15 Facts About Victor Lord

Victor Dalby Lord is a fictional character and patriarch of the Lord family from the American soap opera One Life to Live.

An original protagonist on the series, Victor is introduced in the first episode as the preeminent mass media magnate of fictional Philadelphia Main Line suburb Llanview, Pennsylvania.

Victor Lord was originally and most notably played by actor Ernest Graves.

Series creator and then-scriptwriter Agnes Nixon originally created the character of Victor Lord based on her father, Harry Eckhardt.

Victor Lord crafted the role in an attempt to understand the reserved, domineering Eckhardt patriarch, an entrepreneur who financially thrived during the Great Depression manufacturing funeral garments.

Victor Lord thereby goes about grooming his eldest child, Viki, to assume the role of running the estate by hiring her as an editor for his newspaper.

Victor Lord meddles in the personal relationships of his daughters, causing a rift between him and Victoria.

Victor Lord embarks on a search for the son he had long yearned for.

Victor Lord is devastated by her death, and he leaves Llanview in 1974 in search for his heir-presumptive son.

When Victor reappears in December 1974 and suffers a heart attack, and an unemployed Dorian decides to use him to get even with the Lord family.

When Tony and Victor Lord learn of Dorian's scheme, Tony first confronts Dorian, who denies having done anything wrong.

Soon, Victor Lord suffers a second stroke which sends him back to the hospital.

Recovered, Viki later uncovers in 1988 that she had a daughter, Megan Gordon, while under the hypnosis insisted upon by Victor Lord and delivered by her longtime friend and brother-in-law, Larry.

Later revealed to be a forgery, the diary claims dead Irene smothered Victor Lord, exonerating Dorian at the eleventh hour.

Victor Lord dies on-screen in March 2003, a month before a shocked Dorian returns to Llanview.