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'''David Vickers''' is a fictional character from the American soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]],'' portrayed by [[Tuc Watkins]].

The character David Vickers was first introduced in 1994 by [[Tuc Watkins]], who played the character until 1996.<ref name="1997 Encyc OLTL">{{cite book|last=Waggett|first=Gerard J.|title=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia|publisher=[[Harper Paperbacks]]|date=November 1997|pages=[https://archive.org/details/soapoperaencyclo00wagg/page/163 163–188]|chapter=''One Life to Live''|isbn=978-0-06-101157-3|title-link=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Waggett book)}}</ref><ref name="SOD stats">{{cite web |url=http://www.soapoperadigest.com/soapstarstats/tucwatkinsbio/index.html |title=SOAP STAR STATS: Tuc Watkins (David, ''OLTL'') |work=[[Soap Opera Digest]] |access-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref> andHe then briefly reprised the role briefly in October 2001 and January 2002.<ref name="SC profile">{{cite web |url=http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/davidv.php |title=David Vickers profile |work=[[Soapcentral]] |access-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref><ref name="Soaps Vickers">{{cite web |url=http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/cast/274/David_Vickers |title=David Vickers profile |publisher=[[Soaps.com]] |access-date=July 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726050814/http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/cast/274/David_Vickers/ |archive-date=July 26, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Watkins returned from August 2003 through November 2006, and then for a five-month run starting March 6, 2007.<ref name="SOD stats"/> He reappeared again near the end of May 2007 and left on July 26, 2007, only to return temporarily in November 2007.<ref name="SC profile"/>

Watkins returned for another short-term run from May 7 to August 6, 2008,<ref name="SC profile"/><ref name="Soaps Vickers"/> and ''[[Soap Opera Digest]]'' subsequently named David their "Most Entertaining Male Character" of 2008, writing: "Time and time again, David's harebrained schemes and Tuc Watkins's side-splitting performances provide amusement we're always sorry to see end."<ref name="SOD 33-51">{{cite book |chapter=The Best & Worst of 2008 |title=Soap Opera Digest |pages=84 |date=December 16, 2008 |volume=33 |issue=51|title-link=Soap Opera Digest }}</ref> Watkins returned again from December 26, 2008,<ref name="Soaps Vickers"/><ref name="Watkins SOD 33-52">{{cite book |chapter=Comings and Goings: Tuc Watkins (David Vickers) |title=Soap Opera Digest |pages=16 |date=December 23, 2008 |volume=33 |issue=52}}</ref><ref name="Carousel">{{cite web |url=http://www.soapoperanetwork.com/soaps/oltl/news/603-one-life-casting-carousel |title=''One Life'' Casting Carousel |date=December 19, 2008 |last=Gore |first=Scotty |publisher=SoapOperaNetwork.com |access-date=December 23, 2008 |archive-date=January 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102132331/http://www.soapoperanetwork.com/soaps/oltl/news/603-one-life-casting-carousel |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ABC 2008-12-26">{{Cite web |url=http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20081226.html |title=''One Life to Live'' recap (12/26/08) - ABC.com |access-date=2009-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230182714/http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/2008/20081226.html |archive-date=2008-12-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> though March 2, 2009,<ref name="Soaps.com 2009-03-02">[http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/6174/Roxy_Visits_Rexs_Father ''One Life to Live'' recap (3/2/09) - Soaps.com]</ref> later reappearing on April 7, 2009,<ref name="Soaps.com 2009-04-07">[http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/6381/Dorian_Gets_A_Dose_Of_Hemorrhoid_Treatment ''One Life to Live'' recap (4/7/09) - Soaps.com]</ref> and on April 22,<ref name="Soaps.com 2009-04-22">[http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/6471/A_Devastating_Reunion_In_The_Morgue ''One Life to Live'' recap (4/22/09) - Soaps.com]</ref> April 23,<ref name="Soaps.com 2009-04-23">[http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/6480/Reassessing_The_Future ''One Life to Live'' recap (4/23/09) - Soaps.com]</ref> and April 27, 2009.<ref name="Soaps.com 2009-04-27">[http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/6493/Caught_With_A_Stash ''One Life to Live'' recap (4/27/09) - Soaps.com]</ref> Watkins returned on August 10, 2009,<ref name="Soaps.com 2009-08-10">[http://www.soaps.com/onelifetolive/update/7101/Matthews_Day_In_Court_Begins ''One Life to Live'' recap (8/10/09) - Soaps.com]</ref> February 2010, April 2010, and June 2010. Watkins reprised the role continually from late 2010 through the original television finale episode aired on January 12, 2012, and reprised the role when new daily episodes of ''OLTL'' debuted on [[Hulu]], [[iTunes]], and [[FX Canada]] via [[The Online Network]] on April 29, 2013.<ref>{{cite news |title='All My Children,' 'One Live to Live' reborn via Hulu |author=Hal Boedeker |url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2013/01/all-my-children-one-live-to-live-reborn-via-hulu.html |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=25 January 2013 |access-date=26 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130050628/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2013/01/all-my-children-one-live-to-live-reborn-via-hulu.html |archive-date=30 January 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=One Life To Live, All My Children – New Episodes On The Way This Spring Via Hulu, iTunes |author=Jolie Lash |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/one-life-to-live-all-my-children-new-episodes-on-the-way-this-spring-via-hulu-itunes_article_75634 |newspaper=[[Access Hollywood]] |date=25 January 2013 |access-date=26 January 2013}}</ref> Watkins also appeared on ''[[All My Children]]'' for several episodes in 2005.

