Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden was born in Bredenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on April 3rd, 1941 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 83, Eric Braeden biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born American film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman on the 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, 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.
Early life
Braeden was born Hans-Jörg Gudegast in Bredenbek, Germany (near Kiel), a city in northern Germany where his father was once mayor. In his autobiography, titled I'll Be Damned, published by Harper Collins in 2017, Braeden revealed that he was a survivor of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff sinking. The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German armed military transport ship which was sunk on January 30, 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13, in the Baltic Sea, while evacuating German civilian and military refugees. It is estimated that 9,400 people died. It was the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history. He emigrated to the United States in 1959, and attended the University of Montana, Missoula.
Personal life
In 1958 Braeden, under his birth name Hans-Jörg Gudegast, won the German National Team Championship in Track and Field (discus, shot-put and javelin with the Rendsburger TSV). Braeden later went on to win the 1973 National Challenge Cup as a fullback with the Jewish American soccer club Maccabi Los Angeles, scoring the winning goal in the semifinal game and a penalty kick in the championship game against Chicago Croatian. In the 1970s/80s he could often be seen boxing at the Hoover Street and Broadway gyms in L.A. He is a tennis player and has participated in many celebrity events.
He married his college sweetheart Dale Russell in 1966. His son, Christian, is a director who created the film Den of Thieves, starring Gerard Butler.
Career
During his first two decades in America, Braeden earned numerous television and film credits, and he has appeared in 120 films. His earliest credits were under his birth name, Hans Gudegast.
In the 1960s, he appeared in many episodes of television's longest-running World War II drama (1962–1967) Combat! During the war II series, he played a German soldier. He appeared in a film starring Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in 1965, and he appeared in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. T.H.R.U.S.H.H. Mr. Oakes in "The Discotheque Affair" is a television show that airs in the United States. episode five, season two.
In 1966, he appeared in episode 28, "Day of Reckoning" of the classic 1949 war film with the same name) and also appeared in an episode of the 1966 espionage drama series Blue Light. On the TV series The Rat Patrol (1966–1968), his main character for the next two years was his regular starring role playing German Hauptmann (Captain) Hans Dietrich.
He appeared in the 1969 western 100 Rifles with Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, and Jim Brown (noted for the first big-screen interracial love scene between Welch and Brown), once more portraying a violent German military officer opposite Fernando Lamas. This was his last credit under his birth name.
Eric Braeden, who played him in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), was when he first took the stage name Eric Braeden. Lew Wasserman of Universal Pictures told him that no one would be allowed to act in an American film unless he or she had a German name. Braeden Borrows was taken from his hometown of Bredenbek, and after much thought.
Other film appearances in the 1970s included Dr. Otto Hasslein in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Bruno von Stickle, the arrogant yet powerful race car driver in Walt Disney's 1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. He appeared on several television shows, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as well as numerous episodes of the long-running CBS western series Gunsmoke.
In addition to many episodic roles, Braeden appeared in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic as Colonel John Jacob Astor IV. "Engling the scene in Titanic, in which his character drowned, was one of the scariest times in this industry for me," Braeden told Cindy Elavsky.
On the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, he was given the role of self-made business magnate Victor Newman. The position was initially scheduled for a 26-week term. His character convicted his wife's lover and made the story popular, turning him into a hate-to-hate villain, which was also extended.
In 1998, Braeden was named a Daytime Emmy for his services. In February 2017, he marked his 37th anniversary with the show. Victor onscreen celebrated Braeden's 40th anniversary on television in 2020.
Braeden, The Young and the Restless, and labor talks came to a halt in October 2009, and media reports suggested that he might leave the show. Braeden had inked a new three-year contract and would remain with the show, despite agreeing to a salary decrease, which was the original concern.