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Clinton "Clint" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. He has been portrayed by Jerry verDorn since October 25, 2005. Clint was previously played by Clint Ritchie from 1979 to December 30, 1998; Ritchie also made additional guest appearances in 1999, 2003, and 2004.[2] John Brotherton played a young Clint in a 2008 storyline in which the characters Bo and Rex find themselves in 1968.[3]
Storylines
The eldest son of Buchanan patriarch Asa Buchanan and his first wife Olympia, Clint moves to Llanview to take over as editor for The Banner. The newspaper's previous editor, Joe Riley, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. After a failed relationship with Pat Ashley, Clint becomes close to Joe's widow Victoria Lord Riley; they eventually marry. Clint adopts Viki's two sons, Kevin and Joey.
Clint and Viki's marriage is strong but troubled; it is ultimately jeopardized by Viki's multiple personality disorder, which recurs when Viki discovers that her former ward Tina Clayton is actually her sister. Tina makes an enemy in Clint as she conspires to use Viki's illness to take control of their father Victor Lord's fortune, but Clint and Viki triumph and have a child of their own, Jessica, in 1986. That same year, Clint discovers that he is the father of former flame Maria Roberts' adult son Cord, who is now married to Tina. Over the years, Clint and Viki endure much domestic drama, from indiscretions between them, Viki's battles with multiple personality disorder and family squabbles among the Lords, Cramers and Buchanans. Married and divorced twice, the two remain great friends.
In 2001 it is revealed that Viki had in fact been drugged and raped by Mitch Laurence in 1986, and given birth to twins. Mitch is in fact the father of Jessica; Clint had fathered Jessica's twin, Natalie Balsom. Mitch had infant Natalie kidnapped and raised by another couple, and he orchestrates her return in 2001 to devastate Viki and her family.
Clint leaves town for London in 1998, returning for several brief periods. In 2005 he returns for an extended stay, and soon breaks it off with girlfriend Dallas Jones. The entire family is devastated by Asa's death in August 2007, and Bo and Clint form a closer bond. Clint's relationship with Viki is complicated by his subsequent romance with Dorian Lord, Viki's longtime nemesis. After Clint's messy breakup with Dorian, she seeks revenge by taking over Buchanan Enterprises. Romance begins to blossom between Clint and his brother Bo's ex-wife Nora Hanen, only to be temporarily complicated by the return of Clint's ex-girlfriend Dallas in July 2008. With Nora's help, Clint finally gets BE back from Dorian. In 2009, Bo and Nora are thrown together when their son Matthew is paralyzed in an accident; threatened by their closeness, Clint proposes. He and Nora marry, though Bo and Nora kiss the night before. Bo and Nora soon find themselves back in love; finding out, a vengeful Clint reveals the affair publicly to negatively impact Bo and Nora's careers. Though Asa had left his mansion to Nora, Clint forces her to sign it over to him or risk a costly lawsuit for damages to his reputation as a result of her affair. Clint encourages new mayor Dorian to fire Bo as Police Commissioner, and resumes an affair with his assistant, ex-stripper Kimberly Andrews. They marry on March 11, 2010.
David Vickers comes to town and threatens Kimberly with information that would ruin her life. The only way David will not reveal this information is if she leaves Clint. Kimberly comes up with a story on how she cheated on Clint and how she cannot live with herself any longer because of it. Kimberly leaves the mansion and has not been seen since.
On July 29, 2010, Clint agrees with Dorian's plan that the two of them act as lovers in order to make David jealous. Clint then informs Dorian that he is interested in naming a town park after his father. He insists that Dorian keep him posted of current naming bids. Clint has started to become very ruthless. Blaming David for the breakdown of his marriage to Kimberly, he on the day of David's wedding to Dorian has him abducted. He alerts the Moroccan authorities and his past crimes are reinstated and he winds up in a Moroccan prison. Clint then forges a break-up note for Dorian to make it appear to her and the citizens of Llanview that he is a loser who can't commit to a real relationship. Dorian is heartbroken, much to Clint's delight. When Rex discovers evidence that Clint had David jailed, Clint threatens to have Gigi's financial aid for college revoked in an effort to keep him quiet. Rex complies and keeps the secret even though he is disgusted that he has to keep it from Bo, whom he regards as a father.
