Mark Toland

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Mark Toland
One Life to Live character
Julie Siegel
(1971–75)

Mark Toland is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live. He was portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones (credited as "Tom Lee Jones")[1] from February 1971 until the character's onscreen death in 1975.[2]

Character background

A young and up-and-coming doctor, Mark is first shown as a suave and gregarious bachelor with great prospects. Upon informing show producers he would permanently vacate the role in 1975, Jones said in a 1994 interview to Entertainment Weekly that Mark morphed into "an A-one nutboy",[1] becoming a con artist and sidekick to Llanview town pariah Dorian Lord (Nancy Pinkerton).

Storyline

1971–74

Julie
(Warwick) marry, 1971.

After a

resident physician Dr. Mark Toland of Texas in February 1971.[3] Mark and Julie soon marry months later on May 5,[4] but their marriage is soon strained as an emotionally unreceptive Julie rebuffs her husband's sexual advances.[5]

Mark and Julie seek

institutionalize her sister in 1974.[8][9]

In 1974, while romancing one another in the workplace at Llanview Hospital, Dorian and Mark engage in a tense argument which leads Dorian to erroneously mark the chart of

desired death. Suspicion is soon cast on Larry, who is arrested for Rachel's suspected mercy killing, no one aware of Dorian and Mark's involvement. Both Mark and Dorian agreed to keep quiet on their complicity in the patient death.[10][11]

1974–75

Wrought with grief and guilt, Dorian advises Mark of her decision to inform hospital chief-of-staff Dr. Jim Craig (Nat Polen) of her complicity in Rachel's death. The news frightens Mark who, afraid of criminal manslaughter charges and revocation of his medical license, attempts to flee as Dorian chases him down a flight of stairs. Dorian clumsily tumbles down behind Mark, leading to a concussion which causes her to fall into a brief coma. Determined, Tom continues on his way and escapes to South America.[12] Eventually, Dorian emerges from her coma and testifies to police, exonerating Larry but resulting herself being charged with medical malpractice by the Llanview Hospital board of directors. Dorian is suspended by a near unanimous vote in December 1974,[13] save for board member Victoria "Viki" Lord Riley (Erika Slezak), who Dorian mistakenly assumes was the deciding vote—and on whom she swears revenge.

Mark continues on his getaway to

Dorothy Randolph, who divulges her son Tony Harris to be Victor's first-born child.[14]

Mark plans a return to Llanview to blackmail Victor for information on his long-sought male heir, but is shot dead in May 1975 by a jilted woman who mistakes him to be her cheating husband,

widowed
.

Reception

The pairing of Mark and Julie and subsequent storyline of marriage difficulty and infidelity gained such a regular following among viewers and critics it led producers to make Jones a featured lead[16] on the series opposite Lee Patterson (Joe Riley), Michael Storm (Larry Wolek), and Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord).

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8065-1952-4
    . Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  2. ISBN 978-0345324597
    .
  3. ^ One Life to Live. Season 3. February 1971. American Broadcasting Company.
  4. ^ One Life to Live. Season 4. May 5, 1971. American Broadcasting Company.
  5. ^ "One Life to Live recap (1971)". ABC. Archived from the original on April 23, 2008. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  6. ^ One Life to Live. Season 5. May 1973. American Broadcasting Company.
  7. Disney-ABC
    . Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  8. ^ One Life to Live. Season 7. August 1974. American Broadcasting Company.
  9. ^ "One Life to Live recap (1973, Part 2)". ABC. Archived from the original on April 23, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  10. ISBN 9781401323097
    . Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  11. ^ "One Life to Live recap (1974)". ABC. Archived from the original on April 23, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  12. ^ a b "One Life to Live recap (1974, Part 2)". ABC. Archived from the original on April 23, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  13. ^ One Life to Live. Season 7. December 1974. American Broadcasting Company.
  14. ^ One Life to Live. Season 7. April 1975. American Broadcasting Company.
  15. ^ One Life to Live. Season 7. May 1975. American Broadcasting Company.
  16. ^ Rosenbaum, Linda (1972). "C'mon, Tom... Put On A Happy Face: Tom Lee Jones rarely smiles – and here's why..." After Noon TV (January 1972). Retrieved 17 January 2013.

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