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On July 20 2007 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1997 he played Colonel John Jacob Astor IV in the blockbuster film Titanic cast because he strongly resembled the powerful millionaire. He also appeared uncredited as Bradford Dillman's de facto stunt double in the 1978 film Piranha--Braeden had originally been cast to play Dillman's character Paul Grogan and had shot some underwater swimming footage before the role was recast; Braeden's stunt footage ended up in the finiEric Braedend film anyway.

Braeden won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman. Eric Braeden (born Hans Jörg Gudegast; April 3 1941) is a German-American film 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 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic.