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Eric Braeden

Actor / Film Producer | * 04/03/1941 (83) | Bredenbek (Germany)
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Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in Colossus: The Forbin Project, as Dr. Otto Hasslein in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman. ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Mystery

Known for these Movies & Shows

Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterp ...

Colossus: The Forbin Project

PG

1970 | 3.5/5 | 1h 40min
Science Fiction, Thriller
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The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to ...

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

G

1971 | 3.2/5 | 1h 38min
Action, Science Fiction
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101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi ...

Titanic

PG-13

1997 | 4.0/5 | 3h 14min
Drama, Romance / Love
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The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, domina ...

The Young and the Restless

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1973- | 3.4/5 | 30min per episode
Soap / Telenovela, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Eric Braeden

Commander's Cross of The Order of Merit of The Federal Republic of Germany Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Movies with Eric Braeden as Actor(30)

as Ziggy Zerhusen2018 Den of Thieves
as himself2017 And the Winner Isn't
as Reese Paxton2008 The Man Who Came Back
2007 3055 Jean Leon
as himself2002 WWE Unforgiven 2002
as Elton Deedle1998 Meet the Deedles
as John Astor1997 Titanic
as David Morrison1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as The Doctor1990 The Ambulance
as Leonard Nero1980 The Aliens Are Coming
as Stephens1979 The Power Within
as Ross Ford1978 Happily Ever After
as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)1978 Piranha
as Ernest Graeber1977 Code Name: Diamond Head
as Bruno Von Stickle1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
as Kosinsky1975 Death Scream
as Roland Parlay1974 The Ultimate Thrill
as Stoeffer1973 Death Race
as Arlen Findletter1973 The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
as Peter Brinker1973 Lady Ice
as Col. Gunter Kroll1973 Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
as Emhardt1973 Intertect
as Anton Granicek1972 The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Dr. Otto Hasslein1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Dr Charles Forbin1970 Colossus: The Forbin Project
as Frederico Caprio1969 Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Lt. Franz Von Klemme1969 100 Rifles
as Max Eikhart1968 Dayton's Devils
as Radio Officer1965 Morituri
as Klaus1961 Operation Eichmann

TV Shows/Series with Eric Braeden as Actor(51)

as Robin Scherbatsky2005 How I Met Your Mother
as Lance Taylor2003 Hope & Faith
1996 E! True Hollywood Story
as Frank Bradley1993 The Nanny
as himself1993 Diagnosis: Murder
as Dimitri Stanislopolous1990 Jackie Collins' Lucky/Chances
as Col. Gerhardt Brunner1984 Murder, She Wrote
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries
as Arthur Rollins1978 Vega$
1977 CHiPs
as John Reardon1976 Charlie's Angels
as Bristol1975 Barbary Coast
as Donalsen1975 Wonder Woman
as Captain Drangel1975 Wonder Woman
as Mike Jenkins1975 Switch
as Franz Hausner1975 Switch
1975 Bronk
as Bernhardt Stieglitz1974 The Night Stalker
as Kenneth Krug1973 Kojak
as Victor Newman1973 The Young and the Restless
as Victoria Newman1973 The Young and the Restless
as Steven Kingston1973 Barnaby Jones
1972 The Rookies
1971 Cannon
1970 McCloud
1970 The Young Rebels
as Dr. Paul Farrar1968 Hawaii Five-O
as Klaus Marburg1968 Hawaii Five-O
as Djebara1968 Hawaii Five-O
1967 Garrison's Gorillas
1967 Mannix
1966 Jericho
1966 Mission: Impossible
as Capt. Hans Dietrich1966 The Rat Patrol
1966 Blue Light
as Nicholas Blok1965 The F.B.I.
as Becker1965 The F.B.I.
as Eric Horst1965 Run for Your Life
as Janos Takacs1965 Run for Your Life
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Gerd Hoffman1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)1962 Combat!
as Hans Gruber1962 Combat!
as German Vehicle Commander1962 Combat!
as Ecktmann1962 Combat!
as Augustin1962 The Virginian
1962 The Gallant Men
as German Soldier (uncredited)1958 77 Sunset Strip
as Carl Jaekel1955 Gunsmoke
as Jack Sinclair1955 Gunsmoke
as William E. Talley1955 Gunsmoke

Movies with Eric Braeden as Crew(1)

Production/Executive Producer2008 The Man Who Came Back

Additional Information

Full Name: Eric Braeden
Born: Thursday, 04/03 1941 (April) in Bredenbek (Germany) (current age: 83 years + 22 days)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University of Montana
Other names for Eric Braeden (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Hans-Jörg Gudegast"
"Hans Jörg Gudegast"
Eric Braeden frequently works together with these people:
Gregg Palmer (30x, Actor)
Andrew Duggan (28x, Actor)
Claude Akins (27x, Actor)
Peter Mark Richman (27x, Actor)
Victor French (27x, Actor)
Milton Selzer (27x, Actor)
John Dehner (26x, Actor)
Robert Pine (25x, Actor)
John Anderson (25x, Actor)
Lloyd Bochner (24x, Actor)
Frank Marth (24x, Actor)
James Cameron (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:33332, Added: 05/13/2018, Last updated: 04/20/2024