David Vickers
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David Vickers Buchanan (born David Bradley Truman) is a fictional character
from the daytime soap opera
One Life to Live
, portrayed by Tuc Watkins
.
subsequently named David their "Most Entertaining Male Character" of 2008, noting that "Time and time again, David's harebrained schemes and Tuc Watkins's side-splitting performances provide amusement we're always sorry to see end." Watkins returned again from December 26, 2008 though March 2, 2009, later reappearing on April 7, 2009 and on April 22, April 23, and April 27, 2009. Watkins returns again on August 10, 2009 , February 2010, April 2010, and June 2010.
, Texas
, working as a dishwasher. Escaping the watchful eyes of Llanview, Jared and Natalie Buchanan
— who now knows Jared is not her uncle, and has fallen into an affair with him — arrive at the Bon Jour. Overhearing their secret, David follows them back to Llanview and blackmails them. As they plan to reveal their ruse to the family rather than pay David, Dorian reveals the secret as part of her takeover of Buchanan Enterprises. Jared is arrested, but Natalie secures his freedom by offering her father Clint
his real brother's identity in exchange for dropping the charges. Clint and his brother Bo Buchanan
reluctantly agree to her terms on June 18, 2008, and are shocked (and suspicious) at the news that David is their brother. Meanwhile, David marries Dorian's sister Addie Cramer to secure his financial future but reluctantly divorces her in exchange for Dorian saving Viki's life after a car crash. He tries to continue his relationship with Addie as leverage to force Dorian into relinquishing the renamed Cramer Enterprises back to Clint. However, Addie dumps David, as both marriage and divorce were part of an eccentric "to do list" that Addie had created after being released from St. Ann's sanitarium.
David reappears on December 26, 2008, calling himself "David Vickeroshi" and having "found peace" and renounced all worldly possessions as a Buddhist
monk. Meanwhile, a codicil of Asa's will is executed based on his heirs' failure to raise the Buchanan Enterprises stock price, and the entire estate is left to David — if Asa's lawyer Beaver Calhoun can find him. Dorian learns of David's paternity and pending inheritance, and plots to marry him or gain his power-of-attorney before he learns the truth himself. They marry on February 9, 2009. With David's paternity revealed publicly, Dorian manages to convince David to shed his Buddhist ways and take his inheritance; the couple soon throw the rest of the Buchanans out of Asa's mansion out of spite for withholding the secret. However, on February 25, 2009 a new paternity test determines that David is actually Bo's son, as Bo had slept with Emma once in 1968 (indirectly caused by Rex Balsom, who represented Bo when he was trapped in the past). After talking to Viki about what would truly make him happy, David decides to pursue his dream of an acting career in Los Angeles. Dorian chooses to stay in Llanview to seek her revenge against Clint, and David leaves town on March 2, 2009.
, crippled in an accident, is suing his parents Nora Hanen
and Bo for the right to proceed with a dangerous surgery that can cure him. David is revealed to be the one paying for Matthew's legal fees, and later helps Matthew escape from the British boarding school where Bo and Nora have sent him to thwart the legal decision against them. David bonds with Bo but remains in London, later helping Kelly Cramer
in February 2010. In an attempt to protect the family, David returns to Llanview once again on April 2, 2010 and blackmails Clint Buchanan
's new wife Kimberly Andrews into leaving Llanview. He reappears on June 3, 2010 for Bo and Nora's remarriage. He begins hanging around Viki again much to the chagrin of her husband, Charlie Banks
. Meanwhile, Viki offers him a fashion job at The Banner because Charlie and Dorian are working very closely together on another project. Charlie and Viki come up with a plan to help David and Dorian realize they still love each other.
On August 17, 2010 Dorian and David admit their love for one another and make love. David "proposes" and Dorian accepts. On August 18 Dorian and David and Eli and Blair plan on having a double wedding, but that plan was thwarted by Clint who kidnapped David and, by letter, made Dorian believe that David had left her again.
