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