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The Young and The Restless spoilers and updates reveal Eric Braeden has enjoyed a successful career as a soap opera star, portraying Victor Newman on Y&r for many years. Yet, he recently revealed that he sometimes faces criticism for his profession; this revelation occurred during a discussion with several other well-known soap opera actors.

Eric Has Been On The CBS Soap Since 1980

Braeden was first offered the part of Victor Newman on Y&r in 1980, and this role was originally intended to last just a few months.

However, he became popular enough for his time on the show to be extended, and since then, fans have continued to see Braeden on the soap over the years.

The role has also earned him a Soap Opera Digest Award, a People’s Choice Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award; additionally, Braeden has worked on various projects throughout the years.

In 1997, he notably...

The Young and the Restless star Eric Braeden may be best known for his extensive role as Victor Newman in the long-running soap opera. However, alongside starring in Y&r, Eric Braeden also starred in the James Cameron blockbuster Titanic, portraying John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic who died when the actual ship sank in 1912.

Braeden appeared on Rebecca Budig and Greg Rikaart's new podcast, Soapy, and told his fellow soap stars about the differences between working on a film set, such as Titanic, compared to The Young and the Restless (via People). The veteran Young and the Restless cast member finds movie sets boring, whereas on a soap opera set, everything moves faster. As he said of his time on Titanic, "It's bloody boring." Braeden then went on to explain how other projects are just too slow for him.

People have no clue! Nighttime actors,...

The Young and The Restless spoilers and updates reveal Eric Braeden’s (Victor Newman) eye-opening net worth and episode earnings.

Having built a career over several decades, Braeden has garnered numerous awards and taken on a variety of roles; as a result, fans are curious about the actor’s net worth.

Eric’s Impressive Acting Resumé

Hans-Jörg Gudegast, known to the world as Eric Braeden, was born on April 3, 1941, in Germany; he eventually made the journey to the United States as a young adult.

During his initial twenty years in America, he launched his television career, landing early roles in shows such as Combat!, 12 O’Clock High, and Mission: Impossible.

One of his breakout performances was as Captain Hans Dietrich in The Rat Patrol, appearing the length of the series-under his real name, Hans Gudegast.

Following that success, he featured in notable series like Hawaii Five-o, The Young Rebels, Mannix,...

If you’ve been watching daytime television since the 1980s, you’re probably familiar with Eric Braeden’s commanding presence as Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless. This Emmy-winning actor has not only dominated soap operas but has also left his mark in films like Titanic and Escape from the Planet of the Apes.

Eric Braeden in The Young and the Restless | Credits: CBS

The veteran performer, who’s garnered numerous accolades including a People’s Choice Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, recently found himself in the headlines for two very different reasons. While he triumphantly announced his victory over cancer, fate had other plans as his luxurious Los Angeles home fell victim to the devastating Palisades Fire.

Let’s dive into the life and fortune of this legendary actor who’s been entertaining audiences for over six decades.

Net worth and income...

Eric Braeden had all the faith in the world that Titanic was going to be a bone fide box office success. The actor played John Jacob Astor IV in the film and told TV Insider that he always knew the movie would be a hit, even when others were doubtful. “I’m the only one who did,” he admitted. “And I remember being interviewed by [famed Variety writer] Army Archerd. He said, ‘Why are you the only one who says this is going to be a success? Everyone else is afraid it will sink 20th [Century Studios] and sink Paramount because it costs too much money.’ I said, ‘Very simple. It’s a soap opera, a very expensive soap opera. And I know something about soap operas.’” The Young & the Restless star spilled some secrets from the set, including the moment director James Cameron showed him the first cut of the movie. Everett Collection “My son,...

Eric Braeden's salary per episode of The Young and the Restless remains unknown, but his overall net worth is $20 million. Braeden renegotiated his Y&r contract in 2012, likely increasing his earnings, making him one of the richest soap opera stars. Braeden, born in Germany in 1941, has had a long and successful career, surviving the sinking of the Mv Wilhelm Gustloff during WWII.

