ACTOR

Eric Braeden

1941 - Today

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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 CBS 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, as Dr. Otto Hasslein in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Braeden has received more than 4,871,792 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Eric Braeden is the 2,425th most popular actor (down from 1,713th in 2019), the 3,177th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Actor.

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  • 4.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Eric Braeden ranks 2,425 out of 13,578. Before him are Aracy Balabanian, Tia Carrere, Michael Winslow, Shannon Lee, Gloria Foster, and Antonio Moreno. After him are Fritz Muliar, Jeffrey Jones, Akira Takarada, Jeff Fahey, Brian Thompson, and Nina Foch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Eric Braeden ranks 235. Before him are Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza, Robert Foxworth, Pola Raksa, Dennis Sullivan, Stephen Krashen, and Júlia Várady. After him are Eugène Terre'Blanche, Ricardo Piglia, David Lewis, Margitta Gummel, Mike Love, and Dirk Frimout.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eric Braeden ranks 3,177 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis Paulsen (1833), Ferdinand Reich (1799), Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479), Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887), Franz Nissl (1860), and Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796). After him are Paul Julius Möbius (1853), Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910), William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), and Theo Jörgensmann (1948).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Eric Braeden ranks 77. Before him are Marcel Ophüls (1927), Elmar Wepper (1944), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Cornelia Froboess (1943), Meryem Uzerli (1983), and Michael Ballhaus (1935). After him are Susan Blakely (1948), Henny Porten (1890), Sandra Hüller (1978), Anita Berber (1899), Horst Frank (1929), and Carola Neher (1900).

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