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Eric Braeden
Born: 3rd Apr 1941 Bredenbek, Germany
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 82
Film: 33 (40%)
Television: 49 (60%)
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Filmography
2018
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the ... view
Character:
Ziggy Zerhusen
2017
A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, as the pair track down celebrities and industry ... view
Character:
Self
Oct 2010 (first aired)
A panel of well-known news and entertainment personalities discussing current events, pop culture, contemporary issues, family, celebrity and the tren ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2008
Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this trad ... view
Character:
Reese Paxton
2007
Ceferino Carrión left Spain as a stowaway on a freighter. When he arrived in Los Angeles was called Jean Leon, a man who constantly transformed himse ... view
Character:
Self
Sep 2005 (first aired)
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mot ... view
Character:
Robin Scherbatsky Sr. (1 ep.)
Sep 2003 (first aired)
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the ... view
Character:
Lance Taylor (2 ep.)
2002
Unforgiven (2002) was a PPV presented by Castrol GTX that took place on September 22, 2002, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. It was t ... view
Character:
Self
1999
"The Titanic Chronicles" is based on the 1912 Senate Hearings into the "Titanic" Disaster. The actual testimony is read by an international cast. This ... view
Character:
(voice)
1998
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge. ... view
Character:
Elton Deedle
1997
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fian ... view
Character:
John Jacob Astor
Aug 1996 (first aired)
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known pub ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1993
Anthony Caruso, an old friend of Perry Mason, comes to Denver on the request of Dee Morrison. She's married to famed photographer David Morrison, who ... view
Character:
David Morrison
Nov 1993 (first aired)
That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sass ... view
Character:
Frank Bradley (1 ep.)
Oct 1993 (first aired)
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders. ... view
Character:
Eric Braeden (1 ep.)
Oct 1990 (first aired)
Lucky Chances is a three-part 1990 television miniseries based on Jackie Collins' novels Chances (1981) and Lucky (1985), and produced by William Pete ... view
Character:
Dimitri Stanislopolous (3 ep.)
1990
One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the ... view
Character:
The Doctor
Sep 1984 (first aired)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ... view
Character:
Col. Gerhardt Brunner (1 ep.)
1980
A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans. ... view
Character:
Leonard Nero
1979
A prospective about a daredevil flyer, barnstorming for county fairs, who becomes a human dynamo after being struck by lightning and is menaced by ene ... view
Character:
Stephens
Sep 1978 (first aired)
Private detective Dan Tanna drives around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place f ... view
Character:
Arthur Rollins (1 ep.)
1978
Suzanne Somers appears in her first TV starring role in this romantic comedy about an aspiring singer torn between making the most of her one chance a ... view
Character:
Ross Ford
1978
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal. ... view
Character:
Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
Sep 1977 (first aired)
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorc ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1977
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie ... view
Character:
Bruno Von Stickle
1977
A failed Quinn Martin pilot for a series starring a Hawaii-based government counter intelligence agency run by the indomitable Aunt Mary. In this, his ... view
Character:
Ernest Graeber
Feb 1977 (first aired)
The Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West. ... view
Character:
Francis Britten (3 ep.)
Sep 1976 (first aired)
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Rec ... view
Character:
John Reardon (1 ep.)
Nov 1975 (first aired)
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess ... view
Character:
Donalsen (1 ep.)
Captain Drangel (1 ep.)
1975
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to h ... view
Character:
Kosinsky
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Matt Helm is an American mystery television series which aired on the ABC Network during the 1975-1976 season. The title character was played by Antho ... view
Character:
Forbes (1 ep.)
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a dece ... view
Character:
Mike Jenkins (1 ep.)
Franz Hausner (1 ep.)
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September ... view
Character:
Bristol (1 ep.)
Apr 1975 (first aired)
Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, Cali ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1974
At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder. ... view
Character:
Roland Parlay
Sep 1974 (first aired)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper ... view
Character:
Bernhardt Stieglitz (1 ep.)
