Eric Braeden

Eric Braeden
Birth name	Hans Jorg Gudegast
Born	April 3, 1941 in Kiel, Germany
Sometimes credited as	Hans Gudegast
Notable Roles	Victor Newman in The Young and the Restless
Notable Episodes
Awards	1 Daytime Emmy Award 3 Soap Opera Digest Awards Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Eric Braeden is a German-American actor best known currently for his role as Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless.

Roles

Starring Roles

Series	Role	Year(s)	Season(s)
The Rat Patrol (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Hans Dietrich	1966–1968	1	2
The Young and the Restless	Victor Newman	1980–

Guest Starring Roles

Series	Role	Episode	Airdate
The Gallant Men (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Radio Operator	1x07 - And the End of Evil Things	November 16, 1962
Combat! (credited as Hans Gudegast)	German Soldier	1x08 - The Celebrity	November 27, 1962
Combat! (credited as Hans Gudegast)	German	1x22 - Night Patrol	March 5, 1963
Combat! (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Drunken German Soldier	1x25 - The Quiet Warrior	March 26, 1963
Combat! (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Hans Gruber	1x28 - The Sniper	April 16, 1963
Combat! (credited as Hans Gudegast)	German Vehicle Commander	2x07 - Doughboy	October 29, 1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Kurt Krug	1x05 - Four Kings	November 1, 1963
Combat! (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Ecktmann	2x20 - The Hostages	January 28, 1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Manfred Scharff	2x17 - The War and Eric Kurtz	March 5, 1965
Kraft Suspense Theatre (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Gerd Hoffman	2x26 - The Safe House	May 20, 1965
Run for Your Life (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Eric Horst	1x01 - The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan	September 13, 1965
12 O'Clock High (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Capt. Zoller	2x02 - Rx for a Sick Bird	September 20, 1965
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Mr. Oakes	2x05 - The Discotheque Affair	October 15, 1965
Run for Your Life (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Janos Takacs	1x05 - How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit	October 18, 1965
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (credited as Hans Gudegast)		1x09 - Vive La Kiwi	November 14, 1965
Run for Your Life (credited as Hans Gudegast)	David Navan	1x10 - A Girl Named Sorrow	November 22, 1965
12 O'Clock High (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Maj. Bentz	2x28 - Day of Reckoning	March 28, 1966
The Virginian (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Augustin	4x28 - No Drums, No Trumpets	April 6, 1966
Blue Light (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Ealing	1x15 - The Key to the Code	May 4, 1966
Mission: Impossible (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Andrei Fetyakov	1x14 - The Short Tail Spy	December 17, 1966
Jericho (credited as Hans Gudegast)		1x15 - Jackal of Diamonds	January 5, 1967
Mission: Impossible (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Col. Markus von Frank	2x14 - Echo of Yesterday	December 10, 1967
Run for Your Life (credited as Hans Gudegast)	David Navan	3x21 - Strategy of Terror	February 15, 1968
Garrison's Gorillas (credited as Hans Gudegast)	Frank Miller	1x25 - The War Diamonds	March 5, 1968
Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Paul Farrar	2x06 - A Bullet for McGarrett	October 29, 1969
Hawaii Five-O	Klaus Marburg	3x03 - The Second Shot	September 30, 1970
The Young Rebels	Major Zanker	1x08 - The Hostages	November 8, 1970
