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

• 2018Den of Thieves — Ziggy Zerhusen
• 2008The Man Who Came Back — Reese Paxton, Executive Producer
• How I Met Your Mother — Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
• Hope & Faith — Lance Taylor
• 1999The Titanic Chronicles — (voice)
• 1998Meet the Deedles — Elton Deedle
• 1997Titanic — John Jacob Astor
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Diagnosis: Murder — Eric Braeden
• 1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives — David Morrison
• The Nanny — Frank Bradley
• Lucky Chances — Dimitri Stanislopolous
• 1990The Ambulance — The Doctor
• Murder, She Wrote — Col. Gerhardt Brunner
• 1980The Aliens Are Coming — Leonard Nero
• 1979The Power Within — Stephens
• 1978Happily Ever After — Ross Ford
• 1978Piranha — Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
• The Eddie Capra Mysteries
• Vega$ — Arthur Rollins
• CHiPs
• 1977Code Name: Diamond Head — Ernest Graeber
• 1977Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo — Bruno Von Stickle
• How the West Was Won — Francis Britten
• Charlie's Angels — John Reardon
• Barbary Coast — Bristol
• Bronk
• 1975Death Scream — Kosinsky
• Matt Helm — Forbes
• Switch — Mike Jenkins, Franz Hausner
• Wonder Woman — Donalsen, Captain Drangel
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker — Bernhardt Stieglitz
• The Daytime Emmy Awards
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Victor Cheraskin
• 1974The Ultimate Thrill — Roland Parlay
• Barnaby Jones — Steven Kingston
• 1973Death Race — Stoeffer
• 1973Intertect — Emhardt
• Kojak — Kenneth Krug
• 1973Lady Ice — Peter Brinker
• 1973Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John — Col. Gunter Kroll
• 1973The Adulteress — Hank Baron
• The Magician — Nelson Paradine
• 1973The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War — Arlen Findletter
• The Young and the Restless — Victor Newman
• Banacek — Paul Bolitho
• 1972The Judge and Jake Wyler — Anton Granicek
• The Rookies
• Cannon
• 1971Escape from the Planet of the Apes — Dr. Otto Hasslein
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — Mike Benson
• 1970Colossus: The Forbin Project — Dr Charles Forbin
• McCloud — Ravik
• 1970The Mask of Sheba — Dr. Roan Morgan
• The Young Rebels
• 1969100 Rifles — Lt. Franz Von Klemme
• Hawaii Five-O — Dr. Paul Farrar, Klaus Marburg, Djebara
• 1969Honeymoon with a Stranger — Frederico Caprio
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Pastor Goodleigh
• 1968Dayton's Devils — Max Eikhart
• Garrison's Gorillas
• Mannix
• Blue Light
• Jericho
• Mission: Impossible — Col. Markus von Frank, Andrei Fetyakov
• The Rat Patrol — Capt. Hans Dietrich
• 1965Morituri — Radio Officer (uncredited)
• Run for Your Life — Eric Horst, Janos Takacs
• The F.B.I. — Nicholas Blok, Becker
• 12 O'Clock High — Maj. Gerhard Bentz
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Manfred Scharff, Kurt Krug
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Gerd Hoffman
• Combat! — Drunken German soldier (uncredited), Hans Gruber, Ecktmann, German Vehicle Commander
• The Gallant Men
• The Virginian — Augustin
• 1961Operation Eichmann — Klaus
• 77 Sunset Strip — German Soldier (uncredited)
• Gunsmoke — Carl Jaekel, Jack Sinclair, William E. Talley

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2017And the Winner Isn't — Self
• The Talk — Self
• 20073055 Jean Leon — Self
• 2002WWE Unforgiven 2002 — Self