This is a list of characters from the ABC Daytime soap opera, One Life
to Live, that began their run between the beginning of 1990 and the
end of 1999.Nigel Bartholomew-Smythe is a fictional character from the
American soap opera One Life to Live. Peter Bartlett played the role
from May 1991 until the series ended on January 13, 2012. He returned
to the role April 29, 2013, when the show resumed on Hulu, iTunes, and
FX Canada via The Online Network. Nigel is the longtime butler and
confidante of billionaire Asa Buchanan. In 2009, Barlett began also
playing the role of Nigel's cousin, Neville Smythe.Nigel
Bartholomew-Smythe is a fictional character from the American soap
opera One Life to Live. Peter Bartlett played the role from May 1991
until the series ended on January 13, 2012. He returned to the role
April 29, 2013, when the show resumed on Hulu, iTunes, and FX Canada
via The Online Network. Nigel is the longtime butler and confidante of
billionaire Asa Buchanan. In 2009, Barlett began also playing the role
of Nigel's cousin, Neville Smythe.In early 2003, Nigel is romantically
linked to Roxy Balsom.In October 2006, David Vickers finds out that
Asa once had an affair with David's mother, Emma Bradley, but Asa
denies it. Later, David's brother Spencer Truman claims to be Asa's
son, but a DNA test proves otherwise. A conversation between Asa and
Nigel hints that there is more to the story. On August 16, 2007, Asa
dies in his sleep and is found by Nigel. At the funeral on August 17,
2007 Nigel tells a returned Max Holden that Asa has another son: David
Vickers. Max advises Nigel to wait to tell the rest of the family;
meanwhile, an eavesdropping Alex Olanov seeks out David. Nigel
inherits Asa's yacht and private island, but in his video will Asa
announces the existence of his other son; Nigel is tasked to inform
this son of his parentage "when the time is right." Alex returns,
married to an in-the-dark David, and blackmails Nigel with the facts
of David's parentage. Not wanting the Buchanans to discover that con
man David is one of them, Nigel gives his inheritance to Alex in
exchange for her silence. Nigel has a cousin Neville who is the
Buchanan mansion butler to the Buchanans living in London, England.
Nigel later becomes a butler to Clint Buchanan, his wife Nora
Buchanan, Clint's brother Bo Buchanan, and Bo and Nora's son Matthew
Buchanan after Asa gives the Buchanan Mansion to Nora in his will.
After Clint and Nora divorce in 2010, Nigel soely works for Clint
after Clint wins ownership of the mansion from Nora in their divorce
settlement. After Clint has a heart attack in the spring of 2011 and
is blackmailed for a piece of his fortune and the deed to the Buchanan
Mansion in exchange for committing his mentally ill daughter Jessica
Buchanan to St. Anne's by her then husband and con artist Cutter
Wentworth, Clint loses ownership of the mansion to Cutter, and Nigel
then works as Cutter's butler, along with his house guests Vimal Patel
and his wife Rama Patel. Cutter later loses ownership of the mansion
when Rex Balsom blackmails his estranged father Clint for the entire
Buchanan fortune and the mansion in exchange for Clint to get the
heart of Rex's dead fiancée Gigi Morasco. Clint then enlists Nigel to
evict Cutter, Vimal, and Rama out of the mansion on June 28, 2011.
However, on July 8, 2011, Rex fires Nigel as the mansion's butler
because he can't trust Nigel because of his friendship with Clint.
Nigel is later hired by Clint to be his butler/confidante when he is
under house arrest for twenty years at his ex-wife Victoria Lord's
Llanfair estate for committing recent various crimes. Nigel attempts
to fend off a briefly deranged Brody Lovett when he kidnaps Natalie
Buchanan's son Liam McBain from Llanfair after word breaks out that
police detective John McBain is the biological father of Natalie's
child. Nigel's is knocked out by Brody and tended to by Roxy. They
begin to grow close once again, especially when their beloved soap
opera, Fraternity Row goes off the air. List of One Life to Live characters (1990s) Top Movies & Young Movies