The F.B.I.	Nicholas Blok	6x11 - The Target	December 6, 1970
Gunsmoke	Carl Jaekel	16x19 - Jaekel	February 1, 1971
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury	Vincent	1x01 - Operation: Big Store	September 17, 1971
Bearcats!	Col. Reinert	1x03 - Dos Gringos	September 30, 1971
Mannix	Viktor Gruniev	5x05 - Woman in the Shadows	October 13, 1971
Gunsmoke	Jack Sinclair	17x12 - Gold Train: The Bullet (1)	November 29, 1971
Gunsmoke	Jack Sinclair	17x13 - Gold Train: The Bullet (2)	December 6, 1971
Gunsmoke	Jack Sinclair	17x14 - Gold Train: The Bullet (3)	December 13, 1971
Cade's County	Karl Verboeck	1x24 - The Witness	April 9, 1972
Marcus Welby, M.D.		4x04 - In Sickness and in Health	October 3, 1972
Assignment Vienna		1x05 - There Was an Old Woman	January 13, 1973
McCloud	Ravik	3x05 - The Million Dollar Roundup	February 4, 1973
Hawaii Five-O	Djebara	5x23 - The Diamond That Nobody Stole	March 6, 1973
Barnaby Jones	Steven Kingston	1x05 - Perchance to Kill	March 11, 1973
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	Mike Benson	3x05 - N Is for Nightmare	October 17, 1973
Banacek	Paul Bolitho	2x04 - The Vanishing Chalice	January 15, 1974
The Magician	Nelson Paradine	1x15 - The Illusion of Black Gold	February 11, 1974
Gunsmoke	William Talley	19x19 - The Iron Blood of Courage	February 18, 1974
The F.B.I.	Becker	9x18 - Diamond Run	March 10, 1974
Marcus Welby, M.D.		6x07 - A Fevered Angel	October 22, 1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Bernhardt Stieglitz	1x05 - The Werewolf	November 1, 1974
Get Christie Love	Fred White	1x10 - Bullet from the Grave	November 20, 1974
The Rookies	Jurzyck	3x12 - The Assassin	December 9, 1974
Caribe	Captain Slater	1x04 - The Mercenary	March 10, 1975
Barnaby Jones	'Hans'/Jennings/Raven	3x23 - Jeopardy for Two	April 1, 1975
Barbary Coast	Bristol	1x02 - Crazy Cats	September 15, 1975
Wonder Woman	Captain Drangel	1x01 - The New Original Wonder Woman	November 7, 1975
Matt Helm	Forbes	1x12 - Panic	December 27, 1975
Bronk		1x16 - The Deadlier Sex	January 18, 1976
Cannon	Carl Bruckner	5x21 - The Quasar Kill	February 4, 1976
The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Karl Heller	7x14 - The Critic	January 8, 1977
Kojak	Kenneth Krug	4x17 - When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead	January 18, 1977
Most Wanted		1x12 - The Hit Men	February 5, 1977
Switch	Mike Jenkins	3x01 - Net Loss	September 23, 1977
Switch	Franz Hausner	3x09 - Thirty Thousand Witnesses	December 26, 1977
Project U.F.O.	Paul Gerard	1x09 - Sighting 4009: The French Incident	April 30, 1978
Wonder Woman	Donalsen	3x08 - Skateboard Wiz	November 24, 1978
CHiPs	Senator Larwin	2x15 - Mait Team	January 13, 1979
A Man Called Sloane	Crane	1x07 - Collision Course	November 17, 1979
Vega$	Arthur Rollins	2x10 - Classic Connection	December 19, 1979
Hagen		1x01 - Hagen	March 15, 1980
Charlie's Angels	John Reardon	5x13 - Attack Angels	June 3, 1981
Strike Force		1x15 - Lonely Ladies	March 5, 1982
Airwolf	Nick Kincaid	3x22 - Birds of Paradise	March 29, 1986
Murder, She Wrote	Col. Gerhardt Brunner	3x04 - One White Rose for Death	October 19, 1986
The Nanny	Frank Bradley	1x17 - Sunday in the Park with Fran	March 23, 1994
Diagnosis Murder	Himself	2x21 - Death in the Daytime	April 28, 1995
Hope & Faith	Lance Taylor	1x24/25 - Daytime Emmys (1)	May 14, 2004
How I Met Your Mother	Robin Sr.	4x06 - Happily Ever After	November 3, 2008

Awards and Accolades

Daytime Emmy Awards

(1 Win in 8 Nominations)

• Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (1998)

The Young and the Restless

Trivia

• Has appeared in two films related to the real-life tragedy of the sinking of Titanic - Titanic (1997) as John Jacob Astor and The Titanic Chronicles as J. Bruce Ismay.