Eric Braeden is best known for his role as Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless.  Soon, however, the 67-year-old actor will not just be playing arguably the most powerful man in Genoa City as he heads to primetime TV.

Read on to find out what's in store for Eric Braeden.
Warning: May contain spoilers.

According to Soaps.com, the Young and the Restless actor will be making a guest appearance on yet another CBS hit series.  This time, he's gracing the new season of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Robin Charles Scherbatsky Sr., father of Cobie Smulders' character Robin.  In the said episode, Robin will reportedly call her father “Daddy Robin,” as the person she's most hate to run into. And as luck would have it, he suddenly appears.

As of this moment, an exact airdate has not been released so fans will just have to stay tuned to find out.

Braeden is also credited for The Bold and the Beautiful, Meet the Deedles, Titanic, The Nanny, Diagnosis Murder, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Judge and Jake Wyler and Escape from the Planet of the Apes, among others.  In addition to How I Met Your Mother, Braeden has also been cast in the upcoming western drama film The Man Who Came Back, which also stars Billy Zane, Sean Young, Armand Assante, James Patrick Stuart, and George Kennedy, just to name a few.

Meanwhile, fans can catch Eric Braeden as one of the sternest fathers in daytime television.  Most recently on The Young and the Restless, his character Victor was seen taking an extended leave of absence from Newman and was also withdrawing from public life.  Now, he is deemed to be in a bad shape after collapsing and seeing his late ex-wife for Sabrina (Raya Meddine), who appears to Victor as a ghost.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Soaps.com
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