Many The Young and the Restless fans want to know what Eric Braeden receives as his salary per episode, considering his veteran status on the soap opera and overall impressive net worth. Braeden began appearing on the long-running TV show in 1980 as Victor Newman. What some fans of The Young and the Restless may not know is that Victor was only supposed to be a guest character but Braeden's performance was so effective, they decided to keep him around, a sign of his talents as an actor.

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The sinking of the Titanic resulted in the loss of approximately 1,514 lives, with less than a third of the passengers surviving. Notable names, such as John Jacob Astor IV and Isidor and Ida Straus, were among those who died on the Titanic. There are numerous feature films and documentaries about the Titanic, including "A Night to Remember," "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and James Cameron's "Titanic."

With over 40 feature films and documentaries (not including the countless in-depth YouTube documentaries), the sinking of the Titanic remains a fascinating source of information for storytellers over a hundred years after the incident. While the disaster saw the most success on the screen in James Cameron's 1997 global phenomenon Titanic, the movie's combination of historical and fictional elements did not capture the true scope of the incident, arguably an impossible feat.

To scratch the surface of the tragedy aboard the Titanic, we look closer at...

Robert Douglas Spedden’s grave is located in his family plot, usually surrounded by freshly cut grass. The headstone is incredibly small and stub-like, so no matter how many times you’ve been to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, you’ve probably never noticed it before. You were maybe there to visit Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Samuel Morse, or any of the other 600,000 graves.

Spedden was a child who survived the sinking of the Titanic, famously depicted in Francis Browne’s photograph, where he’s standing on the ship’s deck playing with a spinning top.

Titanic featured a variety of characters from both the first and third-class sides of the ship, and many of them can be spotted at the end of the movie when Rose (Kate Winslet) returns to the Titanic in what is understood to be her version of heaven. In 1997, James Cameron brought the disaster drama movie Titanic, which at the time became the most expensive movie ever made and with good reason, as Cameron paid attention to every single detail while recreating the Titanic and telling the stories of Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet).

Taking the real-life sinking of the Rms Titanic as inspiration, Titanic tells the fictional love story of Jack and Rose and how they defended their romance from those who looked down on them, and along the way, they met and interacted with different characters from both first and third-class. At the end of Titanic,...

Although Titanic’s main story is fictional, it used the tragedy of the Rms Titanic as its basis, and as such, it also included characters based on real-life passengers of the ship, including the Titanic’s richest passenger – and here’s who it was. Although James Cameron has since made other visually outstanding movies, Titanic stands as one of his most ambitious and successful projects, mixing fiction with real-life elements and stories.

Titanic introduced the audience to Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), a first-class young woman, and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a third-class passenger, who met and fell in love onboard the ship. Jack and Rose had to defend their romance from those who wanted to keep them apart, but they also met people from the first-class side of the ship who were polite and even understanding of their bond. Among those first-class passengers Jack and Rose met was the...

(To celebrate "Titanic" and its impending 25th-anniversary re-release, we've put together a week of explorations, inquires, and deep dives into James Cameron's box office-smashing disaster epic.)

In 1912, the Titanic -- a ship that was called "unsinkable" -- hit an iceberg and sank, killing over 1,500 of the souls onboard. Some of those people were well-known business magnates, authors, and company owners. Many of those celebrities (some of whom survived) appeared as on-screen characters in James Cameron's 1997 epic film "Titanic." Some of them include Molly Brown (called "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"), played by Kathy Bates, business tycoon John Jacob Astor IV (Eric Braeden), Colonel Archibald Gracie IV (Bernard Fox), a writer who penned a book about the disaster, Benjamin Guggenheim (Michael Ensign) the mining titan, Isidor Straus (Lew Palter) and his wife Ida (Elsa Raven), the former owner of R.H. Macy and Company, among many others.

When the film came out,...