David is eventually rescued from his prison cell and is soon reunited with his father and Rex Balsom
, who is now his cousin. Upon his return he and Dorian reunite and he saves her from the clutches of Cutter Wentworth
, a gold-digging con-artist who was trying to seduce Dorian for her money. Dorian and David then re-marry for the third time. He also is cast in a film based on his life and has Dorian's daughter Langston Wilde
write the script for it, while her ex-boyfriend, Markko Rivera
, is set to direct it, leading to the pair's romantic reconciliation. David returned from Hollywood, California in June 2011 with Dorian, only to be arguing with each other when Dorian accuses David of having an affair with his co-star Ionia Masters, who plays his onscreen version of his wife Dorian in the big screen biopic "Vicker Man". David and Dorian are both unaware that Echo DiSavoy
is paying Ionia to seduce David away from Dorian to avenge her for helping Viki to ruin her affair with Viki's ex-husband Charlie Banks
, although David is suspicious that someone is setting him up to ruin his marriage. David accuses Clint at first, but Dorian reminds him that Clint's health problems at the time are preventing him from performing these type of machinations towards them. When David later has a conversation with Viki talking to her about all the people he known in his life who would hold a grudge against him, Viki eventually figures out that Echo was the person who was sabotaging his marriage to Dorian. David and Viki later goes to Dorian's La Boulaie estate to tell Dorian the truth, but they both discover that Dorian has vanished from her home. Viki tries to calm David down after his wife's disappearance. Dorian eventually reunites with David at the police station after she was kidnapped by Echo and held hostage at the Minute Man Motel, and was rescued by her seven year old grand nephew Sam Manning while he was wearing a Spider-Man
mask! David and Dorian then go back home to the La Boulaie estate where they make love to each other. David and Dorian later attend the premiere of their movie "Vicker Man" at the Palace Hotel, where Dorian gets into a confrontation with Ionia because they are wearing identical dresses. David helps break up the fight between them when David has the movie's director Markko send Ionia home in a cab. David and Dorian's movie premiere is unfortunately upstaged by porn producer Rick Powers, when he switches the "Vicker Man" movie with his porno flick "Hold The Diploma", which stars local Llanview teenagers Nate Salinger
and Deanna Forbes. David and Dorian both later learn that Rick put the "Vicker Man" movie on the internet. In August 2011, David's agent offered him a role in a big blockbuster movie project that was going to be filmed in Stockholm, Sweden that David gladly accepted. David then told Dorian about the movie role, and wanted Dorian to move with him to Sweden when he does his movie. Dorian then tells David that she can't go to Sweden with him because she got a call to become a senator in Washington D.C. because the previous senator was involved in a sex scandal. David wanted to put his acting career on hold to be with Dorian in Washington D.C. while she's senator. Dorian said that David couldn't do that because he would get bored with her being senator, and cheat on her with another woman. David and Dorian both mutually agree to balance their marriage with their own busy careers, with David going to Sweden to film his movie for three months, while coming back to Washington D.C. on Election Night to be there to support Dorian to win the senatoral election. David then says good-bye to his family and Dorian before he leaves to go do his movie in Sweden. He also says good-bye to his best friend, Viki, after seeing her and Dorian trapped in her mayoral office.
Fictional character
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from the daytime soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
, portrayed by Tuc Watkins
Tuc Watkins
Tuc Watkins is an American actor. He is known for his role as David Vickers on One Life to Live and for his role as Bob Hunter on Desperate Housewives .-Personal life:Watkins is of Welsh descent and is the son of Charles Curtis Watkins II, a salesman, and a...
.
Appearances
David was originated in 1994 by Watkins, who played the character until 1996 and then reprised the role briefly in October 2001 and January 2002. Watkins returned from August 2003 through November 2006 and then for a five-month run starting March 6, 2007. He reappeared again near the end of May 2007 and left July 26, 2007, returning temporarily in November 2007. Watkins came back from May 7 to August 6, 2008 for another short-term run, and Soap Opera DigestSoap Opera Digest
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subsequently named David their "Most Entertaining Male Character" of 2008, noting that "Time and time again, David's harebrained schemes and Tuc Watkins's side-splitting performances provide amusement we're always sorry to see end." Watkins returned again from December 26, 2008 though March 2, 2009, later reappearing on April 7, 2009 and on April 22, April 23, and April 27, 2009. Watkins returns again on August 10, 2009 , February 2010, April 2010, and June 2010.
Character history
On May 7, 2008, David is revealed to be an employee at the Bon Jour Café in ParisParis, Texas
Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, working as a dishwasher. Escaping the watchful eyes of Llanview, Jared and Natalie Buchanan
Natalie Buchanan
Natalie Buchanan Banks is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live and daughter of former supercouple Victoria Lord and Clint Buchanan...
