Dorian Cramer Lord
Actor History
Nancy Pinkerton (1973 to 1977)
Clair Malis (1977 to 1979)
Robin Strasser (1979 to 1987; 1993 to February 23, 2000; April 2, 2003 to Present; All My Children: December 30, 2003)
Elaine Princi (1989 to 1993)
Dixie Carter (1974; temporary replacement)
Occupation
Physician (non-practicing)
Owns a controlling interest in Cramer Enterprises (formerly Buchanan Enterprises)
Former owner of of Lord Enterprises, whose assets include The Banner, WVLE-TV, and life interest in Llanfair
Former Chief of Staff at Llanview Hospital
Former events coordinator at Llanview Hospital
Former co-owner of the Buchanan-Lord Art Galley (with Lindsay Rappaport)
Former CEO/Director of Marketing at Melador Cosmetics
Former owner and publisher of the Intruder
Former U.S. abassador to Mendorra
Former host of The View on Llanview
Former cashier at Logan's Department Stores
Resides At
La Boulaie, located on Lincoln Street in Llanview, PA
Formerly Buchanan Mansion (2009)
Dorian purchased the manse from Marty Saybrooke, but later sold it to repay a debt to Asa Buchanan. Todd bought the mansion in Starr's name and struck a deal with Dorian -- she can live there as long as she wants if she is willing to pay Starr $1 a year in rent.
Formerly Llanfair (after being widowed by Victor Lord in 1970s)
Marital Status
Married to David Vickers (Feb 9, 2009 to present)
Past Marriages
Victor Lord (1975; widowed; deceased)
Herb Callison (1982-1985; divorced)
Manuel Santi (1980s; annulled; deceased)
David Vickers (1995; divorced)
Mel Hayes (May 1998 to January 1999; widowed; deceased)
Mitch Laurence (2003, widowed; deceased)
Relatives
Lou Cramer (father; deceased)
Sonya Roskova (mother; deceased)
Melinda Cramer (sister)
Addie Cramer (sister)
Betsy Cramer (aunt; deceased)
Kelly Cramer (niece)
Paul Cramer (nephew; deceased)
Blair Cramer (niece)
Kevin Buchanan Jr. (great-nephew; deceased)
Zane Buchanan (great-nephew)
Starr Manning (great-niece)
Jack Manning (great-nephew)
Sam Manning (great-step-nephew)
Hope Manning McBain (great-great-niece, being raised as Chloe Brennan)
Children
Cassie Callison (daughter; with David Renaldi)
Adriana Cramer (daughter; with Manuel Santi)
Langston Wilde (adopted daughter)
William Sloan Carpenter (grandson; deceased)
William Sloan "River" Carpenter (grandson; via adoption)
Flings & Affairs
David Renaldi
Mark Toland
Peter Janssen
Marco Dane
Clint Buchanan
Daniel Wolek
Asa Buchanan
Harry O'Neill
Jon Russell
Jason Webb
Joey Buchanan
Drake Faraday
David Vickers
Harrison Brooks
Ray Montez
Crimes Committed
Fired from Llanview Hospital for covering up the death of Rachel Wilson
Withheld medication from a dying Victor Lord
Convicted of Mitch Laurence's alleged murder in the 1980s and sent to prison; an audio tape was later found proving Dorian had supposedly killed Mitch in self-defense
Attempted to lock Viki in the secret room at Llanfair until she convinced Sloan Carpenter not to publish his book about Victor Lord
Persuaded a girl to lie and say that Sloan Carpenter had sexually harassed her
Scammed the jury in her Victor Lord murder trial by getting David Vickers to produce a forged diary allegedly written by Irene Clayton saying Irene killed Victor
Served time on death row for the murder of Victor Lord but was later exonerated
Framed Viki Davidson for embezzling funds from the university
Felony hit and run /manslaughter for hitting expecting mom, Jessica Buchanan, with her car and killing Jessie's baby, Megan; served no jail time thanks to R.J. Gannon bribing the judge
Knocked her mother, Sonya, unconscious when Sonya assaulted Cassie
Committed insurance fraud by lying about the theft of the Badhra necklace
Arrested for the Murder of Mitch Laurence; charges dropped [Jul 2003]
Held a mystery Frenchman at gunpoint [Aug 7, 2003]
Framed Rex as a heroine addict and Adriana's stalker [2007]
Arrested for hiring a man to stalk her daughter and have her kidnapped [2007]
Paid Brody Lovett $1 million to come to Llanview and pretend to be Shane Morasco's father, to preserve her daughter Adriana's marriage to Rex Balsom [2008]
Cited for contempt of court after losing custody of Langston Wilde [2008]
Hired mobster Jackie McNaughton to take out Ray Montez [2008]
Maladies & Hospitalizations
None
Brief Character History
Dr. Dorian Cramer and her neurotic sister, Melinda, arrived in Llanview in 1973. Dorian was very devoted to her sister's care. Melinda, once a piano prodigy, saw her budding career end when a fall from a horse paralyzed her arm.
