He is best known for his the acting role as Clinton " Clint " Buchanan, husband of Victoria " Viki " Lord ( played by Erika Slezak ) on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live ; having originated the character in 1979, portrayed the role through 1998, with recurring stints in 1999, 2003, and 2004.

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Victoria " Viki " Lord ( formerly Gordon, Riley, Burke, Buchanan, Carpenter, Davidson, and Banks ) is the principal fictional character and matriarch of the Lord family on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

Joe is presumed dead in a car accident in 1970, and a heartbroken Viki ( briefly, Joanne Dorian ) finds comfort with fellow reporter Steve Burke ( Bernie Grant ) in 1971.

After Steve is put on trial and exonerated for the murder of Banner secretary Marcy Wade ( Francesca James ), he and Viki ( now, Slezak onward ) marry in 1972.

When a very-much alive Joe returns in-time for the nuptials, having survived his supposedly deadly car accident, Viki is forced to choose between two husbands.

In 1974, Dr. Dorian Cramer ( then, Nancy Pinkerton ) blames board member Viki for her suspension from Llanview Hospital, and a rivalry is born that will last decades.

Viki and Joe have a son, Kevin Lord Riley, who is soon kidnapped by jealous sister-in-law Cathy Craig Lord ( Jennifer Harmon ), but is later returned.

In 1978, Viki takes in Tina Clayton ( Andrea Evans ), whom she is told is the sixteen-year-old daughter of her best friend Irene Manning Clayton ( Kate McKeown ), who is apparently dying of cancer.

Shortly after Irene dies, Viki goes on trial for the murder of her nemesis Marco Dane ( Gerald Anthony ), but she is later exonerated following confessional testimony by Karen Wolek ( Judith Light ).

Clint is later exonerated after Echo is found alive, and he and Viki reunite.

Viki's memory is restored in 1989 when she meets Roger Gordon ( Larry Pine ), the father of her child, whom she had married at the time but had been presumed dead ; Viki has the marriage annulled at Clint's insistence.

Roger's daughter Megan Gordon ( Jessica Tuck ) is revealed to also be Viki's daughter ; she and Viki find each other disagreeable at first, but ultimately get past their initial conflicts and become close.

In 1990, Viki is elected mayor of Llanview, but a shooting and subsequent stroke leaves her paralyzed and in a wheelchair ; Niki Smith emerges to aid a paralyzed Viki stand up and shoot Johnny Dee Hesser ( Thom Christopher ) when he attacks Tina.

Viki recovers and later donates a kidney to Megan, who is suffering from lupus ; despite the transplant, Megan dies, leaving Viki devastated.

Dorian is eventually freed from her confinement, and Viki recovers after realizing she herself ( more specifically, one of her alternate personalities ) was the one who had smothered Victor to death in 1976.

In 1995, reviled town outcast Todd Manning ( Roger Howarth ) is proven to be Victor and Irene's illegitimate son ; Viki and Todd eventually become close.

Niki has had two serious relationships with Vince Wolek ( 1968 – 69 ) and Harry O ' Neill ( 1985 ); neither Vinny or Harry realized at the time that Niki was an alter of Viki.

On trial, Karen saved her friend Viki Lord Riley ( Erika Slezak ) from being convicted of killing Karen's pimp, Marco Dane ( Gerald Anthony ) by admitting to the entire town, including her faithful husband, Dr. Larry Wolek ( Michael Storm ), that she had been a prostitute.

To save Maya's honor, Viki sends a marriage proposal for her.

Viki, riding with the army, sees Maya and calls to her, but she doesn't respond.

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One of the longest-running characters on American daytime television, Viki has weathered widowhood ( three times ), divorce, a brain aneurysm, a near-death out-of-body experience ( three times ), being shot ( two times ), suffering a stroke, breast cancer, rape, a heart attack, heart disease, a heart transplant, the abduction of three of her five children as infants, the deaths of two siblings, and the death of her daughter from lupus.

Torn between pleasing her father and following her heart, Viki develops a wild alternate personality named " Niki Smith ", who falls in love with Vinny Wolek ( Antony Ponzini ).

After a disastrous relationship with con man Ted Clayton, who brainwashes and drugs her in an attempt to get his hands on her fortune, Viki marries newspaper editor Clint Buchanan ( Clint Ritchie ) in 1982 ; he adopts both of her sons.

Posing as Viki, Niki divorces Clint ; Viki later overcomes her illness with the realization that it had actually been triggered by her witnessing Victor and Irene in bed many years before.

In 1988, Viki learns that she had given birth to a baby in high school, but her father had a hypnotist erase the memory.

On August 17, 2010, it was announced that after a twenty-seven year absence, Zimmer would reprise the role of Echo, effective October 1. Zimmer will be featured in a story along with former Guiding Light co-star Jerry verDorn ( Clint Buchanan ), Robin Strasser ( Dorian Cramer ) and Erika Slezak ( Viki Lord ).

Viki continues work at The Banner when Tina returns to town for the reading of the will of their recently-deceased brother, Victor, Jr. Clint's first-born son and Tina's ex-husband, Cord Roberts ( John Loprieno ), concurrently returns to Llanview.

Cord and Tina rekindle their old flame and soon remarry with Clint and Viki at their respective sides.

Viki's stress reaches a critical point when Dorian ( Robin Strasser, onward ) tells Viki a secret of which she thought Viki had been aware: the fact that Victor had sexually abused his daughter as a child.

At the finale, a prison breakout leads Allison Perkins to shoot both Clint and Viki, but only after telling the two that Jessica was in fact Clint's daughter and not the daughter of Mitch Laurence.

However, despite initial success with story lines including the mystery over who killed Nora's mentally ill assistant Georgie, fans began to voice displeasure when core characters such as Dorian's husband Mel and Bo's son Drew were killed and Dorian's daughter Cassie was written off the show, and principle characters such as Nora, Jessica and Viki were given stories revolving around the newly introduced Rappaport and Davidson families.

In the summer of 2003, Slezak's real-life daughter, Amanda Davies, portrayed a teenaged Viki in flashbacks.

Clint and Viki remarry in 1986, and Viki gives birth to their daughter Jessica Buchanan that same year.

In 2001, a girl named Natalie Balsom ( Melissa Archer ) makes the startling claim that she is Viki and Clint's biological daughter, which is confirmed by a DNA test.

Mitch's daughter had been taken during delivery, and Viki had never known that she had more than one child.

Mitch, however, had wanted his daughter to grow up loved by Viki in the lap of luxury, and had kidnapped Clint's child.

The eldest child of domineering millionaire publisher Victor Lord ( Ernest Graves ), Viki ( originally, Spencer ) has little time for romance when One Life to Live begins in 1968.

In 2003, Victor ( William Stone Mahoney ) is revealed to be alive, as he had faked his death years earlier ; however, shortly after he returns, Victor dies — but not before Viki gets a chance to confront him about the sexual abuse he inflicted upon her.

The Victor Lord personality only emerged two or three times, but one of the instances that he took over led Viki to attempt suicide by cutting her own wrists to " expel " Victor from her body.