Mark Toland
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| One Life to Live character | |||
| Portrayed by | Tom Lee Jones | ||
| Duration | 1971–75 | ||
| First appearance | February 1971 | ||
| Last appearance | May 1975 | ||
| Created by | Agnes Nixon | ||
| Introduced by | Doris Quinlan | ||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||
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| Occupation | Physician | ||
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| Spouse | Julie Siegel (1971–75) |
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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") from February 1971 until the character's onscreen death in 1975.
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", becoming a con artist and sidekick to Llanview town pariah Dr. Dorian Cramer (Nancy Pinkerton).
After a nervous breakdown following a devastating breakup, the sororal niece of protagonist Joe Riley (Lee Patterson), Julie Siegel (Lee Warwick), meets Llanview newbie resident physician Dr. Mark Toland of Texas in February 1971. Mark and Julie soon marry months later on May 5, but their marriage is soon strained as an emotionally unreceptive Julie rebuffs her husband's sexual advances.
Mark and Julie seek couples therapy through 1972 with no avail in the bedroom. By May 1973, Dr. Toland begins to seek romantic solace in newly arrived Dr. Dorian Cramer (Nancy Pinkerton). Her emotionally unstable sister Melinda (Pat Pearcy), jealous of Mark and Dorian's affair, sought everything she could to break the two apart, eventually stabbing Mark's hand and leading Dorian to institutionalize her sister in 1974.
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