Dorian became a doctor in Llanview Hospital, where she quickly started an affair with Dr. Mark Toland. Melinda, her sister, wanted Mark for herself and schemed to make sure Dorian did not have him. After attacking Mark, Melinda was sent to a mental institution. Dorian and Mark continued their affair, but after an intense fight, Dorian made a careless mistake on patient Rachel Wilson's chart and the patient died as a result. Fearing for her career, Dorian covered up the crime and Dr. Larry Wolek was arrested instead. With the guilt on her shoulders, she accidentally fell down some stairs and went into a coma. Upon waking, Dorian confessed and was immediately fired by the hospital board; she blamed Victoria Lord, a prominent member, for her termination. This started a rivalry that would last for decades. What Dorian didn't know, and finally learned in 2003, was that Viki cast the lone vote against her termination.
Dorian later married and cared for Viki's father, Victor Lord, who was bedridden by heart problems. Dorian loved Victor's family fortune more than she loved her husband. After Dorian got Victor to change his will, he suffered a stroke and died.
As the widow of Victor Lord, Dorian had been blissfully living at Llanfair. However, a clause in the will stated that the house was supposed to revert to Viki upon Dorian's remarriage. So, when Dorian married Herb Callison, Viki and her husband Clint Buchanan evicted her.
For years after Victor's death, Viki persisted in thinking that Dorian murdered him. Some twenty years later, Viki went to the D.A. with enough facts to prove Dorian murdered her father. Dorian was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Dorian served time on death row but was eventually freed. It was later revealed that one of Viki's multiple-personalities committed the murder, although this revelation was later brought into question when a seemingly alive Victor resurfaced briefly in 2003.
Out of revenge for Viki accusing her of murdering Victor, Dorian began seducing Viki's young son, Joey. In the process, she developed true feelings for Joey and fell in love with him. However, Dorian was forced to break up with Joey while being held captive by one of Viki's alters, Jean Randolph.
Dorian's next love interest was Mel Hayes. Dorian and Mel met in Washington, D.C., while she was there on a business trip. A drunken Mel literally fell over her when they met in a hotel bar. The sparks between them were instantaneous, and their feelings for one another continued to grow. Dorian convinced Mel to move to Llanview and take a job as a news reporter at The Banner.
It soon became clear to Mel that Dorian was hiding something from her past, something she would do anything to keep hidden, even tamper with her sister, Melinda's medication. It was eventually revealed that Dorian had been abused by her mother as a child and had seen her mother kill her father. Dorian went back to Canton, where she had lived as a child, and found that her mother was still alive, but insane. Dorian saved Cassie when her mother, Sonya, attacked her, but ended up killing Sonya in the process.
After returning to Llanview, Dorian was shot and very seriously wounded in a bodega holdup. She hovered on the verge of death and went to "Hell", where she was met by Carlo Hesser. Dorian wrestled with her demons and in the end was able to come to peace with her mother and herself, and when Dorian woke up, she declared that she would be a new, better person. It lasted for a while, and Dorian even was friendly with Viki for a time. Dorian married Mel in the City Room of the Banner, but the honeymoon ended and Dorian once again began interfering in the lives of 'her girls', despite Mel's best efforts to stop her from meddling.
After Cassie suffered a nervous breakdown, Dorian tried to sneak Cassie away from Kevin Buchanan to a mental institution in Switzerland. Mel disagreed and walked out on Dorian. After she realized what she had done to her marriage, she tried to stop him from going on a business trip with Viki. She sent a note on the plane, but Viki got it instead and got off. After the plane took off there was an explosion and Mel was killed. From this point on she vowed revenge on Viki for Mel's death. Soon after, she kidnapped Viki with Hugo Monroe's help and locked her in the cellar. Hugo decided he didn't need help and locked Dorian in there, too. Needless to say, they called a truce after that.
Dorian often called on the services of Madame Delphina to channel Mel's spirit, who urged her to make full peace with Viki. Ironically, on her way to Viki's she hit a pregnant Jessica Buchanan with her car. Jess's baby Megan was born and died soon after. Dorian and R.J. Gannon covered her tracks because she didn't think anyone would believe it was just an accident. Dorian was prepared to let her friend, Lindsay take the rap when suddenly Jess remembered who hit her. Dorian then confessed. She served no jail time because R.J. had bribed the judge.