Clint has developed an affection for Inez Sallinger, the mother of Nate, Ford and James. Trying to win her heart he helps them out of their financial debt and gets Ford his job at the university back. When Clint learns that Ford is possibly the father of Jessica's unborn baby, he has two goons rough him up. He believes that Ford had taken advantage of her in her fragile condition. He states that while he is fond of Ford's mother, "family comes first."
In October 2010, Echo Disavoy returns for unknown purposes. She corners Clint at Rod's, and he makes it very clear that he wants nothing to do with her and to stay away from Vicki and Charlie. Echo contends that she merely wants to patch things up, to make amends to everyone she has hurt. Clint doesn't buy it and leaves. Later, at the hospital, on his way to see Inez and Ford, he runs into Echo again. She brings up their affair again by showing him an antique half-crescent moon necklace he supposedly gave to her. Echo tells him that it was handcrafted in New Mexico and he had it made for her as a gift. Clint says he has no idea what she's talking about. Echo says that the necklace was a full piece but she left one half of it in Llanview hospital years before, along with another "precious belonging."
A private investigator whom Clint had secretly hired to follow Rex Balsom returns from New Mexico with the other half of the necklace, which Rex had left on the grave of his supposed mother, Lilli, months before. This suggests that he has some connection to Rex's parents. He is later reading a book titled The Love Letters of Rick and Lilli which are the names of Rex's supposed parents. Vicki, after reading one of the various love letters to Rex's mother, finds it oddly familiar, as if she's read or heard it before. Echo meets Clint for dinner on November 5, 2010, revealing that the two of them are Rex's real biological parents. Clint confesses he's known about Rex for a long time but kept the truth from him because he sees him as a "gold-digging piece of trash" It is also revealed that he forged the letters between "Rick" and "Lilli" to prevent Rex from learning the truth. He warns Echo not to reveal the truth, and he threatens to have Rex put in prison for a long time if she talks.
When a DNA test is administered later to determine Rex's parentage, Clint has his assitant Vimal change the results so it seems tghat Charlie Banks is Rex's biological father. He also has Vimal change the paternity test of his daughter so the father reads, Brody Lovett. (Vimal changed the wrong test, he changed Natalie's and now she believes Brody is the father of her baby). On Thanksgiving, Clint asks Inez to sleep with Bo in an attempt to ruin his marriage to Nora. At first Inez refuses, but she is backed into a corner when he threatens her sons. Joey also returns and proposes to his girlfriend, Aubrey, very prematurely and in front of both Vicki and Clint. Clint believes that Aubrey is a gold-digger and advises his son against her.
Clint bails Eddie, Inez's abusive ex-husband, out of jail and instructs him to kidnap Nora and hold her hostage for a few hours, during which time Inez is to drug and seduce Bo. In the end, Inez cannot go through with the seduction, but she does falsely tell Bo that they had sex. Eddie is murdered and the murder weapon is found in Inez's apartment. Nate says he killed Eddie, although people have their doubts. Clint also begins to plant seeds of doubt in Mathew, saying that Bo and Inez have been having an affair. Clint goes to see Nora and Bo in the hospital after she is involved in a car accident while escaping from Eddie, he advises Bo to keep quiet about the one night stand. Inez later tells to Clint that they never slept together, but Clint still preasures her to remain silent or he will implicate her sons in their father's murder. When Bo tells Nora he slept with Inez she kicks him out and Clint invites him to live with him. Clint arrives at the hospital as both Natalie and Jessica give birth to newborn sons and Clint is overjoyed. At Nate's trial Inez confesses everything to Bo and Nora that Clint made her do. Bo later confronts his brother at gunpoint. Clint tells Bo that he had this coming. That Bo never gave a seconds thought on the plans that Clint had for him and Nora and that he didn't care that he humiliated his brother. Bo tells Clint that he is no longer a Buchanan and walks away disgusted.
Soon after, Clint's antics in regard to hiding Rex's paternity and the switching of test results for Natalie and Jessica come to light. Everyone, in particular Viki, is left furious with Clint and refuses to believe him when he tells them that Joey's new wife, Aubrey Wentworth is a con artist. So Clint enlists the aid of Kelly in exposing Aubrey.
