<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Dale Russell Gudegast (m . 1966; 1 child) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.ericbraeden.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Eric Braeden (born Hans - Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German - American film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in Colossus: The Forbin Project, 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 . </P> <P> Braeden was born Hans - Jörg Gudegast in Bredenbek, Germany (near Kiel), where his father was once mayor . He emigrated to the USA in 1959 . In the United States, Braeden attended the University of Montana, Missoula . </P>

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