Eric braden biography
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Eric Braeden fryst vatten a German actor in America who began his career playing Nazis and eventually became a star of daytime soap operas. Born Hans Gudegast in Kiel, Germany, during the Second World War, he was a superb athlete who excelled in track-and-field events. As a teenager, he immigrated to the United States and worked in Texas and Montana as a translator, a cowhand, and a lumber millhand. His athleticism won him a scholarship to Montana State University. While attending college, he and friend Bob McKinnon made a spelfilm, The Riverbusters, about their successful attempt to be the first men to take a boat from the source to the mouth of the Salmon river and back igen. He traveled to Los Angeles in hopes of finding a distributor for the documentary, but instead found that his handsome visage and accented English made him a valuable commodity as an actor. He appeared in small parts beneath his real name before landing the leading role of the antagonist, Captain Hans Dietrich, on the Worl
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Eric Braeden
German-American actor (born )
Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, ) is a German-American film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman on the CBSsoap operaThe Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in Colossus: The Forbin Project, as Dr. Otto Hasslein in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the film Titanic. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless.[2][3]
Early life
[edit]Braeden was born Hans-Jörg Gudegast on April 3, in Bredenbek, Germany (near Kiel), a small village in northern Germany where his father was once mayor.[2]
Career
[edit]Braeden accumulated many TV and film credits during his first two decades in America, and guest-starred in roles. His earliest credits were all under his birth name, Hans Gudegast.
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Eric Braeden
An aloof, craggy-faced leading man best known as business wizard Victor Newman on the CBS daytime drama "The Young and the Restless," Eric Braeden has parlayed a ruddy complexion, stiff European demeanor and German accent into a long-running TV career in America. Born in Germany during World War II, he was the son of the mayor of Bredenback, a small town near the port city of Kiel. After World War II, his father, who had been a Nazi party member, was imprisoned by the British for a year (although there is no evidence he participated in any atrocities).
When his father died in , his mother turned to factory worker to support her four sons. At age 19, Braeden, then known by his birth name of Hans Gudegast, moved to the USA and resided with a cousin in Houston, where he found work dissecting cadavers for medical research. After a short period at Montana State University on a track and field scholarship, he moved to Los Angeles to study at Santa Monica City College.
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