Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan
Actor History
Robert S. Woods (1979 to 1986, 1988 to Present)
John-Paul Lavoisier (2008; as a young Bo)
Tanner Woods (2008; as Young Bo)
Other Names
Bo Ralston (when he thought Yancey Ralston was his father)
Bill Brady (assumed name working at the plant)
Occupation
Llanview Police Commissioner
Former producer of the soap 'Fraternity Row'
Owned WVLE TV Station
Worked at the Lord/Manning plant (undercover)
Produced movie with Marco Dane
Former executive of Lonestar Records
Resides At
Llanview, Pennsylvania
Formerly 459 Wakashin Street, Llanview, PA 19100 (with Paige and Matthew)
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Delila Ralston (married 1983; divorced)
Didi O'Neill (married 10 January 1986; dissolved by her death in 1988)
Sarah Gordon (married 21 March 1990; dissolved by her death in 1992)
Cassie Callison (married 27 November 1991; invalid)
Nora Hanen (married 1 June 1995; divorced 21 June 1999)
Relatives
Asa Buchanan (father)
Olympia Buchanan (mother; deceased)
Renee Divine Buchanan (step-mother)
Clint Buchanan (brother)
Ben Davidson (paternal half-brother)
Cordero Roberts (nephew)
Kevin Buchanan Sr. (nephew; via adoption)
Joey Buchanan (nephew; via adoption)
Jessica Buchanan (niece; via adoption)
Natalie Buchanan (niece)
Pike Buchanan (paternal uncle)
Jeannie Buchanan (paternal aunt; deceased)
Rafe Garretson (paternal cousin)
Austin Buchanan (paternal cousin; deceased)
Sammi Garretson (paternal first cousin once removed)
Demerest Buchanan (great-nephew; via adoption; deceased)
Kevin Buchanan Jr. (great-nephew; via adoption)
Megan Buchanan (great-niece; via adoption; deceased)
Brennan Buchanan (great-niece; via adoption)
C.J. Roberts (great-nephew)
Sarah Roberts (great-niece)
Zane Buchanan (great-great-nephew; via adoption)
Children
David Vickers (son; with Emma Bradley; born 1968)
Drew Buchanan (son; with Becky Lee; born 1983; died 16 September 1998)
Matthew Buchanan (son; with Nora)
Flings & Affairs
Emma Bradley [in 1968]
Mimi King
Pat Ashley
Becky Lee Hunt
Georgina Whitman
Melanie Farrell
Nora Hanen
Gabrielle Medina (deceased)
Paige Miller
Lindsay Farrell Rappaport (engaged)
Lindsay Farrell Rappaport (engaged)
Crimes Committed
Assault on R.J. Gannon (charges dropped).
Charged with framing Todd Manning for murder
Brief Character History
Bo Buchanan came to Llanview in 1979 to join his relocated father in the east coast division of Buchanan Enterprises. Soon he had a love interest in the TV talk show host Pat Ashley. In 1983 he had a new love, Delila Ralston, but they stopped the relationship from going any further after Bo's mother, Olympia, declared on her deathbed that Yancy Ralston was Bo's father, not Asa. That would make Delila and Bo cousins. When Asa found out Bo and Delila weren't together anymore, he married Delila. Bo then started sleeping with Becky Lee Abbott, who became pregnant with their son Drew. They split up, and Bo married Delila after learning that Asa was in fact his father. Later in 1984, they got divorced.
Wanting to get away from his family for a while, Bo went to work at the Lord-Manning factory using the fake name of Bill Brady. He lived with the O'Neill family and fell in love with one of the daughters, Didi O'Neill. Didi was injured by an explosion at the factory and went blind. She and Bo got married in 1985. The following year, Bo took off for Vietnam in search of MIA's. In 1988 he returned without Didi, but the family sensed something wasn't right. It turned out that the Bo in Llanview was actually Patrick London, who had plastic surgery to alter his appearance, and the real Bo was being held hostage along with Didi and Delila. During the hostage situation, Patrick and Didi were both electrocuted.
In 1990, Bo fell in love with and married Sarah Gordon. But soon after the wedding, Sarah was kidnapped by Carlo Hesser and presumed dead in a plane crash. Bo married Cassie Callison in 1991 but was shocked at the reception when Sarah turned up alive! Bo stayed with Cassie for a time, but before long reunited with Sarah. Cassie and Bo annulled their marriage. In 1992 Sarah was killed in a hit-and-run accident on the day that she was supposed to re-marry Bo. After Sarah's death, Bo tried to commit suicide but was talked out of it by Sloan Carpenter.
