Eric Braeden

Eric Braeden
Braeden in 2013
Born
Hans-Jörg Gudegast

(1941-04-03) April 3, 1941 (age 83)
Bredenbek, Free State of Prussia, Germany
(present-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
EducationUniversity of Montana
OccupationActor
Years active1960–present
Spouse
Dale Russell
​
(m. 1966)​
ChildrenChristian Gudegast[1]
Websiteericbraeden.com

Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-American film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman 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 Colossus: The Forbin Project, as Dr. Otto Hasslein in 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.[2][3]

  1. ^ "My son CHRISTIAN GUDEGAST with EX UFC WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION CYRIL GANE and DUTCH K1 WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, RICO VERHOEVEN on set of my son's film DEN OF THIEVES 2!". facebook.com.
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  3. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 1998". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2009.