Biography of eric braeden
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Eric Braeden &#; A Biography
Born Hans-Jörg Gudegast on April 3, , in Kiel, Braeden grew up in nearby Bredenbek, Germany. As a high school student-athlete, his wins in discus, javelin, and shot-put contributed to his team winning the National German ungdom Championship.
Leaving his native Germany, Braeden emigrated to the US in He settled in Texas, where a cousin funnen him work as a translator. After a few months, he left for Montana, to work on the ranch of a fellow German ex-pat.
He earned a partial athletic scholarship to the University of Montana (then Montana State University) and worked part-time at a lumber mill. It was in Montana where Braeden met Bob McKinnon.
Not long after, McKinnon convinced him to join a sponsored motorboat trip up and down the treacherous Salmon River. The idea was to spelfilm a documentary of the journey and take it to California.
While Life magazine showed interest, the duo missed the publication’s deadline. They took their finished product, The Ri
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Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, )[1] is a German-Americanmovie and television actor, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the s TV series The Rat Patrol, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the film Titanic. Braeden won a Daytime Emmy Award in for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman.[1][2]
Personal life
[change | change source]Braeden was born in Bredenbek, Germany to German parents. Braeden was educated at the University of Montana. Braeden is married to Dale Russell Gudegast since and have two children together. Braeden currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
In April , Braeden announced he was diagnosed with "high-grade" bladder cancer.[3]
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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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