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Eric Braeden

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4/3/1941, Kiel, Germany

Birth Name

Hans Jörg Gudegast

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Hans Gudegast, Eric Braeden

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Eric Braeden, born Hans Jrg Gudegast, is a film and television actor. Eric is most notable for playing Victor Newman, a lead character on CBS's The Young and The Restless, since 1980. Along with crossing his Victor Newman character over to Y&R's sister show The Bold and the…more

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Star (7)

Role
- The Young and the Restless
  Victor Newman
  - S 41: Ep 43 Ep. #10164
    5/23/13
  - S 41: Ep 42 Ep. #10163
    5/22/13
  - S 41: Ep 38 Ep. #10159
    5/16/13
  - S 41: Ep 37 Ep. #10158
    5/15/13
  - S 41: Ep 36 Ep. #10157
    5/14/13
  - + 1251 More Credits
- The Man Who Came Back
  Star
  2008
- The Young and the Restless
  Victor Newman (1980-)
  - S 33: Ep 32 Ep. #8131
    5/11/05
  - S 33: Ep 31 Ep. #8130
    5/10/05
  - S 33: Ep 30 Ep. #8129
    5/9/05
  - S 33: Ep 29 Ep. #8128
    5/6/05
  - S 33: Ep 28 Ep. #8127
    5/5/05
  - + 932 More Credits
- Meet the Deedles
  Star
  1999
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives
  Star
  1993
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  Dr. Otto Hasslein
  1971
- The Rat Patrol
  Capt. Hans Dietrich
  - S 2: Ep 26 The Kill at Koorlea Raid
    3/18/68
  - S 2: Ep 24 The Tug of War Raid
    3/4/68
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Touch and Go Raid
    2/5/68
  - S 2: Ep 19 The Decoy Raid
    1/22/68
  - S 2: Ep 17 The Boomerang Raid
    1/8/68
  - + 26 More Credits
Recurring Role (2)

Role
- Gunsmoke
  Jack Sinclair
  - S 17: Ep 14 Gold Train: The Bullet (3)
    12/13/71
  - S 17: Ep 13 Gold Train: The Bullet (2)
    12/6/71
  - S 17: Ep 12 Gold Train: The Bullet (1)
    11/29/71
- Gunsmoke
  Carl Jaekel
  - S 16: Ep 19 Jaekel
    2/1/71
Guest Star (89)

