Braeden, Eric

Braeden, Eric	Gender: M
Birthname	Hans-Jörg Gudegast
born on	3 April 1941 at 21:00 (= 9:00 PM )
Place	Kiel, Germany, 54n20, 10e08
Timezone	CEST h2e (is daylight saving time)
	Rodden Rating C
	Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	13°38' 29°38 Asc. 24°57'

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Eric Braeden (2013)
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Biography

German-American film and television actor best known for playing love-to-hate villain Victor Newman on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless since 1980. His other major roles include Hans Dietrich in the TV series The Rat Patrol (1966–1968), Dr. Charles Forbin in sci-fi thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), Dr. Otto Hasslein in sci-fi movie Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), and 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.

In 1958, Braeden, under his birth name Hans-Jörg Gudegast, won the Germany 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 Los Angeles. He was a tennis player and has participated in many celebrity events.

In April 2023, Braeden announced he was diagnosed with "high-grade" bladder cancer. He discovered his cancer diagnosis while recovering from knee-replacement surgery and while undergoing prostate-related treatment. In August 2023, Braeden revealed he was cancer-free.

He married his college sweetheart Dale Russell in 1966. Their son, Christian Gudegast, is a director who created the film Den of Thieves, starring Gerard Butler.

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associate relationship with Disaster: Palisades Fire (born 7 January 2025). Notes: Home destroyed

associate relationship with Entertainment: The Young and the Restless (born 26 March 1973). Notes: Played Victor Newman, 1980–

role played of/by Astor, John Jacob IV (born 13 July 1864). Notes: 1997 film "Titanic"

Events

Relationship : Marriage 1966 (Dale Russell)

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from the book, I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama, by Eric Braeden (New York, NY: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2017), page 5:

"I can't imagine my mother's fear on the night I was born. It was April 3, 1941. She and two hundred other women, all waiting to give birth, were gathered in the dark, airless basement of a hospital in Kiel, Germany. Bombs from the Allied forces of World War II thundered around them, sirens screamed, the ground shook with one explosion after another, and she must have felt so alone and so terrified as she lay there praying for the safe delivery of her child."

A birth time of 9 PM is speculative.

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