Eric Braeden
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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TV Series
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Garrison's Gorillas
7.8
CHiPs
6.819
The Gallant Men
6
How I Met Your Mother
8.142
The Rookies
6.8
Hope & Faith
5.382
Kraft Suspense Theatre
5.3
The F.B.I.
5.5
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
The Nanny
8.066
E! True Hollywood Story
8.103
Charlie's Angels
6.7
Mannix
6.7
Kojak
6.996
Gunsmoke
6.6
Combat!
7.6
Wonder Woman
7
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Cannon
6.5
Diagnosis: Murder
7.071
Vega$
7
Run for Your Life
7.2
Switch
6.7
The Virginian
6.5
McCloud
7.1
The Young Rebels
4.5
The Young and the Restless
7
Barbary Coast
5
The Rat Patrol
7.2
The Daytime Emmy Awards
10
Jericho
6.5
77 Sunset Strip
6.7
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
5
Blue Light
5
Bronk
6.2
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
7.571
Matt Helm
7.4
The Magician
6.7
Lucky Chances
6.3
The F.B.I.
5.5
Combat!
7.6
Combat!
7.6
Combat!
7.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Run for Your Life
7.2
The Six Million Dollar Man
7.2
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Switch
6.7
Barnaby Jones
6.9
Banacek
8.6
Wonder Woman
7
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
How the West Was Won
6.911
12 O'Clock High
7.263
Movies
Titanic
7.906
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6.372
Piranha
5.946
Meet the Deedles
4.444
Operation Eichmann
6
Colossus: The Forbin Project
6.886
100 Rifles
5.9
The Man Who Came Back
4.7
Dayton's Devils
1
The Ambulance
5.9
The Adulteress
1
Code Name: Diamond Head
3
The Aliens Are Coming
3.9
3055 Jean Leon
7.3
Honeymoon with a Stranger
6.5
Death Race
4.4
Happily Ever After
0
The Mask of Sheba
0
WWE Unforgiven 2002
6.4
The Ultimate Thrill
4.5
The Judge and Jake Wyler
3
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
0
And the Winner Isn't
5.7
Den of Thieves
6.852
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
5.914
The Power Within
0
Lady Ice
4.842
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
6.5
Morituri
6.8
Death Scream
6.6
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
6.6
Intertect
0
The Titanic Chronicles
7