A new attorney in town, Nora Hanen Gannon, helped Bo to get over his loss. They got engaged in 1993 but delayed their marriage because Nora had a brain tumor and needed surgery. Nora went temporarily blind after the surgery and was stalked at her beach house by her former client and convicted rapist Todd Manning. Bo rescued Nora and they returned to Llanview, where Nora was operated on and regained her vision. Bo and Nora married in 1995.
Bo's son by Becky Lee, Drew Buchanan, arrived in Llanview as an adult and soon became a cop, just like his father. He was on an investigation and got in the way when Barbara Graham was trying to shoot Kevin Buchanan and was shot. Drew died, and Bo was devastated.
In 1998, Nora and Bo were trying to have a baby. Lindsay Rappaport changed the test results to show that Bo couldn't have children, because she wanted him for herself. Desperate to give Bo a son to replace Drew, Nora asked Lindsay's ex-husband, Sam Rappaport, to sleep with her so she could become pregnant and pass off the baby as Bo's. Nora became pregnant but soon told Bo that the baby she was carrying was in fact Sam's. Bo and Nora separated. Nora had the child, which she and Sam named Matthew. Later, Nora found out that Bo really could have children and thought Bo could in fact be the Matthew's father. Test results were performed, but Lindsay paid off the lab technician to change the test results. The technician disappeared before Lindsay could find out if the results had been changed, but the results showed that Sam was the father. Nora and Bo's divorce was finalized, and Bo and Lindsay got together.
Lindsay confessed to Bo that she tried to have Matthew's DNA test altered, but changed her mind at the last minute. Bo forgave her, although Lindsay didn't tell Bo that she was the one who originally changed the results to show that Bo was impotent. Lindsay accepted Bo's marriage proposal, then found out she was pregnant with Bo's child. On their wedding day, Nora interrupted the wedding with the announcement that Lindsay was the one who changed Bo's fertility tests. Bo walked out on Lindsay. He took off to Cherryvale, where met Lindsey's sister, Melanie Farrell. Bo asked Melanie to marry him.
Colin MacIver, Melanie's ex-husband, died and Melanie was one of the suspects in his murder. When a hair sample taken from Colin's fingernails matched Melanie's hair, Bo was forced to take Melanie into custody. She admitted to hitting Colin with a poker the night he died and also revealed she'd helped her father die. Melanie broke off her engagement to Bo, but Bo wasn't convinced that she was the one who actually killed Colin. Later it was revealed Nora had actually killed him. Bo and Melanie later broke it off.
Gabrielle and Bo became lovers, and Gabrielle found a letter from now-deceased Sam Rappaport that revealed that Bo was Matthew's biological father. Gabrielle at first kept this news to herself, but ultimately revealed the truth to Bo.
In the fall of 2003, Gabrielle's son with Max Holden died and she was devastated. With Bo's help she began to enjoy life again and accepted Bo's marriage proposal. On New Year's Eve, Gabrielle was murdered by the Music Box Killer. Bo turned to Nora to help get over his grief over Gabrielle and flirted at reconciling, but Bo was unable to forgive Nora for cheating on him with Sam.
Bo began a relationship with Dr. Paige Miller and invited her to move into the apartment Bo shared with Matthew. The two became engaged, but broke it off when Paige admitted that she had been the doctor on call the night that John McBain's father, Thomas, was brought into the operating room and that she had been drunk. They later reconciled, but in July 2007 Paige took a job in the Middle East with the humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders and left town.
Bo was devastated by the loss of his father in August 2007. Bo and Asa had been in constant conflict over Asa's less than honest business dealings, and Asa's sudden death left the relationship unresolved. In February 2008, Bo was fired as police commissioner by the new mayor and replaced with ousted FBI agent Lee Ramsey. Bo became the court-ordered guardian of Lindsay, who had killed Spencer Truman but was found temporarily insane at the time. After Nash Brennan's sudden death, Bo proposed to Lindsay and they planned to marry at once. Nora found a letter from R.J. Gannon, however, proving that Lindsay faked insanity to get out of a murder sentence and presented the letter to Bo in the middle of his wedding. Lindsay admitted that she lied about being insane, and Bo left her at the altar.
