Bo Buchanan

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Bo Buchanan
Pictured above: Robert S. Woods, as featured on One Life to Live.
First appearance	1979
Last appearance	Ongoing…
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Aliases	Bo Ralston, Bill Brady
Gender	Male
Age	50s
Occupation	Commissioner of Llanview Police Department
Family	Various
Relationships	Nora Hanen (divorced), Sarah Gordon (widowed), Cassandra Callison (invalid), Didi O'Neill (widowed), Delilah Ralston (divorced)
Children	Drew Buchanan, Matthew Buchanan
Relatives	Various
Portrayed by	Robert S. Woods
Created by	Gordon Russell & Sam Hall

Beauregard "Bo" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. The role was originated in 1979 by Robert S. Woods.

Residing at an apartment on 459 Wakashin Street in the fictional Philadelphia suburb of Llanview, Vietnam War-veteran Bo (Woods himself being a veteran of the war) arrived in 1979, following his brother Clint from their native Texas, as Clint got a job a Llanview's flagship newspaper, The Banner, replacing Victoria Lord's then ailing husband, Joe Riley.

Somewhat unlucky in love, over the years Bo has suffered many breakups, as well as the deaths of two wives (Didi O'Neill in 1988 and Sarah Gordon in 1992) and a girlfriend (Gabrielle Medina in 2004). He has also pursued many occupations, including a music record executive and a movie and television producer. In the early 1990s, Bo became a police officer and met Nora Gannon, who was the attorney for Todd Manning during the infamous and Daytime Emmy Award-winning Marty Saybrooke rape trial. Bo and Nora were engaged and married, becoming one of One Life to Live's most successful pairings, as they became one of the leading supercouples in ABC Daytime.

Bo was devastated in 1998 when his son Drew, a police officer, was killed in the line of duty. Nora hoped to conceive a child to give her husband a reason to live; out of desperation she turned to former flame Sam Rappaport. The pregnancy pulled Bo back onto his feet, but he and Nora later divorced when it was revealed that Nora's son Matthew had been fathered by Sam. It wasn't until Sam's death in 2003 that the truth came out: Matthew was, in fact, Bo's son.

Buchanan currently serves as police commissioner for the Llanview Police Department. On May 1, 2006, Bo broke up with his girlfriend, Dr. Paige Miller, but they have since reconciled.