The Ambulance

as

The Doctor

1973

The Adulteress

as

Hank Baron

1977

Code Name: Diamond Head

as

Ernest Graeber

1980

The Aliens Are Coming

as

Leonard Nero

2007

3055 Jean Leon

as

Self

1969

Honeymoon with a Stranger

as

Frederico Caprio

1973

Death Race

as

Stoeffer

1978

Happily Ever After

as

Ross Ford

1970

The Mask of Sheba

as

Dr. Roan Morgan

2002

WWE Unforgiven 2002

as

Self

1974

The Ultimate Thrill

as

Roland Parlay

1972

The Judge and Jake Wyler

as

Anton Granicek

1973

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

as

Col. Gunter Kroll

2017

And the Winner Isn't

as

Self

2018

Den of Thieves

as

Ziggy Zerhusen

1977

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

as

Bruno Von Stickle

1979

The Power Within

as

Stephens

1973

Lady Ice

as

Peter Brinker

1973

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

as

Arlen Findletter

1965

Morituri

as

Radio Officer (uncredited)

1975

Death Scream

as

Kosinsky

1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

as

David Morrison

1973

Intertect

as

Emhardt

1999

The Titanic Chronicles

as

(voice)

Murder, She Wrote

as

Col. Gerhardt Brunner

Garrison's Gorillas

as

CHiPs

as

The Gallant Men

as

How I Met Your Mother

as

Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

The Rookies

as

Hope & Faith

as

Lance Taylor

Kraft Suspense Theatre

as

Gerd Hoffman

The F.B.I.

as

Nicholas Blok

Hawaii Five-O

as

Dr. Paul Farrar

The Nanny

as

Frank Bradley

E! True Hollywood Story

as

Charlie's Angels

as

John Reardon

Mannix

as

Kojak

as

Kenneth Krug

Gunsmoke

as

Carl Jaekel

Combat!

as

Drunken German soldier (uncredited)

Wonder Woman

as

Donalsen

Mission: Impossible

as

Col. Markus von Frank

Cannon

as

Diagnosis: Murder

as

Eric Braeden

Vega$

as

Arthur Rollins

Run for Your Life

as

Eric Horst

Switch

as

Mike Jenkins

The Virginian

as

Augustin

McCloud

as

The Young Rebels

as

The Young and the Restless

as

Victor Newman

The Rat Patrol

as

Capt. Hans Dietrich

Barbary Coast

as

Bristol

The Daytime Emmy Awards

as

Jericho

as

77 Sunset Strip

as

German Soldier (uncredited)

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

as

Blue Light

as

Bronk

as

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as

Bernhardt Stieglitz

Matt Helm

as

Forbes

The Magician

as

Nelson Paradine

Lucky Chances

as

Dimitri Stanislopolous

The F.B.I.

as

Becker

Combat!

as

Hans Gruber

Combat!

as

Ecktmann

Combat!

as

German Vehicle Commander

Gunsmoke

as

Jack Sinclair

Gunsmoke

as

William E. Talley

Hawaii Five-O

as

Klaus Marburg

Hawaii Five-O

as

Djebara

Run for Your Life

as

Janos Takacs

The Six Million Dollar Man

as

Victor Cheraskin

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as

Manfred Scharff

Mission: Impossible

as

Andrei Fetyakov

Switch

as

Franz Hausner

Barnaby Jones

as

Steven Kingston

Banacek

as

Paul Bolitho

Wonder Woman

as

Captain Drangel

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as

Kurt Krug

Marcus Welby, M.D.

as

Pastor Goodleigh

How the West Was Won

as

Francis Britten

12 O'Clock High

as

Maj. Gerhard Bentz

Production

2008

The Man Who Came Back

as

Crew

Directing