Role
- Showbiz Tonight
  Himself
  - S 201201: Ep 126 At The Daytime Emmys: Live From The Red Carpet
    6/23/12
  - S 201201: Ep 125 June 22, 2012
    6/22/12
- The Talk
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 53 Episode 53
    1/14/11
- ESPN First Take
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 98 August 19, 2010
    8/19/10
- TMZ on TV
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 296 Episode #3.296
    8/17/10
- The Tavis Smiley Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 76 Ray Lines, Eric Braeden
    5/2/05
- Soapography
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 10 Hickland/Braeden
    9/11/04
- Soap Talk
  Self
  - S 3: Ep 82 Episode 82.03
    7/28/04
- Hope & Faith
  Lance Taylor
  - S 1: Ep 24 Daytime Emmys (1)
    5/14/04
  - S 1: Ep 25 Daytime Emmys (2)
    5/14/04
- Politically Incorrect
  Self
  - S 9: Ep 179 Gilbert Gottfried, Lori Waters, Sean Young, Eric Braeden
    6/7/02
  - S 9: Ep 97 Boots Riley, Erin Shannon, Harland Williams, Eric Braeden
    1/30/02
  - S 9: Ep 17 Paul Provenza, Eric Braeden, Ann Coulter, Jerry Nachman
    9/25/01
- The Bold and the Beautiful
  Victor Newman
  - S 12: Ep 213 Ep. #2970
    1/26/99
- Live! with Kelly and Michael
  Himself
  - S 8: Ep 36 October 23, 1995
    10/23/95
- Diagnosis Murder
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 21 Death in the Daytime
    4/28/95
- The Nanny
  Frank Bradley
  - S 1: Ep 18 Sunday in the Park with Fran
    3/23/94
- Perry Mason
  David Morrison
  - S 12: Ep 1 A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives
    12/17/93
- One On One With John Tesh
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 151 April 22, 1992
    4/22/92
- Murder, She Wrote
  Col. Gerhardt Brunner
  - S 3: Ep 4 One White Rose For Death
    10/19/86
- Airwolf
  Nick Kincaid
  - S 3: Ep 22 Birds of Paradise
    3/29/86
- Murder, She Wrote
  Col.Gerhardt Brunner
- Airwolf
  Nicholas Kincaid
- Strike Force (1981)
  Dr. Van Keuran
  - S 1: Ep 15 The John Killer
    3/5/82
- Charlie's Angels
  John Reardon
  - S 5: Ep 13 Attack Angels
    6/3/81
- Hagen
  Miles
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    3/15/80
- Vegas
  Arthur Rollins
  - S 2: Ep 10 Classic Connection
    12/19/79
- A Man Called Sloane
  Crane
  - S 1: Ep 7 Collision Course
    11/17/79
- CHiPs (1983)
  Senator Larwin
  - S 2: Ep 15 Mait Team
    1/13/79
- Wonder Woman
  Donalsen
  - S 3: Ep 8 Skateboard Wiz
    11/24/78
- How the West Was Won
  Francis Britten
  - S 2: Ep 14 5/21/78
    5/21/78
  - S 2: Ep 13 5/14/78
    5/14/78
  - S 2: Ep 12 5/7/78
    5/7/78
  - S 2: Ep 11 4/30/78
    4/30/78
- Project UFO
  Paul Gerard
  - S 1: Ep 9 Sighting 4009: The French Incident
    4/30/78
- The Six Million Dollar Man
  Viktor Cheraskin
  - S 5: Ep 12 Walk a Deadly Wing
    1/1/78
- Switch
  Franz Hausner
  - S 3: Ep 9 Thirty Thousand Witnesses
    12/26/77
- Switch
  Mike Jenkins
  - S 3: Ep 1 Net Loss
    9/23/77
- Most Wanted
  Cain
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Hit Man
    2/5/77
- Kojak
  Kenneth Krug
  - S 4: Ep 17 When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead
    1/18/77
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  Karl Heller
  - S 7: Ep 14 The Critic
    1/8/77
- Most Wanted
  Guest Star
- Cannon
  Carl Bruckner
  - S 5: Ep 21 Quasar Kill
    2/4/76
- Bronk
  Briscoe
  - S 1: Ep 16 The Deadlier Sex
    1/18/76
- Matt Helm
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 12 Panic
    12/27/75
- Wonder Woman
  Drangel
  - S 1: Ep 0 The New Original Wonder Woman
    11/7/75
- Bronk
  Guest Star
- Barbary Coast
  Bristol
  - S 1: Ep 2 Crazy Cats
    9/15/75
- Barnaby Jones
  Hans/ Jennings/ Raven
  - S 3: Ep 23 Jeopardy for Two
    4/1/75
- Caribe
  Captain Slater
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Mercenary
    3/10/75
- Get Christie Love
  Fred White
  - S 1: Ep 10 Bullet from the Grave
    11/20/74
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
  Goodleigh
  - S 6: Ep 7 A Fevered Angel
    10/22/74
- The F.B.I.
  Becker
  - S 9: Ep 18 Diamond Run
    3/10/74
- Gunsmoke
  William E. Talley
  - S 19: Ep 19 The Iron Blood of Courage
    2/18/74
- The Magician
  Nelson Paradine
  - S 1: Ep 15 The Illusion of Black Gold
    2/11/74
- The Six Million Dollar Man
  Viktor Cheraskin*
- Banacek
  Paul Bolitho
  - S 2: Ep 4 The Vanishing Chalice
    1/15/74
- Kojak
  Guest Star
- The Six Million Dollar Man
  Arlen Findletter
  - S 1: Ep 3 Wine, Women and War
    10/20/73
- Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
  Mike Benson
  - S 3: Ep 5 N is for Nightmare
    10/17/73
- Barnaby Jones
  Steven Kingston
  - S 1: Ep 5 Perchance to Kill
    3/11/73
- Hawaii Five-O
  Djebara
  - S 5: Ep 23 The Diamond That Nobody Stole
    3/6/73
- McCloud
  Ravic
  - S 3: Ep 5 The Million Dollar Roundup
    2/4/73
- Assignment Vienna
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 5 There Was An Old Woman
    1/13/73
- Mannix
  Viktor Gruniev
  - S 5: Ep 5 Woman in the Shadows
    10/13/71
- Bearcats
  Colonel Reinart
  - S 1: Ep 3 Dos Gringos
    9/30/71
- O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
  Vincent
  - S 1: Ep 1 Operation: Big Store
    9/17/71
- The F.B.I.
  Nicholas Blok
  - S 6: Ep 11 The Target
    12/6/70
- The Young Rebels
  Major Zanker
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Hostages
    11/8/70
- Hawaii Five-O
  Klaus Marberg
  - S 3: Ep 3 The Second Shot
    9/30/70
- Hawaii Five-O
  Dr. Paul Farrar
  - S 2: Ep 6 A Bullet for McGarrett
    10/29/69
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
  Guest Star
- Hawaii Five-O
  Dr Paul Farrar
- Garrison's Gorillas
  Frank Miller
  - S 1: Ep 25 The War Diamonds
    3/5/68
- Run for Your Life
  David Navan
  - S 3: Ep 21 Strategy of Terror
    2/15/68
  - S 1: Ep 10 A Girl Named Sorrow
    11/22/65
- Mission: Impossible
  Colonel Marcus von Frank
  - S 2: Ep 14 Echo of Yesterday
    12/10/67
- Jericho (1966)
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 16 A Switch In Time
    1/5/67
- Mission: Impossible
  Andrei Fetyukov
  - S 1: Ep 14 The Short Tail Spy
    12/17/66
- The Virginian
  Augustin
  - S 4: Ep 28 No Drums, No Trumpets
    4/6/66
- Twelve O'Clock High
  Major Bentz
  - S 2: Ep 28 Day of Reckoning
    3/28/66
- Run for Your Life
  Janos Takacs
  - S 1: Ep 5 How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit
    10/18/65
- Twelve O'Clock High
  Captain Zoller
  - S 2: Ep 2 R/X for a Sick Bird
    9/20/65
- Run for Your Life
  Eric Horst
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Cold, Cold War Of Paul Bryan
    9/13/65
- Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Gerd Hoffman (as Hans Gudegast)
  - S 2: Ep 26 The Safe House
    5/20/65
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Manfred Scharff
  - S 2: Ep 17 The War and Eric Kurtz
    3/5/65
- Combat!
  Ecktmann [as Hans Gudegast]
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Hostages
    1/28/64
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Kurt Krug
  - S 1: Ep 4 Four Kings
    11/1/63
- Combat!
  German Vehicle Commander [as Hans Gudegast]
  - S 2: Ep 7 Doughboy
    10/29/63
- Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Gerd Hoffman
- Combat!
  Hans Grubber
  - S 1: Ep 28 The Sniper
    4/16/63
- Combat!
  Drunken German Soldier
  - S 1: Ep 25 The Quiet Warrior
    3/26/63
- Combat!
  (uncredited)
  - S 1: Ep 22 Night Patrol
    3/5/63
- The Gallant Men
  Radio Operator
  - S 1: Ep 7 And the End of Evil Things
    11/16/62
- Gunsmoke
  Carl Jaekel
- Gunsmoke
  Jack Sinclair
- Gunsmoke
  William Talley
Special Guest Star (2)