The late Aretha Franklin was one of The Young and the Restless’ biggest fans, which is ironic since Eric Braeden, who has played Victor Newman on the CBS soap opera since 1980, feels that the daytime serial genre hasn’t always gotten the R-e-s-p-e-c-t it deserves! Y&r debuted on March 26, 1973 so the show’s golden anniversary is still over five months away; however, the long-running soap opera is already starting to celebrate the big event. Braeden sat down with TV Insider for this exclusive interview in which he talks about what actor first convinced him to read for Y&r producers, his thoughts on other genres, and how he almost ended up not appearing as John Jacob Astor in the James Cameron blockbuster film Titanic. Edward Scott, former Y&R producer, now supervising producer at The Bold and the Beautiful, said in The Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell...

TV’s 1979 Titanic movie comes to Blu in two versions. We liked it when new but didn’t care for the cut-down theatrical version that hit DVD in 2002. Kino’s disc completes a set of various film versions of the infamous 1912 disaster, and allows us the chance for a Titanic ‘battle of the bands’ — we’ll rate them from several criteria. The filmed-in-England production has a nicely-chosen soap opera cast: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Ian Holm, Helen Mirren, Anna Quayle, David Warner, Susan Saint James, Harry Andrews.

S.O.S. Titanic

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1979 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 102 + 144 min. / Street Date October 13, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Ian Holm, Helen Mirren, Anna Quayle, David Warner, Timothy Spall, Susan Saint James, Harry Andrews, Ed Bishop, Jerry Hauser, Aubrey Morris, Norman Rossington, Catherine Byrne, Warren Clarke, Madge Ryan.

Cinematography: Christopher Challis

Film Editor: Rusty Coppleman

Original Music: Howard Blake

Special effects: Wally Veevers,...

As the "Titanic" leaves port for its four-hour minicruise on CBS, it's loaded with the usual baggage for our television disasters.

Oddly enough, considering that 800 people lived and 1,500 died, it's not a very eventful journey.

This isn't a special effects bonanza -- as we expect from director James Cameron's big-screen interpretation of the same events now being shot. There are enough effects to make the point but, essentially, this version is packed with stock characters from writers Ross LaManna and Joyce Eliason and jam-packed with the ironies of the unsinkable ship unthinkably sinking the night of April 12, 1912.

It is, of course, one of the hideous stories of the century, the historic ship five blocks long carrying its own library and 75,000 pounds of meat and not all those unnecessary lifeboats that it wouldn't need anyway.

Director Robert Lieberman shuffles about a dozen stories of fact and fiction, some interesting, some not, ranging from rape and pillaging to love and tenderness. And don't forget stupidity and then panic and pathos.

Among the characters: wise old Capt. Smith (George C. Scott), evilly arrogant shipline director Ismay (Roger Rees), star-crossed lovers Wynn (Peter Gallagher) and Isabella (Catherine Zeta Jones), devious ship attendant Doonan (Tim Curry), reforming petty thief Jamie (Mike Doyle), boisterous Molly Brown (Marilu Henner), snooty Mrs. Foley Eva Marie Saint), zillionaire John Jacob Astor (Scott Hylands) and, well, enough of a cast to populate the Titanic.

It's a curious enough trip, just by the size of the calamity, but there's nothing much to recommend the performances here, with some brief exceptions by some lesser cast members. And, in a zany way, the Titanic survives; this wasn't the first re-enactment -- and won't be the last.

TITANIC

CBS

Konigsberg/Sanitsky Co. in association with

American Zoetrope and Hallmark Entertainment

Executive producers:Fred Fuchs, Frank Konigsberg, Larry Sanitsky

Producers:Rocky Lang, Harold Tichenor

Director:Robert Lieberman

Writers:Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason

Director of photography:David Hennings

Visual effects supervisor:Janet Muswell

Production designer:Christiaan Wagener

Editor:Tod Feuerman

Music:Lennie Niehaus

Cast: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozad, Marilu Henner, Mike Doyle, Sonsee Ahray, Felicity Waterman, Scott Hylands, Janne Mortil, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin McNulty, Matthew Walker.

Airdates: Sunday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m., and Tuesday, Nov. 19, 9-11 p.m.