Robert Ford is a fictional character from the ABC original soap opera One Life to Live.

Gregory was upgraded to contract status in December 2009, and he remained on the show through the end of its run, last airing January 10, 2012.

Originally, his role was meant to be short term, but Gregory is later placed on contract and returns in December 2009.

In an interview with Michael Fairman, Gregory reveals the producers original plan for Ford: "Initially they were going to have him, you know a well suited up producer, kind of slick and then when they wrote that scene [the barn scene], I remember thinking, 'This is kind of unlike anything we've done before."

After Viki kicks David out, the film crew moves on to the Buchanan mansion and takes up temporary residence in the horse stables.

Langston Wilde goes looking for her boyfriend Markko Rivera, who is working as the cameraman, when she spies Ford trying to beat the heat by pouring a bucket of water over his head and bare chest.

Ford hits on Layla Williamson while working out at the gym but backs off after learning she is dating Cristian Vega.

Llanview University student Hannah O'Connor, who had been paired up with Cole Thornhart on a class project, confides in Cole that she has recently broken up with her boyfriend and then gotten involved with an older man, a teaching assistant at Llanview University who dumped her after they had sex.

Hannah confronts Ford at the diner, in front of Cole and Markko, about dumping her after they had sex.

Ford later finds Jessica Buchanan (who thinks she is a seventeen-year-old in high school) crying on his doorstep after Cristian rejects her and proposes to Layla.

After the whole Eli mess blows over, he tries to get Langston to take him back, but she does not fall for it and makes sure he doesn't come near her again.

Langston records her and Ford's love scene and turns it in to the dean's office immediately.

On February 14, 2011, Ford learns he is Ryder's biological father from Access Llanview and that Clint had Jessica's DNA test changed, although everybody believed that it was only Vimal's doing.

As Ford is about to see Langston for their Valentine's Day date, he bumps into Jessica who reveals that she is really her alter, Tess.

Ford is upset that he may never get to know his son, so Tess comes up with a plan to fix that, and the two leave town for Las Vegas.

Although they're falling in love, Ford attempts to bargain with Aubrey and Joey and tells them he will commit Tess for the baby.

Joey and Aubrey leave with Ryder, and Ford calls St. Annes, angering Tess to the point that she hits him in the head with a lamp and thinks she killed him.

Ford goes to St. Anne's dressed as a nun to break her out, and they hide out at the Minute Man Motel.

On June 28, 2011, Ford abducts Jessica from the hospital and holds her hostage at the Minute Man Motel to plead for her to still let Ryder be a part of his life, and to make Tess come back out.

Ford gives Jessica a ride back to the hospital after they happen to catch the Fourth of July fireworks.

Ford dies on January 9, 2012, after an altercation with Mitch Laurence leads a chandelier to fall on top of him.