Someone then started to torment Dorian and drive her crazy. It turned out to be Jessica. Jessica was prepared to mow down Dorian, who was on her knees, but ultimately decided to forgive her. Next, an old friend of Mel's, Drake Faraday, came to town to meet Dorian and put the moves on her. Dorian agreed to leave town with Drake and threw a party to announce her departure to her family and friends. Soon after, Dorian quietly left Llanview to travel around the world with Drake.
In 2003, Dorian returned to town with plans to strike it rich. Learning that a back-from-the-dead Mitch Laurence had just inherited Victor Lord's estate, she cozied up to him and soon the pair got married. Unfortunately, Dorian quickly saw how evil Mitch was when she ended up saving his own daughter from him. By this time, Dorian had the Bahdra diamond in her possession and she hid that from Mitch while at the same time haunting him. In the end, Mitch wound up dead. However Dorian wound up the loser when she learned that he changed his will to make Jessica his sole heir. Initially arrested for his murder, she was found innocent, then lost the Lord fortune when a judge determined Viki was the rightful heir, and Dorian moved back to La Boulaie. Later, Dorian initiated David Vickers' help in ending Kelly's marriage to Kevin Buchanan. However, Dorian would find herself falling for David herself. Although they made plans to marry, it was becoming obvious that Dorian wasn't about to marry him. In the meantime, Dorian, in an attempt to secure an inheritance from her Aunt Betsy, suddenly announced to everyone that a newcomer named Adriana Colon was her biological daughter.
Dorian told David that she couldn't marry him, and David couldn't understand why until Dorian revealed she was already married, to Manuel Santi -- Adriana's father. After Manuel died, Dorian had the marriage annulled, but she still kept putting off her marriage to David. Once Aunt Betsy's supposed millions (which were left to Adriana) proved to be nothing, Dorian, David and Paul Cramer went after the Santi fortune, but never got their hands on it, either. They returned to Llanview, where Dorian and David were both soon suspects in Paul Cramer's murder. They were cleared, but their relationship suffered because of Dorian's obsession with her family. David moved out, even though he continued to support her in framing Viki for embezzling from the university.
Once Dorian and Manuel's marriage was a thing of the past, David and Dorian made their own plans to marry, but on their wedding day, David shocked Dorian when he told her he could not marry her. Although he later admitted that Spencer had forced him to jilt her, Dorian couldn't forgive him for not telling her what was going on, and found herself attracted to a recently-returned Clint Buchanan. Dorian juggled her attraction to Clint with her remaining attraction to David, which resurfaced after David confessed to having shot Thomas McBain. But her main worry became Adriana after she learned that someone was stalking her daughter, and she reluctantly accepted Adriana's relationship with Rex when she saw how the young man protected her.
The truth finally came out that Dorian had actually hired a man to "stalk" her daughter and set Rex up to look like the stalker. Unfortunately, things went sour when Adriana was kidnapped and not returned to Dorian like planned. Adriana's stalker was keeping her hostage for money and Dorian panicked. Rex came to the rescue again and saved Adriana but this brought her relationship with Dorian to a halt. Adriana was extremely angry when she found out that Dorian was behind the stalking and had her arrested. Dorian stood by her story that she had nothing to do with the stalking but by doing so, she lost Clint's trust and their relationships also fell apart.
Eventually, Rex and Viki helped guide Adriana and Dorian back together.. Clint also gave Dorian another chance and they became friends. Clint started to date Viki again, which made Dorian jealous. Viki told Clint to chose either her or Dorian, and Clint chose an overjoyed Dorian. As their relationship grew stronger, Viki and David's friendship grew stronger and eventually David moved in with Viki when Dorian refused to allow him to stay at La Boulaie.
In August 2007, during the funeral for Asa Buchanan, Dorian and Viki got trapped in the wine cellar at the Buchanan mansion. There, Dorian made the startling claim that she was the one who actually had killed Victor Lord all those years ago and questioned whether the man who resurfaced in 2003 was actually Victor or an imposter.
Clint and Dorian's relationship came to an end in August 2007, when Dorian falsely believed that Clint was having an affair with Nora and slept with David Vickers. Clint walked in on Dorian and David and called it quits. Soon thereafter, Clint and Nora actually began dating. Dorian, as revenge for being dumped by Clint, orchestrated a hostile takeover of Buchanan Enterprises. Dorian announced the takeover at a BE shareholders meeting, and at the same time revealed that the man Clint believed was his half-brother, Jared Banks, was in fact an imposter and was dating Clint's daughter Natalie. Clint nearly strangled Dorian to death at the meeting.
