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

How I Met Your Mother

Murder, She Wrote

Diagnosis: Murder

The Nanny

Mannix

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O
All Movies (33)
- Den of Thieves2018 · as Ziggy Zerhusen
- And the Winner Isn't2017 · as Self
- The Man Who Came Back2008 · as Reese Paxton
- 3055 Jean Leon2007 · as Self
- WWE Unforgiven 20022002 · as Self
- The Titanic Chronicles1999 · as (voice)
- Meet the Deedles1998 · as Elton Deedle
- Titanic1997 · as John Jacob Astor
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives1993 · as David Morrison
- The Ambulance1990 · as The Doctor
- The Aliens Are Coming1980 · as Leonard Nero
- The Power Within1979 · as Stephens
- Happily Ever After1978 · as Ross Ford
- Piranha1978 · as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo1977 · as Bruno Von Stickle
- Code Name: Diamond Head1977 · as Ernest Graeber
- Death Scream1975 · as Kosinsky
- The Ultimate Thrill1974 · as Roland Parlay
- Death Race1973 · as Stoeffer
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War1973 · as Arlen Findletter
- Lady Ice1973 · as Peter Brinker
- Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John1973 · as Col. Gunter Kroll
- Intertect1973 · as Emhardt
- The Adulteress1973 · as Hank Baron
- The Judge and Jake Wyler1972 · as Anton Granicek
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes1971 · as Dr. Otto Hasslein
- Colossus: The Forbin Project1970 · as Dr Charles Forbin
- The Mask of Sheba1970 · as Dr. Roan Morgan
- Honeymoon with a Stranger1969 · as Frederico Caprio
- 100 Rifles1969 · as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
- Dayton's Devils1968 · as Max Eikhart
- Morituri1965 · as Radio Officer (uncredited)
- Operation Eichmann1961 · as Klaus
All TV Shows (62)
- The Talk2010 · as Self
- How I Met Your Mother2005 · as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
- Hope & Faith2003 · as Lance Taylor
- E! True Hollywood Story1996
- The Nanny1993 · as Frank Bradley
- Diagnosis: Murder1993 · as Eric Braeden
- Lucky Chances1990 · as Dimitri Stanislopolous
- Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
- Vega$1978 · as Arthur Rollins
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries1978
- CHiPs1977
- How the West Was Won1977 · as Francis Britten
- Charlie's Angels1976 · as John Reardon
- Wonder Woman1975 · as Donalsen
- Wonder Woman1975 · as Captain Drangel
- Matt Helm1975 · as Forbes
- Switch1975 · as Mike Jenkins
- Switch1975 · as Franz Hausner
- Barbary Coast1975 · as Bristol
- Bronk1975
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker1974 · as Bernhardt Stieglitz
- The Daytime Emmy Awards1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man1974 · as Victor Cheraskin
- Kojak1973 · as Kenneth Krug
- The Magician1973 · as Nelson Paradine
- The Young and the Restless1973 · as Victor Newman
- Barnaby Jones1973 · as Steven Kingston
- Banacek1972 · as Paul Bolitho
- The Rookies1972
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law1971 · as Mike Benson
- Cannon1971
- The Young Rebels1970
- McCloud1970 · as Ravik
- Marcus Welby, M.D.1969 · as Pastor Goodleigh
- Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Dr. Paul Farrar
- Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Klaus Marburg
- Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Djebara
- Mannix1967
- Garrison's Gorillas1967
- Mission: Impossible1966 · as Col. Markus von Frank
- Mission: Impossible1966 · as Andrei Fetyakov
- Jericho1966
- The Rat Patrol1966 · as Capt. Hans Dietrich
- Blue Light1966
- The F.B.I.1965 · as Nicholas Blok
- The F.B.I.1965 · as Becker
- Run for Your Life1965 · as Eric Horst
- Run for Your Life1965 · as Janos Takacs
- 12 O'Clock High1964 · as Maj. Gerhard Bentz
- Kraft Suspense Theatre1963 · as Gerd Hoffman
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963 · as Manfred Scharff
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963 · as Kurt Krug
- The Gallant Men1962
- Combat!1962 · as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
- Combat!1962 · as Hans Gruber
- Combat!1962 · as German Vehicle Commander
- Combat!1962 · as Ecktmann
- The Virginian1962 · as Augustin
- 77 Sunset Strip1958 · as German Soldier (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Carl Jaekel
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Jack Sinclair
- Gunsmoke1955 · as William E. Talley