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

Titanic

as John Astor

How I Met Your Mother

as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.

Den of Thieves

as Ziggy Zerhusen

The Nanny

as Frank Bradley

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

as Dr. Otto Hasslein

Piranha

as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)

Wonder Woman

as Donalsen

Wonder Woman

as Captain Drangel

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Victor Cheraskin

Murder, She Wrote

as Col. Gerhardt Brunner