Buzz Cooper

Infobox soap character
series = Guiding Light
name= Buzz Cooper
portrayer = Justin Deas
creator =
first = February 1993
last =


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gender = Male
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death =
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occupation = Owner of CO2 and Company restaurants
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residence =
parents = Dante Kouperakis (Father, deceased)
* Unnamed Woman (Mother, deceased)
siblings =
spouse = Nadine Corley (divorced; preshow)
* Sylvia Estevan (dissolved by her death; preshow)
* Nadine Corley (divorced; 1994)
* Jenna Bradshaw (dissolved by her death; 1995-1996)
* Reva Shayne (divorced; 1998)
romances = Randi Hemby (ex-lovers)
* Selena Davis (engaged; broken off)
*Alexandra Spaulding (dated)
*Olivia Spencer (Dated/Engaged)
* Lillian Raines (Dating)
children = Frank Cooper Jr. (Son, with Nadine Cooper)
*Harley Cooper Aitoro (Daughter, with Nadine Cooper)
* Lucille "Lucy" Cooper (Daughter, with Sylvie Cooper)
*Henry Cooper "Coop" Bradshaw (Son, with Jenna Bradshaw)
* Ian Stavros "Rocky" Cooper (Adopted Son, with Jenna Bradshaw)
grandchildren = Marina Cooper (Granddaughter, via Frank)
*Susan "Daisy" Lemay (Granddaughter, via Harley)
*Alan Cooper "Zach" Spaulding (Grandson, via Harley)
*Jude Cooper Bauer (Grandson, via Harley)
grandparents =
aunts/uncles =Stavros Kouperakis (Paternal Uncle)
cousins =
relatives = Baby Rivera (Maternal Great-Grandchild; via Daisy)
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Frank Achilles "Buzz" Cooper Sr. is a fictional character on the popular CBS daytime soap opera, "Guiding Light".

The character of Buzz was originated by Justin Deas in February 1993 and he has been with the show since. Deas has been nominated four times over the years at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actor, most recently in 2005. He has won three times in 1994, 1995 and 1997 respectively.

Character history

Buzz is a former Vietnam war veteran who deserted his wife and children by volunteering for a second tour of duty after serving his first straight out of high school. The young Cooper children were told by their mother that Buzz had died in action and when he was revealed to be alive decades later, Harley and Frank turned their backs on him. In time, however, Buzz made amends with them. During his time away from Springfield, he also married a woman named Sylvie and had a daughter, Lucy. Sylvie would abandon their family when Lucy was five and Buzz struggled for years on end to raise Lucy on his own. When Buzz took the money he had saved for Lucy's future to pay for Harley and A.C. Mallet's wedding as a gift, Lucy headed to Springfield to confront her father and met her entire family for the first time. She also eventually decided to stay for good.

Trivia

*Buzz formerly owned his family's restaurant, Company. He sold it to former son-in-law, Phillip Spaulding, as a truce in a bid to end their respective families' feud in 2004. Upon the latter's death, his daughter, Lizzie, inherited the restaurant and she renamed it "Elizabeth and Company". Lizzie promptly booted out the Cooper family (who had previously been living above the establishment). Buzz and the rest of the Coopers lived at the Bauer residence until Lizzie, after becoming involved with Buzz's son, Henry Cooper Bradshaw (Coop), gave Company back to the Cooper's.

*Buzz was awarded a Silver Star for killing a deranged soldier turned sniper while in Vietnam. He felt that the award was just a cover-up ploy and visited the G.I.'s pregnant wife, Sylvie, in the Philippines to break the news. Sylvie miscarried. Buzz would commit bigamy when he married the latter, mostly out of guilt.

*Buzz blackmailed ex-wife, Nadine, when he returned to Springfield for the first time in years in 1993 when the latter threatened to announce his true identity. Buzz countered by threatening to spill all about her so-called pregnancy with Nadine's then-husband, Billy Lewis. Nadine was forced to help Buzz out and passed off her ex-husband as her long-lost cousin, Rex Mancini.

Necessary information

In Finland, Buzz Cooper was the name of Buz Sawyer, a comic adventure strip character created by Roy Crane. Known also as Jori Sawyer, for reasons unknown.