Clint Buchanan

Clint Buchanan

JERRY VERDORN

Came to town: 1979
Marital Status: Married to Nora Hanen
Occupation: Buchanan Enterprises executive

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CHARACTER BIO

Equal parts Texas cowboy and prudent businessman, Clint Buchanan is solid stock. Frank, but fair, loving, but firm, Clint always has his family's back.

The Good

  • Adopted Viki Davidson's three children.
  • Discovered his two biological children, Cord and Natalie.

The Bad and the Ugly

  • Dealt with the troublemaking alternate personality of Viki, Niki Smith, for years.
  • Learned Jessica Buchanan was not his biological child.
  • Briefly lost Buchanan Enterprises to Dorian.

Friends

  • Jessica Buchanan: Daughter
  • Natalie Buchanan: Daughter
  • Viki Lord Davidson: Ex-wife
  • Bo Buchanan: Brother

Foes

  • Dorian Lord: Enemy

Love Interests

  • Nora Hanen
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ACTOR BIO

Emmy-winning actor Jerry verDorn joined the cast of One Life to Live in October 2005 in the role of Clint Buchanan. Mr. verDorn is also known to daytime audiences as Ross Marler on Guiding Light

Mr. verDorn joined the cast of Guiding Light in 1979 and was later honored with two consecutive Emmy Awards in 1995 and 1996 in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category. He ended his twenty-six year run on GL just before assuming the popular role of Clint Buchanan.

Mr. verDorn was born in Sioux Falls, SD. He attended Moorehead State University in Minnesota. He originally planned to be an English teacher but soon wound up in the theater department. During his undergraduate studies, he spent a year in London studying at Studio 68, an acting academy founded by Sean Connery and other British actors.

After graduation, Mr. verDorn was cast in the play Black Elk Speaks which moved from New Jersey to Washington D.C.'s Folger Theater. He was discovered by a manager who urged him to move to New York. Before heading to New York, he returned home for a season of summer theater and married his college sweetheart, Beth, in 1977.

In 1977, he was invited to appear as a guest artist at Rutgers University in a production of Eric Bentley's play Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? The play soon moved off-Broadway to the Promenade Theater and three months later, to Broadway. Mr. verDorn was simultaneously understudying George Grizzard in the lead role of Shaw's Man and Superman at Circle in the Square and performed in matinees for three months. During this production, he was discovered by Guiding Light and was cast in the role of Ross Marler.

In 1982, he and his wife reorganized the Playhouse on the Mall in Paramus, NJ where their company, Four Star Productions, presented a season of plays. In November 1982, Mr. verDorn appeared in the play The Star-Spangled Girl. He also played his Guiding Light character in the television movie The Cradle Will Fall.

Mr. verDorn is the father of two sons, Jacob and Peter.

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