<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> 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>
who plays victor in young and the restless
who plays victor in young and the restless
Eric Braeden ( born Hans - Jörg Gudegast
Eric Braeden ( born Hans - Jörg Gudegast