— who now knows Jared is not her uncle, and has fallen into an affair with him — arrive at the Bon Jour. Overhearing their secret, David follows them back to Llanview and blackmails them. As they plan to reveal their ruse to the family rather than pay David, Dorian reveals the secret as part of her takeover of Buchanan Enterprises. Jared is arrested, but Natalie secures his freedom by offering her father Clint
Clint Buchanan
Clinton "Clint" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting:The role was originated in September 10, 1979 by actor Clint Ritchie, portraying the role nearly continuously through December 30, 1999. Ritchie reappeared in the 2003 and 2004. Actor Jerry...
his real brother's identity in exchange for dropping the charges. Clint and his brother Bo Buchanan
Bo Buchanan
Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting and awards:The role was originated in 1979 by Robert S. Woods, who briefly left the series in 1986 but returned in 1988, and currently portrays the role...
reluctantly agree to her terms on June 18, 2008, and are shocked (and suspicious) at the news that David is their brother. Meanwhile, David marries Dorian's sister Addie Cramer to secure his financial future but reluctantly divorces her in exchange for Dorian saving Viki's life after a car crash. He tries to continue his relationship with Addie as leverage to force Dorian into relinquishing the renamed Cramer Enterprises back to Clint. However, Addie dumps David, as both marriage and divorce were part of an eccentric "to do list" that Addie had created after being released from St. Ann's sanitarium.
David reappears on December 26, 2008, calling himself "David Vickeroshi" and having "found peace" and renounced all worldly possessions as a Buddhist
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
monk. Meanwhile, a codicil of Asa's will is executed based on his heirs' failure to raise the Buchanan Enterprises stock price, and the entire estate is left to David — if Asa's lawyer Beaver Calhoun can find him. Dorian learns of David's paternity and pending inheritance, and plots to marry him or gain his power-of-attorney before he learns the truth himself. They marry on February 9, 2009. With David's paternity revealed publicly, Dorian manages to convince David to shed his Buddhist ways and take his inheritance; the couple soon throw the rest of the Buchanans out of Asa's mansion out of spite for withholding the secret. However, on February 25, 2009 a new paternity test determines that David is actually Bo's son, as Bo had slept with Emma once in 1968 (indirectly caused by Rex Balsom, who represented Bo when he was trapped in the past). After talking to Viki about what would truly make him happy, David decides to pursue his dream of an acting career in Los Angeles. Dorian chooses to stay in Llanview to seek her revenge against Clint, and David leaves town on March 2, 2009.
Returns
David returned to Llanview in August 2009 after his acting career fails. His teenage half-brother Matthew BuchananMatthew Buchanan
Matthew Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting:The role was portrayed by child actors Steven and Nicholas Towler from 1999 to June 2000 and Ian Chandler Sheaffer from July 2000 to May 2001...
, crippled in an accident, is suing his parents Nora Hanen
Nora Hanen
Nora Hanen Buchanan is a fictional character on the long-running American soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by Hillary B. Smith in September 1992.-Casting:...
and Bo for the right to proceed with a dangerous surgery that can cure him. David is revealed to be the one paying for Matthew's legal fees, and later helps Matthew escape from the British boarding school where Bo and Nora have sent him to thwart the legal decision against them. David bonds with Bo but remains in London, later helping Kelly Cramer
Kelly Cramer
Kelly Cramer is a fictional character on the long-running daytime soap opera One Life to Live, most notably portrayed by Gina Tognoni, who first appeared in the role February 17, 1995 and left on August 24, 2011.-Casting:...
in February 2010. In an attempt to protect the family, David returns to Llanview once again on April 2, 2010 and blackmails Clint Buchanan
Clint Buchanan
Clinton "Clint" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.-Casting:The role was originated in September 10, 1979 by actor Clint Ritchie, portraying the role nearly continuously through December 30, 1999. Ritchie reappeared in the 2003 and 2004. Actor Jerry...
's new wife Kimberly Andrews into leaving Llanview. He reappears on June 3, 2010 for Bo and Nora's remarriage. He begins hanging around Viki again much to the chagrin of her husband, Charlie Banks
Charlie Banks (One Life to Live)
Charles "Charlie" Banks is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Brian Kerwin from October 25, 2007 to May 11, 2011.-Character history:...
. Meanwhile, Viki offers him a fashion job at The Banner because Charlie and Dorian are working very closely together on another project. Charlie and Viki come up with a plan to help David and Dorian realize they still love each other.
On August 17, 2010 Dorian and David admit their love for one another and make love. David "proposes" and Dorian accepts. On August 18 Dorian and David and Eli and Blair plan on having a double wedding, but that plan was thwarted by Clint who kidnapped David and, by letter, made Dorian believe that David had left her again.
