Robert S. Woods

Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Robert Sosebee Woods (born March 13, 1948) is an American actor best known for playing Bo Buchanan on the ABC soap One Life to Live,<ref name="SOD stats">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Soaps.com profile">Template:Cite web</ref> a role for which he won the 1983 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.<ref name="Emmy 1983">Template:Cite web</ref>

Early life

In 1966 Woods graduated from Lakewood High School in Lakewood, California, where he served as senior class president, and a cheerleader. He later joined the U.S. Armed Forces and fought in the Vietnam War. Woods ultimately graduated from California State University, Long Beach where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Career

Woods began portraying Bo Buchanan – a Vietnam War veteran – on the ABC soap One Life to Live in 1979,<ref name="SOD stats"/><ref name="Soaps.com profile"/> winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1983.<ref name="Emmy 1983"/> He left the series in 1986 and returned 1988, and continued the role until the series cancellation in 2012.<ref name="SOD stats"/><ref name="Soaps.com profile"/> Woods also earned Daytime Emmy nominations in 1986,<ref name="Emmy 1986">Template:Cite web</ref> 1993,<ref name="Emmy 1993">Template:Cite web</ref> 1994,<ref name="Emmy 1994">Template:Cite web</ref> 1999,<ref name="Emmy 1999">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2000,<ref name="Emmy 2000">Template:Cite web</ref> multiple Soap Opera Digest Award nominations, and four MVP trophies from Soap Opera Update.<ref name="SOD stats"/>

Woods has also appeared on television series such as Roseanne and the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. He appeared in eight episodes of The Waltons, four credited as "Robert Merritt Woods" and four as "Christopher Woods."

Woods is also the voiceover in the animated TV spot for JPMorgan Chase & Co. which debuted in October 2010.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Big Wednesday	Lifeguard (as Christopher Woods)	Feature film
1978	Repairs	Peter	Short film
1979	The China Syndrome	Uncredited role	Feature film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	City of Angels	Young man at car (uncredited)	Episode: "Match Point"
	The Waltons	Dr. David Spencer (credited as Robert Merritt Woods)	Episode: "The Vigil" Episode" "The Fire storm" Episode: "The Wedding: Part 1" Episode: "The Wedding: Part 2"
1977	Family	Steve ccredited as Chrisopher Woods)	Episode: "Acts of Love: Part 1"
	Just a Little Inconvenience	First Sergeant (credited as Christopher Woods)	Television movie (NBC)
	The Night They Took Miss Beautiful	Uncredited role	Television movie (NBC)
1978-1979	Project U.F.O.	Captain William Coleman (credited as Christopher Woods)	Episode: "Sighting 4001: The Washington D.C. Incident" (1978)
		First Lt. Bob King - Co-Pilot (as Christopher Woods)	Episode: "Sighting 4003: The Fremont Incident" (1978)
		Lt. Carmichael (as Christopher Woods)	Episode: "Sighting 4007: The Forest City Incident" (1978)
		Tom Pederson (as Christopher Woods)	Episode: "Sighting 4025: The Whitman Tower Incident" (1979)
	The Waltons	Dr. David Spencer (credited as Christopher Woods)	Episode: "The Anniversary" (1978) Episode: "The Obsession" (1979) Episode: "The Pin-Up" (1979) Episode: "The Attack" (1979)
1979–1986, 1988–2012 (shown on ABC) 2013 (revival shown on Hulu Channel)	One Life to Live	Beaufort "Bo" Oglethorpe Buchanan	Daytime serial @ ABC (contract role @ 765 episodes) Daytime serial @ Hulu (contract role @ 40 episodes) For Daytime Emmy info, see Awards and nominations section below for details
1982	Fantasies	Clint McDougall	Television movie (ABC)
1985	Chase	Sheriff Dean Hartley	Television movie (CBS)
1986	Newhart	Hal Foster	Episode: "High Fidelity"
1986-1987	Days of Our Lives	Paul Stewart	Daytime serial (contract role @ 54 episodes)
1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Skip	Episode: "Changing Patterns" (unsold TV pilot)
	Carly's Web	Donald Stevens	Television movie (NBC)
1988	War and Remembrance	Lt. Cmdr. Eugene Lindsey (Enterprise)	Television miniseries (12-part on ABC); he only appeared in Episodes I & III
1992	Swamp Thing	Ryson	Episode: "Pay Day"
1994	Roseanne	Beaufort "Bo" Oglethorpe Buchanan	Episode: "Isn't It Romantic?"
1995	Deadly Love	Jim King	Television movie (Lifetime Television)
2005	All My Children	Beaufort "Bo" Oglethorpe Buchanan	Episode: #9018, #9027 & #9029 (guest role)
2013	The Grove	Unknown character	Television movie (unsold pilot for web series)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
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Personal life

Woods is married to actress Loyita Chapel and lives in New York. The couple have a son, Tanner Woods, who played a young Bo on One Life to Live in an August 26, 2008 flashback to 1968.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Tanner was a twin, whose sibling died at the age of one month.

Woods was good friends with on-screen father Phil Carey.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

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• Robert S. Woods biography at ABC Daytime