Bo disappeared from town, and Rex Balsom tracked him down at the Buchanan ranch outside Paris, Texas. There they were struck by lightning and transported back to 1968, where everyone saw Bo as Asa and Rex as Bo. There they met Emma Bradley, Spencer Truman's mother, who according to history had slept with Asa and gotten pregnant with David Vickers. Bo, as Asa, failed to sleep with Emma in 1968 before being struck by lightning again and transported to the present day. In the past, Rex as Bo slept with Emma Bradley, who was the spitting image of Rex's childhood love Gigi Morasco. After returning the Llanview, Bo was reinstated by the mayor as police commissioner following the death of Lee Ramsey.
In February 2009, Bo was stunned to discover that David Vickers was his son, via a one-night stand with prostitute Emma Bradley in 1968. Everyone thought David was Asa's son, including Asa, who had left instructions following his death to give over his entire estate to David. David and Dorian, who had married, kicked the family out of the house when David thought he was Asa's son. But after learning he was Bo's son, David said he had too much respect for Bo to hurt the family and decided to move to Hollywood to resume his acting career.
When Nora found a joint in her son Matthew's backpack, she and Bo figured Matthew was getting high, although he only bought the joint to try to fit in with other kids in school. Cole Thornhart later smoked the joint outside the Buchanan mansion, and Matthew lied to impress his schoolmates and told his parents he smoked it. Bo said he was going to send Matthew to military school, over Nora's objections, but he later reconsidered after having a heart-to-heart with Matthew. When Cole got into a car accident while under the influence, Matthew was riding shotgun and got thrown from the car. Bo found Matthew, hours after Cole had been taken to the hospital, and was the first to realize that Matthew could not feel his legs. Bo and Nora were dismayed when the doctors said Matthew likely would never walk again. Bo and Nora got closer as they struggled to help Matthew cope with his paralysis. While sitting in a car after dropping Matthew off at school for his first day back following the accident, Bo and Nora nearly shared a kiss before Marcie McBain interrupted. Later Nora wanted to ignore what nearly happened, but Bo forced her to own up to their feelings for each other. When Clint spotted them in an embrace and demanded to know what was going on, Bo told Clint that he nearly kissed Nora. Clint was upset at Nora for not confiding in him, and Bo blamed Clint for bringing this on himself by deciding to date his ex-wife!
The next day, Bo learned from Nora that Clint had proposed to her during Natalie's bachelorette party at UltraViolet, and that she had accepted. Clint invited Bo and Matthew to join him and Nora for breakfast at the Palace and he presented Nora with an engagement ring, when announced that he had found a doctor who said he could help Matthew walk again. Later, Bo confided to Nora that he didn't trust Dr. Greg Evans, since he only came to town because Clint paid him, and said Clint should have come to them first. After reviewing Matthew's tests, Dr. Evans told Nora, Bo and Matthew that he could help Matthew walk again. But when they learned the surgery could be life threatening, Nora told an angry Matthew that she refused to let him have the surgery and Bo said they couldn't do anything that would put Matthew's life in jeopardy. Bo and Nora were shocked when Matthew said he would rather be dead than stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Matthew then hired Tea Delgado to represent him in a lawsuit against his parents, in which he would attempt to get permission from the court to have the surgery.
On the night before Nora and Clint's wedding, Bo and Nora shared a kiss at Asa's lodge. Matthew witnessed the kiss, and told his parents he would drop his lawsuit in exchange for not telling Clint. Bo and Nora called Matthew's bluff, and Matthew ultimately decided not to tell Clint because he didn't want to hurt his uncle. On the day of the wedding, Bo visited Lindsay at Statesville Prison and said he wanted her to talk him out of stopping Clint and Nora's wedding. But Lindsay said Bo should stop Clint from marrying Nora if he really loved Nora and could risk hurting his brother. But Bo couldn't bring himself to tell Clint that he was in love with Nora and stood by as Nora and Clint said their vows. Bo and Nora hired attorney Elijah Clark to represent them in the lawsuit against Matthew and were devastated when the judge ruled that Matthew could have the surgery without his parents' consent. Bo's estranged son David Vickers, who had bankrolled Matthew's lawsuit, returned to town and tried to forge a real relationship with Bo, although Bo reacted coolly to the idea that David was his son.
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