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