Eric Braeden

Eric Braeden

Birthday: 1941-04-03

Place of birth: Bredenbek, Germany

Also known as: Hans-Jörg Gudegast

imdb_id: nm0000967

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.

Played in movies:

Titanic

Score: 7.9

3055 Jean Leon

Score: 7.3

The Titanic Chronicles

Score: 7.0

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Score: 6.9

Den of Thieves

Score: 6.9

Morituri

Score: 6.8

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives

Score: 6.6

Death Scream

Score: 6.6

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Score: 6.5

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

Score: 6.4

WWE Unforgiven 2002

Score: 6.4

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Score: 6.4

Operation Eichmann

Score: 6.0

Piranha

Score: 6.0

100 Rifles

Score: 5.9

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Score: 5.9

The Ambulance

Score: 5.8

And the Winner Isn't

Score: 5.7

The Man Who Came Back

Score: 4.9

Lady Ice

Score: 4.8

Meet the Deedles

Score: 4.5

The Ultimate Thrill

Score: 4.5

Death Race

Score: 4.4

The Aliens Are Coming

Score: 3.6

The Judge and Jake Wyler

Score: 3.0

Code Name: Diamond Head

Score: 3.0

The Adulteress

Score: 1.0

Dayton's Devils

Score: 1.0

Intertect

Score: 0.0

The Power Within

Score: 0.0

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

Score: 0.0

The Mask of Sheba

Score: 0.0

Happily Ever After

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Daytime Emmy Awards

Score: 10.0

Banacek

Score: 8.6

How I Met Your Mother

Score: 8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

The Nanny

Score: 8.1

Garrison's Gorillas

Score: 7.8

Combat!

Score: 7.7

Combat!

Score: 7.7

Combat!

Score: 7.7

Combat!

Score: 7.7

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Score: 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Matt Helm

Score: 7.4

The Six Million Dollar Man

Score: 7.3

Run for Your Life

Score: 7.2

The Rat Patrol

Score: 7.2

Run for Your Life

Score: 7.2

12 O'Clock High

Score: 7.2

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

McCloud

Score: 7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Score: 7.1

Wonder Woman

Score: 7.0

Wonder Woman

Score: 7.0

Kojak

Score: 7.0

The Young and the Restless

Score: 7.0

Vega$

Score: 7.0

How the West Was Won

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

CHiPs

Score: 6.8

The Rookies

Score: 6.8

Switch

Score: 6.7

The Magician

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Switch

Score: 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

Jericho

Score: 6.5

Cannon

Score: 6.5

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Score: 6.3

Lucky Chances

Score: 6.3

Bronk

Score: 6.2

The Gallant Men

Score: 6.0

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Hope & Faith

Score: 5.4

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Score: 5.3

Blue Light

Score: 5.0

The Eddie Capra Mysteries

Score: 5.0

Barbary Coast

Score: 5.0

The Young Rebels

Score: 4.5