Eric Braeden
Biological Information
Full name	Eric Braedon (English name) Hans Jörg Gudegast (birth name)
Gender	Male
Born	April 3, 1941 (age 71)
Birthplace	Bredenbek, Germany
Background Information
Romances	Dale Russell Gudegast (m. 1966–present)
Occupation	Actor
Active	1960–present

Eric Braeden (born Hans Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-American film and television actor, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, and as John Jacob Astor IV in James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic. Braeden won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman.

Contents 1 Early Life 2 Career 3 Personal Life 4 Filmography 5 Gallery 6 External links

Early LifeEdit

Braeden was born Hans Jörg Gudegast in Bredenbek, Germany (near Kiel), where his father was once mayor. He immigrated to the USA in 1959. In the United States, Braeden attended The University of Montana in Missoula.

CareerEdit

Personal LifeEdit

Braeden is regarded as a very good tennis player. He and his wife, Dale Gudegast, were witnesses at the wedding of Bob Crane and Sigrid Valdis while on the set of Hogan's Heroes. Their son, Christian Gudegast, is a screenwriter who co-wrote the film A Man Apart, which starred Vin Diesel and was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2003.

Actor Clarence Williams III and former boxer Ken Norton are two of his best friends.

FilmographyEdit

Year	Title	Role
1963	Combat!	Hans Gruber
1965	Combat!	Ecktmann
1966–1967	Mission: Impossible	Andrei Fetyakov , Marcus von Frank
1966–1968	The Rat Patrol	Hauptmann (Captain) Hans Dietrich
1969	Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Paul Farrar
	100 Rifles	Lt. Franz Von Klemme
1970	Hawaii Five-O	Klaus Marburg
	Colossus: The Forbin Project	Dr. Charles A. Forbin
	The Mask of Sheba	Dr. Morgan
1970	The Young Rebels	Major Zanker
1971	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	Dr. Otto Hasslein
1971	Gunsmoke's episode Jaekel	Carl Jaekel
1971	Bearcats!	Col. Reinert
1972	The Judge and Jake Wyler	Anton Granicek
1972	Hawaii Five-O	Djebara
1973	The Adulteress	Hank Baron
	The Six Million Dollar Man	Findletter
1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Bernhardt Stieglitz
	Banacek	Paul Bolitho
	The Ultimate Thrill	Roland
1975	Wonder Woman	Evan Donaldson
1977	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Karl Heller
	Kojak	Kenneth Krug
	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo	Bruno von Stickle
1979	CHiPs	Senator Lerwin
1980–present	The Young and the Restless	Victor Newman
1981	Charlie's Angels	John Reardon
1990	Lucky/Chances	Dimitri Stanislopolous
1990	The Ambulance	The Doctor
1994	The Nanny	Frank Bradley, Sr.
1995	Diagnosis: Murder	Himself
1997	Titanic	John Jacob Astor
1998	Meet the Deedles	Elton Deedle
1999	The Bold and the Beautiful	Victor Newman
2008	The Man Who Came Back	Reese Paxton
2008	How I Met Your Mother	Robin Scherbatsky, Sr.

GalleryEdit

External linksEdit

• Eric Braeden on Wikipedia
• Eric Braeden at the Internet Movie Database

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