Following Nash's death, Jessica's alter Tess resurfaced and tampered with the brakes on Natalie's car in an attempt to kill her. Viki instead got behind the wheel and picked up a stranded Dorian on the road. While on the road the two got in a bitter argument about Charlie Banks, the man Viki had been seeing until it was revealed that he was lying to her about being Jared's father. Dorian claimed that she had slept with Charlie, although the truth was that she had drugged him and plied him with alcohol in an attempt to keep Charlie from admitting to Viki that he was Jared's father. Distraught, and with the brakes failing, Viki crashed the car and subsequently died. When David happened upon the accident, he convinced Dorian to save Viki's life in exchange for him divorcing Dorian's sister Addie. Dorian reluctantly complied and brought Viki back from the brink.
Clint then hatched a plan to win BE back from Dorian by threatening to take away her foster daughter, Langston Wilde. Clint paid off Columbian officials to release Langston's uncle, Ray Montez, from a prison where he was serving time for murder. While at the courthouse to make her adoption of Langston official, Dorian was stunned when Ray entered the courtroom and demanded legal custody of his niece. The judge sided with Ray and Dorian became livid, overturning a table and threatening to get even with the judge. The judge then cited her for contempt of court and threw her into jail for the night, where she summoned mobster Jackie McNaughton and hatched a plan to make Ray go away - permanently.
After apologizing to the court for her actions the night before, Dorian was released and quickly learned from Cole that Clint was behind bringing Ray to town. She marched over to the Buchanan mansion, where she told a shocked Clint that she had no intention of giving over the company. She secretly paid Jackie and told him to kill Ray before he could take Langston out of the country. Her family was livid that Dorian refused to give up the company in exchange for Langston's freedom, but Langston said she understood and admired Dorian for not backing down. A tearful Langston then prepared to leave behind the life and family she had come to love in Llanview.
The situation came to a head at the airport, as Ray and Langston prepared to depart. Dorian had second thoughts about ordering a hit on Ray and told Jackie to call it off, but he said it was too late. She spied the hit man, who was dressed as an airplane pilot, moments before he was about to fire and shouted that he had a gun. John McBain, who had been tipped off by Addie Cramer that Dorian had hired an "exterminator," showed up in the nick of time and shot the gun out of the hit man's hand. Ray's wife Vanessa, however, who had just arrived at the airport from Columbia with Ray's daughter Lola, picked up the gun and shot Ray. Ray ended up being sent back to Columbia, and Langston was able to stay in Llanview. Nora, meanwhile, bluffed Dorian into thinking she had evidence that Dorian was behind Ray's attempted assassination. In exchange for dropping the case, Dorian agreed to give up control of Buchanan Enterprises.
In December 2008, David Vickers returned to Llanview and professed to have converted to Buddhism. In an effort to clear his conscience, David told Viki and Charlie that Dorian had drugged Charlie and plied him with alcohol to keep him from telling Viki that he was Jared's father. Viki and Charlie marched over to Dorian's and told her that they knew the truth. Dorian, afraid that she was about to be arrested, left town and ended up at St. Blaize's, the island formerly owned by Asa Buchanan that Buchanan butler Nigel had given Alex Olanov in exchange for her keeping silent about David Vickers being Asa's son. Dorian ran into Alex there, and learned from her that David was in fact Asa's son. Back in Llanview, Dorian pretended to have converted to Buddhism herself so David would agree to marry her. She even signed over control of La Boulaie and all her possessions to her cook, Moe Stubbs, and his wife Noelle. The plan worked, and Dorian and David were wed in February 2009. Dorian revealed the marriage to the Buchanans during the Go Red Ball, and David soon learned that he was Asa's long-lost heir. David at first was unsure whether to accept his birthright, but quickly got over his religious conversion and marched over to the Buchanan mansion with Dorian and kicked out his newfound relatives.
But Dorian's joy at finally getting even with Clint was short-lived, because new DNA tests revealed that David wasn't Asa's son at all but was in fact the product of a one-night fling between his mother Emma Bradley and Bo! David decided he had too much respect for Bo to take over the Buchanan empire and asked Dorian to move away with him to Hollywood so David could pursue an acting career. Dorian said she couldn't leave her family, but wished him good luck in following his dreams. Dorian, meanwhile, returned to La Boulaie to find Ray Montez back in town and promptly clocked him over the head with a cut glass vase. She soon learned that Ray's conviction for killing his first wife had been overturned after Vanessa confessed to setting him up. Ray told Dorian he would be staying in Llanview to get to know his daughter again and to get closer to his niece Langston. Moe invited Ray and Lola to stay at La Boulaie, and Dorian moved back in as well. That very night, Dorian was shocked to discover Blair in the bathroom, nearly stabbed to death by an unknown intruder. Todd soon came on the scene, and Dorian was convinced he was responsible for stabbing Blair.
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