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Eric Braeden

1941 - Today

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Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-American film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman (from 1980) in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project, as Dr. Otto Hasslein in 1971's 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Braeden is the 2,191st most popular actor (up from 2,423rd in 2019), the 2,858th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,177th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Eric Braeden ranks 2,191 out of 13,578. Before him are Andrés García, Ellen Pompeo, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Angela Winkler, Tuba Büyüküstün, and Jacky Cheung. After him are Alan Dale, Jonathan Bailey, George Wendt, Richard Bohringer, Ray Wise, and Kristofer Hivju.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Eric Braeden ranks 231. Before him are Josep Maria Fusté, Harald Nielsen, Muhammad Mustafa Mero, Captain Beefheart, Yevhen Marchuk, and Andrés García. After him are George Pell, Wilson Pickett, Christopher Connelly, Jiří Raška, George P. Cosmatos, and Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eric Braeden ranks 2,860 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669), Stefan Bellof (1957), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877), Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1659), William, Prince of Wied (1845), and Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679), Helene Mayer (1910), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), and İlkay Gündoğan (1990).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Eric Braeden ranks 60. Before him are Marcel Ophüls (1927), Susan Blakely (1948), Gedeon Burkhard (1969), Carola Neher (1900), Sibel Kekilli (1980), and Angela Winkler (1944). After him are Greta Schröder (1891), Sebastian Koch (1962), Elga Andersen (1935), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), and Sonja Ziemann (1926).

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