Victor Lord

Victor Lord

Victor Dalby Lord, Sr. is a fictional character and patriarch of the Lord family on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

An original male protagonist on the series, Victor is introduced on the second episode as the preeminent mass media magnate of fictional Philadelphia Main Line suburb Llanview, Pennsylvania. Victor was originally and most notably played by actor Ernest Graves. Graves debuted July 16, 1968 and played the role until the actor left the series and last appeared onscreen in March 1974.

Series creator Agnes Nixon and executive producer Doris Quinlan subsequently recast Victor to Shepperd Strudwick, who first appeared in December 1974 and played the role until the character's initial on-screen death in June 1976.