Eric Braeden
| Eric Braeden | |
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At the 2013 Monte-Carlo Television Festival
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| Born |
Hans-Jörg Gudegast April 3, 1941 Bredenbek, Germany |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Spouse(s) | Dale Russell Gudegast (m. 1966; 1 child) |
| Website | ericbraeden |
Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German 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.
Braeden was born Hans-Jörg Gudegast in Bredenbek, Germany (near Kiel), where his father was once mayor. He was a small child escaping the Russian Army's advance on East Prussia in World War II, January 30, 1945 when the ship on which his family was evacuated, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, was sunk with 9,400 killed, the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history. He emigrated to the USA in 1959. In the United States, Braeden attended the University of Montana, Missoula on a Track and Field Scholarship (discus, javelin, shotput).
Braeden accumulated many TV and film credits during his first two decades in America, and guest starred in 120 roles. His earliest credits were all under his birth name, Hans Gudegast.
During the 1960s he appeared in several episodes of TV's longest-running World War II drama (1962–67) Combat!, always playing a German soldier. In 1965 he appeared in a film called Morituri starring Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner, and guest-starred in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as T.H.R.U.S.H. agent Mr. Oakes in "The Discotheque Affair"; episode 5, season two.
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