May 1974 (first aired)
An annual awards ceremony in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1974 (first aired)
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman ... view
Character:
Victor Cheraskin (1 ep.)
1973
In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi t ... view
Character:
Stoeffer
Oct 1973 (first aired)
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ... view
Character:
Kenneth Krug (1 ep.)
1973
After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findletter, he accepts an offer of a holiday in the Bahama ... view
Character:
Arlen Findletter
Oct 1973 (first aired)
The Magician is an American television series that ran during the 1973–1974 season. It starred Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony "Tony" Blake, ... view
Character:
Nelson Paradine (1 ep.)
1973
An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels. ... view
Character:
Peter Brinker
1973
During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators. ... view
Character:
Col. Gunter Kroll
Mar 1973 (first aired)
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of ... view
Character:
Victor Newman (257 ep.)
1973
John McKennon, a former FBI agent who runs Intertect, an international investigative agency, is followed as he tackles various assignments. ... view
Character:
Emhardt
Jan 1973 (first aired)
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm ... view
Character:
Steven Kingston (1 ep.)
Character:
Hank Baron
1972
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation. ... view
Character:
Anton Granicek
Sep 1972 (first aired)
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotatin ... view
Character:
Paul Bolitho (1 ep.)
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1971 (first aired)
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1971
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans ... view
Character:
Dr. Otto Hasslein
Sep 1970 (first aired)
Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew p ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1970
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes ... view
Character:
Dr Charles Forbin
1970
Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia. ... view
Character:
Dr. Roan Morgan
Feb 1970 (first aired)
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a s ... view
Character:
Ravik (1 ep.)
1969
While on honeymoon with her husband in Spain, a woman wakes up one morning to find he has disappeared. After reporting it to the police, a man shows u ... view
Character:
Frederico Caprio
Sep 1969 (first aired)
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Youn ... view
Character:
Pastor Goodleigh (1 ep.)
1969
When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdu ... view
Character:
Lt. Franz Von Klemme
1968
Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal $2,500,000 from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader w ... view
Character:
Max Eikhart
Sep 1968 (first aired)
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired ... view
Character:
Dr. Paul Farrar (1 ep.)
Klaus Marburg (1 ep.)
Djebara (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed b ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
Garrison's Gorillas is an ABC TV series broadcast from 1967 to 1968; a total of 26 hour-long episodes were produced. It was inspired by the 1967 film ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1966 (first aired)
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of ... view
Character:
Col. Markus von Frank (1 ep.)
Andrei Fetyakov (1 ep.)
Sep 1966 (first aired)
Jericho is an American espionage series set during World War II. The series stars John Leyton, Don Francks and Marino Masé as secret agents, and aire ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Sep 1966 (first aired)
The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African ... view
Character:
Capt. Hans Dietrich (58 ep.)
Jan 1966 (first aired)
A U.S. double agent in WWII Germany infiltrates Nazi councils while evading Allied intelligence (publicly, he was a foreign correspondent who had reno ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1965 (first aired)
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the character ... view
Character:
Nicholas Blok (1 ep.)
Becker (1 ep.)
Sep 1965 (first aired)
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968 ... view
Character:
Eric Horst (2 ep.)
Janos Takacs (1 ep.)
1965
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for German ... view
Character:
Radio Officer (uncredited)
Sep 1964 (first aired)
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First com ... view
Character:
Maj. Gerhard Bentz (1 ep.)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
The Gallant Men is a 1962–1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in Wor ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American so ... view
Character:
Drunken German soldier (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Ecktmann (1 ep.)
German Vehicle Commander (1 ep.)
Hans Gruber (1 ep.)
Sep 1962 (first aired)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is ... view
Character:
Augustin (1 ep.)
1961
Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II. ... view
Character:
Klaus
Oct 1958 (first aired)
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office locate ... view
Character:
German Soldier (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Sep 1955 (first aired)
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place ... view
Character:
Carl Jaekel (1 ep.)
Jack Sinclair (3 ep.)
William E. Talley (1 ep.)