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Bo Buchanan
One Life to Live character
Portrayed by
Duration
  • 1979–86
  • 1988–2013
First appearanceNovember 1979 (November 1979)
Last appearanceAugust 19, 2013 (August 19, 2013)
Classification
Rafe Garretson

Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live, portrayed by Robert S. Woods.

Casting and awards

The Online Network April 29, 2013.[4][5]

A 2008

Tanner plays young Bo on August 26, 2008 as he departs to serve in the Vietnam War.[3][10]

Woods won the

Daytime Emmy Award for Lead Actor for the role in 1983,[11] also earning nominations in 1986,[12] 1993,[13] 1994,[14] 1999,[15] 2000,[16] and 2012, multiple Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, and four MVP trophies from Soap Opera Update.[2]

Storylines

Lost love and business

Vietnam War-veteran Bo arrives in the fictional city of Llanview, Pennsylvania, in November 1979, following his brother Clint (Clint Ritchie) from their native Texas. Clint had secured the chief editing position at Llanview's flagship newspaper, The Banner, replacing the ailing husband and editor for Banner publisher Victoria Lord Riley (Erika Slezak), Joe Riley (Lee Patterson).

Somewhat unlucky in love, over the years Bo suffers many breakups, including the deaths of two wives (

rapper Snoop Dogg his break in show business, cementing a lifelong friendship between them.[17] In 1995, Bo becomes Llanview's police commissioner
.

Nora and family

Bo meets attorney

Wortham Krimmer), Rabbi Heller, and rock and roll singer Little Richard
.

Bo is devastated when his son

Sam Rappaport (Kale Browne). The pregnancy pulls Bo back onto his feet, but he and Nora later divorce in 1999 when it is revealed that Nora's son Matthew had apparently been fathered by Sam. It is not until Sam's death in 2003 that the truth comes out about how Matthew (Eddie Alderson
) is Bo's son, Sam had been aware of it, and that he kept the secret.

In July 2008, Bo and young

paternity test determines that David Vickers (Tuc Watkins) — whom a previous DNA test had supposedly established is Asa's son by Emma — is actually's Bo's son.[19][20]

In 2009, Nora and Clint (Jerry verDorn, onward) begin a relationship. Bo and Nora spend more time together when Matthew is in an accident and becomes paralyzed; soon Clint senses that Bo and Nora still harbor feelings for each other. Nora accepts Clint's proposal, but she kisses Bo the night before her wedding to Clint. Nora loves Clint and goes through with the wedding to Clint, but she becomes further wrapped up with Bo when Matthew sues his parents for the right to have a dangerous surgery that may help him walk again. Bo and Nora finally confess their love for each other and have an affair. When Clint finds out, he furiously throws Nora out and demands a divorce, blackmailing her into signing over the Buchanan mansion, which Asa had left to her in his will.

In April 2010, Bo is shot by

Schuyler Joplin (Scott Clifton
) but survives, soon asking Nora to marry him on April 9, 2010. In June 2010, after a decade apart, Bo and Nora remarry in a ceremony officiated by David.

On finale episode, first-run January 13, 2012, Bo became a grandfather to

Drew Buchanan II
, via Matthew.

In October 2012, on

John McBain notes that he is doing everything he can to help apprehend Heather. After Heather is apprehended, Téa learns that her child is actually the child of Sam McCall, and that Todd Manning
switched her child with Sam's. Distraught, Téa returns to Llanview.

References

  1. ^ July 2008 episodes
  2. ^ a b "SOAP STAR STATS: Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan, OLTL)". SoapOperaDigest.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  3. ^
    Soaps.com. Archived from the original
    on February 27, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Hal Boedeker (25 January 2013). "'All My Children,' 'One Live to Live' reborn via Hulu". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  5. ^ Jolie Lash (25 January 2013). "One Life To Live, All My Children – New Episodes On The Way This Spring Via Hulu, iTunes". Access Hollywood. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  6. ^ "One Life to Live: Big Returns and Plots For 40th Anniversary!". Soaps.com. June 10, 2008. Archived from the original on January 11, 2009. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
  7. Logan, Michael (June 11, 2008). "Soaps News: One Life Celebrates No. 40 with Blasts from the Past". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original
    on August 1, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
  8. ^ a b One Life to Live recap (7/21/08, 40th Anniversary) - Soaps.com
  9. ^ a b One Life to Live recap (7/22/08, 40th Anniversary) - Soaps.com
  10. ^ "One Life to Live recap (8/26/08) - Soaps.com". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
  11. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 1983". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on May 27, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  12. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 1986". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on May 27, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  13. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 1993". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on July 26, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  14. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 1994". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on July 26, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  15. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 1999". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  16. ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 2000". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  17. ^ Snoop Dogg's fictional origins on Fraternity Row are mentioned by the artist in his appearance as himself in the May 8 and May 9, 2008, episodes.
  18. ^ "One Life to Live Recaps: The week of September 14, 1998 on OLTL".
  19. ^ "OLTL: David is Bo's Son!". Soap Opera Digest. Vol. 34, No. 9. March 3, 2009. p. 8.
  20. ^ "One Life to Live recap (2/25/09) - Soaps.com". Archived from the original on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2009-02-26.

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