Biografia

Was awarded the Federal Medal of Honor by the president of Germany for promoting a "positive, realistic image of Germans in America".

Brother-in-law of Bob Crane and Sigrid Valdis.

He became a naturalized citizen while in college.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on July 20, 2007. Many of his Febbre d'amore (1973) co-stars were present for the occasion.

Legal name continues to be Hans Gudegast. Although he initially resented being asked to use a non-German stage name, he has since gotten accustomed to being called Eric by new acquaintances and colleagues, while Hans is the name he uses among family and old friends.

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.