Buzz Cooper

Frank Achilles "Buzz" Cooper Sr. is a fictional character on the popular CBS daytime soap opera, Guiding Light.

The character of Buzz was originated by Justin Deas in February 1993 and he has been with the show to its final airdate which was September 18, 2009. Deas has been nominated four times over the years at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actor, most recently in 2005. He has won three times in 1994, 1995 and 1997 respectively.

Character history

Buzz is a former Vietnam war veteran who deserted his wife and children by volunteering for a second tour of duty after serving his first straight out of high school. The young Cooper children were told by their mother that Buzz had died in action and when he was revealed to be alive decades later, Harley and Frank turned their backs on him. In time, however, Buzz made amends with them. During his time away from Springfield, he also married a woman named Sylvie and had a daughter, Lucy. Sylvie(who died sometime after) would abandon their family when Lucy was five and Buzz struggled for years on end to raise Lucy on his own. When Buzz took the money he had saved for Lucy's future to pay for Harley and A.C. Mallet's wedding as a gift, Lucy headed to Springfield to confront her father and met her entire family for the first time. She also eventually decided to stay for good.