Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 3, 1941 (age 85)
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 - Movies
Titanic
as John Jacob Astor
Den of Thieves
as Ziggy Zerhusen
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Dr. Otto Hasslein
Piranha
as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
100 Rifles
as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
Morituri
as Radio Officer (uncredited)
Colossus: The Forbin Project
as Dr Charles Forbin
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
The Ambulance
as The Doctor
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
as Bruno Von Stickle
Known For - TV Shows
How I Met Your Mother
as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
Diagnosis: Murder
as Eric Braeden
Murder, She Wrote
as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
The Nanny
as Frank Bradley
Mission: Impossible
as Col. Markus von Frank
Mission: Impossible
as Andrei Fetyakov
Mannix
Charlie's Angels
as John Reardon
The Virginian
as Augustin
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Paul Farrar