In 2007, David spends time in prison for a crime he did not commit. Asa Buchanan had agreed to pay him $10 million to murder Spencer Truman. When Truman wasis murdered by Lindsay Rappaport, David pleadedpleads guilty in order to receive the payoff. While David is in prison, [[Jessica Buchanan]] is in need of a liver transplant. Dorian visits David and asks him to get tested to see if he is a match. He is not interested in helping Jessica, but takes the test anyway.

Jessica's body rejects a transplant from her husband, Antonio Vega. It is revealed that David is a match. David does not want to donate part of his liver but is willing to do it for a fee. He tells Clint Buchanan that he will agree to the surgery for $10 million. Clint takes the deal and states that he will not tell Viki about the [[Bribery|bribe]].

In November 2007, David is stalked at Dreamland, a pricey rehab facility on an unnamed tropical island, by [[Alex Olanov]]. At the funeral of [[Asa Buchanan]] in August, Olanov overheardoverhears Nigel tell [[Max Holden (One Life to Live)|Max Holden]] that David is Asa's biological son. Olanov also learns that David is at the resort not as a client/patient, but is working there as a towel boy/waiter. Alex pretends to be there to treat her addiction to sex (aggravated when her wealthy ex-husband dieddies) but cons the broke Vickers into marrying him to help her "cure" her addiction. Smelling a fun ride through the money Alex received from her dead ex-husband, David quickly agrees to marry Alex. Olanov gets David to sign a prenup, which gives him half of her earnings and her half of his earnings in a divorce. Thinking he's completely broke, David eagerly signs the document. Olanov and Vickers then fly to Texas, where [[Clint Buchanan]], [[Nora Buchanan]], [[ReneRenee Divine Buchanan]], [[Jessica Buchanan]], [[Nash Brennan]], [[Natalie Buchanan]], [[Jared Banks]], [[Nigel Bartholomew-Smythe]], and [[Matthew Buchanan]] have all gone for the reading of Asa's will. David is at this point still in the dark about his new family and inheritance. David and Alex run into [[Dorian Lord|Dorian]] at the airport on their way to Texas. At the ranch—when Dorian misinterprets a kiss between Clint and Nora, sheNora—she and David wind up having sex (which Clint discovers the next morning). After Alex discovers that Asa left Vickers no money in the will, she dumps David.

On May 7, 2008, David works as a dishwasher in [[Paris, Texas]]. Escaping the watchful eyes of Llanview, Jared and [[Natalie Buchanan]] &mdash; who now knows Jared is not her uncle, and hasis fallen intohaving an affair with him &mdash; arrive at the Bon Jour. Overhearing their secret, David follows them back to Llanview and blackmails them. As they would rather reveal their scam to the family than pay David, Dorian reveals the secret to aid her in taking over [[Buchanan Enterprises]]. Clint and his brother [[Bo Buchanan]] reluctantly agree to her terms on June 18, 2008, and are shocked (and suspicious) at the news that David is their brother. Meanwhile, David marries Dorian's sister [[Addie Cramer]] for financial safety but reluctantly divorces her in exchange for Dorian saving Viki's life after a car crash. He tries to continue his relationship with Addie as leverage to force Dorian into relinquishing the renamed Cramer Enterprises back to Clint. However, Addie dumps David, as both marriage and divorce were part of an eccentric "to do list" that Addie had created after being released from St. Ann's sanitarium.<ref name="SOD 33-51"/>

On August 17, 2010, Dorian and David admit their love for one another and have [[sex]]. David "proposes" and Dorian accepts. On August 18, Dorian and David and Eli and Blair plan on having a double wedding, but that plan is thwarted by Clint, who kidnaps David and, by letter, makes Dorian believe that David had left her again.

