Hans Gudegast eventually landed on the name of Eric Braeden. Of this decision, he told CBS, “Eric is a family name, and Braeden is from the name of my village in Germany.

Eric Braeden, whose real name is Hans-Jörg Gudegast, has played powerful patriarch Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless for over 40 years. While Victor has romanced plenty of women in ...

Braeden, born Hans-Jörg Gudegast, has starred on the soap as Victor Newman for the majority of his marriage, having joined the cast in 1980. Through it all, the Emmy Award winner has remained ...

Before Victor Newman, before Eric Braeden, there was Hans-Jörg Gudegast. That is Braeden’s given name when he was born in 1941 in the northern German city of Bredenbek, where his dad was once ...

Eric Braeden, who was born in Germany in 1941 and moved to the United States in 1959, went by Hans-Jörg Gudegast throughout his early career.However, Braeden was forced to change his name after ...

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Eric Braeden and Dale Russell Gudegast have been married since 1966 Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Tatiana Gudegast, Eric Braeden, Dale Gudegast at the "I'll Be Damned" Book Signing at Barnes & Noble at ...