Eric Braeden
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.
81 acting credits
Acting · 81
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Mannix
1967
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
The Nanny
1993
Charlie's Angels
1976
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Titanic
1997
The Virginian
1962
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
Combat!
1962
Cannon
1971
The F.B.I.
1965
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
CHiPs
1977
Barnaby Jones
1973
Run for Your Life
1965
Kojak
1973
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
1955
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
77 Sunset Strip
1958
McCloud
1970
Vega$
1978
Switch
1975
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
The Young and the Restless
1973
Hope & Faith
2003
Wonder Woman
1975
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
12 O'Clock High
1964
How the West Was Won
1977
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
Banacek
1972
Den of Thieves
2018
The Magician
1973
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
The Gallant Men
1962
The Rat Patrol
1966
Matt Helm
1975
Bronk
1975
Jericho
1966
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
Barbary Coast
1975
The Young Rebels
1970
Piranha
1978
The Daytime Emmy Awards
1974
Blue Light
1966
Lucky Chances
1990
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
100 Rifles
1969
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
1977
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
1973
Morituri
1965
Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
1993
And the Winner Isn't
2017
Meet the Deedles
1998
The Ambulance
1990
The Man Who Came Back
2008
WWE Unforgiven 2002
2002
Death Scream
1975
Lady Ice
1973
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
Death Race
1973
Operation Eichmann
1961
Code Name: Diamond Head
1977
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
The Titanic Chronicles
1999
The Power Within
1979
The Mask of Sheba
1970
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
1973
Dayton's Devils
1968
Happily Ever After
1978
The Adulteress
1973
Intertect
1973
3055 Jean Leon
2007
The Ultimate Thrill
1974