David is eventually rescued from his prison cell and is soon reunited with his father and [[Rex Balsom]], who is now his cousin. Upon his return he and Dorian reunite after he saves her from the clutches of [[Cutter Wentworth]], a gold-digging con-artist who was trying to seduce Dorian for her money. Dorian and David then remarry for the third time. He also is cast in a film based on his life and has Dorian's daughter [[Langston Wilde]] write the script for it, while her ex-boyfriend, [[Markko Rivera]], is set to direct it, leading to the pair's romantic reconciliation. David returned from Hollywood, California, in June 2011 with Dorian, only to be arguing with each other when Dorian accuses David of having an affair with his co-star Ionia Masters, who plays his onscreen version of his wife Dorian in the big screen biopic ''Vicker Man''. David and Dorian are both unaware that [[Echo DiSavoy]] is paying Ionia to seduce David away from Dorian to avenge her for helping Viki to ruin her affair with Viki's ex-husband [[Charlie Banks (One Life to Live)|Charlie Banks]], although David is suspicious that someone is setting him up to ruin his marriage. David accuses Clint at first, but Dorian reminds him that Clint's health problems at the time are preventing him from performing these type of machinations towards them. When David later has a conversation with Viki, talking to her about all the people he is known in his life who would hold a grudge against him, Viki eventually figures out that Echo was the person who was sabotaging his marriage to Dorian. David and Viki later go to Dorian's La Boulaie estate to tell Dorian the truth, but they both discover that Dorian has vanished from her home. Viki tries to calm David down after his wife's disappearance. Dorian eventually reunites with David at the police station after she was kidnapped by Echo and held hostage at the Minute Man Motel. She was rescued by her seven-year-old grand nephewgrandnephew [[Sam Manning (One Life to Live)|Sam Manning]] while he was wearing a [[Spider-Man]] mask. David and Dorian go back home to the La Boulaie estate, where they have sex. David and Dorian later attend the premiere of their film ''Vicker Man'' at the Palace Hotel, where Dorian gets into a confrontation with Ionia because they are wearing identical dresses. David helps break up the fight between them when David has the film's director Markko send Ionia home in a cab. David and Dorian's film premiere is unfortunately upstaged by porn producer Rick Powers, when he switches the ''Vicker Man'' film with his porno film ''Hold The Diploma'', which stars local Llanview teenagers [[Nate Salinger]] and [[Deanna Forbes]]. David and Dorian both later learn that Rick put the ''Vicker Man'' film on the internet.

In August 2011, David's agent offers him a role in a big blockbuster film project that is going to be filmed in [[Stockholm, Sweden]]; David gladly accepts. David tells Dorian about the role and wants Dorian to move with him to Sweden. Dorian tells David that she cannot go because she got a call to become a senator in [[Washington, D.C.]], because the previous senator was involved in a [[sexting]] scandal. David wants to put his acting career on hold to be with Dorian in Washington, D.C. while she is senator. Dorian says that David cannot do that because he would get bored cheat on her. David and Dorian mutually agree to balance their marriage with their own busy careers. David goes to Sweden to film his film for three months and comes back to Washington, D.C., on Election Night to be there to support Dorian to win the senatorial election. David says good-bye to his family and Dorian before he leaves to go do his film in Sweden. He also says good-bye to his best friend, Viki, after seeing her and Dorian trapped in her mayoral office.

David returned to Llanview one last time on January 12, 2012, to visit Bo, Nora, and Matthew. He tells them that his latest Swedish film, ''The Boy with The Chipmunk Tattoo'', bombed at the box office. He convinces Matthew to be there for the birth of his child with Destiny before he goes back to [[Washington, D.C.]], to tell Dorian the bad news about his second unsuccessful film.

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