Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan is a fictional character from the
American soap opera One Life to Live.Robert S. Woods created the
character of Bo in November 1979. Woods originally screen tested for
the recast of Richard Abbott, cousin of central heroine Victoria
"Viki" Lord Riley (Erika Slezak). He was offered the newly created
part of Bo instead by then-executive producer Joseph Stuart; after
accepting, Woods telephoned Dallas star and personal friend Steve
Kanaly to inform him that he would be playing the "Ray Krebbs of
daytime." Woods went on to play Bo from the character's inception
through 1986, and returned in 1988 to play him through the series
finale on January 13, 2012. Woods reprised the role when new regular
episodes of OLTL debuted on Hulu, iTunes, and FX Canada via The Online
Network April 29, 2013.A 2008 time travel storyline transplants Bo and
Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) back to 1968, where Woods portrays
his character's father Asa Buchanan, and Lavoisier plays a young Bo
from July 21 through August 26, 2008. As Bo and Rex return to the
present, Woods' real-life son Tanner plays young Bo on August 26, 2008
as he departs to serve in the Vietnam War.Woods won a Daytime Emmy
Award for Lead Actor for the role in 1983, also earning nominations in
1986, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, and 2012, multiple Soap Opera Digest
Award nominations, and four MVP trophies from Soap Opera Update. Bo Buchanan Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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