Role
- How I Met Your Mother
  Robin Scherbatsky, Sr.
  - S 4: Ep 6 Happily Ever After
    11/3/08
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  Bernhardt Stieglitz
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Werewolf
    11/1/74
Producer (1)

Role
- The Man Who Came Back
  Producer
  2008

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- Eric married his college sweetheart, Dale Russell, in 1964. They have one son, Christian Gudegast.
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- Eric received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 20, 2007.
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- In high school, in addition to excelling in track and field, Eric discovered he had a natural facility for reading and reciting poems and other classic texts.
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- Eric stands at 6 Feet 2 Inches.
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- Eric is very athletic, at one time playing semi-pro soccer.
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- Eric won the People's Choice award in 1993 for his work in Daytime television.
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- Eric and Melody Thomas Scott better known as his wife Nicky on The Young and the Restless hosted the Daytime Emmy's on May 22nd 1996.
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- Eric was a big supporter for John Kerry ever since the early days in his campaign race.
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- Eric won a daytime Emmy for his work on The Young and The Restless in 1998.
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- Eric Braeden: (on playing Victor in The Young and The Restless in an interview with Soap Opera Digest on April 21st 1987) I was skeptical about it working out. The character was too evil, but I became more and more pleased with the role as Victor evolved into someone with empathy and depth.
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- Eric Braeden (Eric on his dog in an interview with Soap Opera Digest on May 19, 1987): Maxi is a big German Shepherd who has a ferocious exterior but a kind disposition. He's more of a pussycat than Tiger (Braeden's cat).
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- Eric Braeden (on why he's stuck around in Genoa City on The Young and the Restless): I love to act - it's that simple. I've been happy with the past 20 years and have no reason to believe I will not be excited about the future evolution of my character.
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