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Eric Braeden
Bredenbek, Germany
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-winni…
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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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2018
Den of Thieves
Movie Ziggy Zerhusen
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2017
And the Winner Isn't
Movie Self
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2010
The Talk
TV show Self
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2008
The Man Who Came Back
Movie Reese Paxton
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2007
3055 Jean Leon
Movie Self
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2005
How I Met Your Mother
TV show Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
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2003
Hope & Faith
TV show Lance Taylor
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2002
WWE Unforgiven 2002
Movie Self
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1999
The Titanic Chronicles
Movie (voice)
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1998
Meet the Deedles
Movie Elton Deedle
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1997
Titanic
Movie John Jacob Astor
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Movie David Morrison
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1993
The Nanny
TV show Frank Bradley
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1993
Diagnosis: Murder
TV show Eric Braeden
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1990
Lucky Chances
TV show Dimitri Stanislopolous
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1990
The Ambulance
Movie The Doctor
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Col. Gerhardt Brunner
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1980
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie Leonard Nero
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1979
The Power Within
Movie Stephens
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1978
Vega$
TV show Arthur Rollins
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1978
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV show
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1978
Happily Ever After
Movie Ross Ford
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1978
Piranha
Movie Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
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1977
CHiPs
TV show
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1977
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Movie Bruno Von Stickle
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1977
Code Name: Diamond Head
Movie Ernest Graeber
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1977
How the West Was Won
TV show Francis Britten
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1976
Charlie's Angels
TV show John Reardon
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1975
Wonder Woman
TV show Donalsen
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1975
Death Scream
Movie Kosinsky
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1975
Matt Helm
TV show Forbes
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1975
Switch
TV show Mike Jenkins
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1975
Barbary Coast
TV show Bristol
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1975
Bronk
TV show
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1974
The Ultimate Thrill
Movie Roland Parlay
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1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV show Bernhardt Stieglitz
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1974
The Daytime Emmy Awards
TV show
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Victor Cheraskin
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1973
Death Race
Movie Stoeffer
