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Eric Braeden

Acting Born Apr 3, 1941 Bredenbek, Germany 24 credits

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.

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Known for

How I Met Your Mother

as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

Run for Your Life

as Eric Horst

Run for Your Life

as Janos Takacs

Murder, She Wrote

as Col. Gerhardt Brunner

The Nanny

as Frank Bradley
Film

Titanic

as John Jacob Astor
Film

Notting Hill

1999

Full filmography

  • How I Met Your Mother (2005) as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
  • Run for Your Life (1965) as Eric Horst
  • Run for Your Life (1965) as Janos Takacs
  • Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
  • The Nanny (1993) as Frank Bradley
  • Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Dr. Paul Farrar
  • Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Klaus Marburg
  • Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Djebara
  • Diagnosis: Murder (1993) as Eric Braeden
  • The Virginian (1962) as Augustin
  • Mannix (1967)
  • The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) as Victor Cheraskin
  • Mission: Impossible (1966) as Col. Markus von Frank
  • Mission: Impossible (1966) as Andrei Fetyakov
  • Titanic (1997) as John Jacob Astor
  • Charlie's Angels (1976) as John Reardon
  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) as Manfred Scharff
  • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) as Kurt Krug
  • Combat! (1962) as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
  • Combat! (1962) as Hans Gruber
  • Combat! (1962) as Ecktmann
  • Combat! (1962) as German Vehicle Commander
  • CHiPs (1977)
  • Cannon (1971)