David is eventually rescued from his prison cell and is soon reunited with his father and Rex Balsom
Rex Balsom
Rex Balsom is a fictional character on the American daytime drama One Life to Live, portrayed by John-Paul Lavoisier since May 9, 2002.With the character initially named "Jamie" prior to production, then-Executive Producer Gary Tomlin "toyed with the idea" of putting Rex in a gay storyline;...
, who is now his cousin. Upon his return he and Dorian reunite and he saves her from the clutches of Cutter Wentworth
Cutter Wentworth
Cutter Wentworth is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. He has been portrayed by Josh Kelly since his debut on December 29, 2010.-Casting:...
, a gold-digging con-artist who was trying to seduce Dorian for her money. Dorian and David then re-marry for the third time. He also is cast in a film based on his life and has Dorian's daughter Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde
Langston Wilde Cramer is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. She has been played by Brittany Underwood from May 17, 2006 til April 12, 2011...
write the script for it, while her ex-boyfriend, Markko Rivera
Markko Rivera
Geraldo "Markko" Rivera is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama One Life to Live. He has been portrayed by Jason Tam since May 21, 2007. Tam last aired as Markko on November 10, 2010 when he left town to continue studying at UCLA...
, is set to direct it, leading to the pair's romantic reconciliation. David returned from Hollywood, California in June 2011 with Dorian, only to be arguing with each other when Dorian accuses David of having an affair with his co-star Ionia Masters, who plays his onscreen version of his wife Dorian in the big screen biopic "Vicker Man". David and Dorian are both unaware that Echo DiSavoy
Echo DiSavoy
Echo DiSavoy is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. She was portrayed by Kim Zimmer from March to October 1983...
is paying Ionia to seduce David away from Dorian to avenge her for helping Viki to ruin her affair with Viki's ex-husband Charlie Banks
Charlie Banks (One Life to Live)
Charles "Charlie" Banks is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Brian Kerwin from October 25, 2007 to May 11, 2011.-Character history:...
, although David is suspicious that someone is setting him up to ruin his marriage. David accuses Clint at first, but Dorian reminds him that Clint's health problems at the time are preventing him from performing these type of machinations towards them. When David later has a conversation with Viki talking to her about all the people he known in his life who would hold a grudge against him, Viki eventually figures out that Echo was the person who was sabotaging his marriage to Dorian. David and Viki later goes to Dorian's La Boulaie estate to tell Dorian the truth, but they both discover that Dorian has vanished from her home. Viki tries to calm David down after his wife's disappearance. Dorian eventually reunites with David at the police station after she was kidnapped by Echo and held hostage at the Minute Man Motel, and was rescued by her seven year old grand nephew Sam Manning while he was wearing a Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
mask! David and Dorian then go back home to the La Boulaie estate where they make love to each other. David and Dorian later attend the premiere of their movie "Vicker Man" at the Palace Hotel, where Dorian gets into a confrontation with Ionia because they are wearing identical dresses. David helps break up the fight between them when David has the movie's director Markko send Ionia home in a cab. David and Dorian's movie premiere is unfortunately upstaged by porn producer Rick Powers, when he switches the "Vicker Man" movie with his porno flick "Hold The Diploma", which stars local Llanview teenagers Nate Salinger
Nate Salinger
Nathaniel "Nate" Q. Salinger is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live. The role is currently portrayed by Lenny Platt since April 12, 2010, and was on recurring status. He was put on contract in late October 2010....
and Deanna Forbes. David and Dorian both later learn that Rick put the "Vicker Man" movie on the internet. In August 2011, David's agent offered him a role in a big blockbuster movie project that was going to be filmed in Stockholm, Sweden that David gladly accepted. David then told Dorian about the movie role, and wanted Dorian to move with him to Sweden when he does his movie. Dorian then tells David that she can't go to Sweden with him because she got a call to become a senator in Washington D.C. because the previous senator was involved in a sex scandal. David wanted to put his acting career on hold to be with Dorian in Washington D.C. while she's senator. Dorian said that David couldn't do that because he would get bored with her being senator, and cheat on her with another woman. David and Dorian both mutually agree to balance their marriage with their own busy careers, with David going to Sweden to film his movie for three months, while coming back to Washington D.C. on Election Night to be there to support Dorian to win the senatoral election. David then says good-bye to his family and Dorian before he leaves to go do his movie in Sweden. He also says good-bye to his best friend, Viki, after seeing her and Dorian trapped in her mayoral office.