Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden | |
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Braeden in 2013 | |
| Born | Hans-Jörg Gudegast April 3, 1941 |
| Education | University of Montana |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Spouse |
Dale Russell (m. 1966) |
| Children | Christian Gudegast |
| Website | ericbraeden |
Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-American film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman (from 1980) on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project, as Dr. Otto Hasslein in 1971's Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless.