JIM FIELDS
FIRST APPEARANCE: September 1969
LAST APPEARANCE: March 1975
PERFORMER: Alan Feinstein
EXIT:Left Monticello.
SPOUSE: Liz Hillyer
CHILDREN: Jason Fields
LOVERS: Rosella Gray
OCCUPATION: Psychiatrist
Liz Hillyer met Dr. Jim Fields while working as a volunteer with autistic children at the Hayward Institute in 1969. Jim and Liz grew closer as they tried to help Debbie Martin, the mute daughter of Stephanie Martin, whose husband and child had been killed by Ben Travis' vicious loan sharks. Jim and Liz became engaged in 1970, but their marriage was delayed by the arrival of Jim's former flame Rosella Gray. Rosella sought to rekindle a relationship with Jim by pulling every dirty trick in the book. She stole the key to his apartment, had it copied, and used it one night to let herself in while Jim was out. She crawled into his bed, planning to surprise him, but Rosella was the one surprised when someone entered the darkened room and plunged a knife into her. Believing that Jim had been unfaithful to Liz and killed Rosella to keep their affair quiet, district attorney Peter Quinn indicted Jim for murder. Liz too initially believed Jim guilty and turned her back on him. However, in time, he convinced her of his innocence, which was proven when police lieutenant Andy Anderson found the key-maker Rosella had used to duplicate Jim's apartment key. It was later revealed that Keith Whitney had actually murdered Rosella by mistake, intending to stab Jim, who knew that Keith had once been secretly married to Suella Duval.
Jim and Liz were married September 10, 1971 and had a few months of peace before trouble began. In December, Liz's father Orin and step-mother Julie were involved in a private plane crash in Italy. The accident took Julie's life and left a despondent Orin an invalid. He returned to Monticello and re-opened Claybank, the family's ancestral home. Orin's presence created an enormous strain in the Fields' marriage, as Orin didn't approve of Jim, and Jim found his new father-in-law's behavior toward Liz extremely manipulative. Against his better judgment, Jim reluctantly agreed to move into Claybank with Liz, who was now pregnant with the couple's first child. Another resident at Claybank was the late Julie Hillyer's distant relative Elly Jo Jamison. Elly Jo set her sight on the Hillyer fortune, plotting to kill potential heirs Liz and her unborn baby. Jim managed to save Liz, with Adam Drake's help, before she was murdered in Elly Jo's sinister plot. Liz gave birth to a son, Jason Fields in September 1973.
Jim was an integral part of Adam Drake's 1973 trial for the murder of Jake Berman, whose late wife Edith had been once been Jim's patient. He also provided care to Martha Marceau when she buckled under the stress of an illegal adoption with Taffy Simms. In the fall of 1974, Jim and Liz faced a separation when she was called to see her ailing father, who had remarried and returned to Italy. Although Liz's visit was supposed to be temporary, by the spring of 1975, she had not returned to the United States. In February, Jim received an offer to perform important psychiatric research at a Canadian university. He remained in Monticello through the conclusion of Martha Marceau's trial for the murder of Taffy Simms then left for Canada alone, the future of his marriage in serious question.
FIRST APPEARANCE: September 1969
LAST APPEARANCE: March 1975
PERFORMER: Alan Feinstein
EXIT:Left Monticello.
SPOUSE: Liz Hillyer
CHILDREN: Jason Fields
LOVERS: Rosella Gray
OCCUPATION: Psychiatrist
Liz Hillyer met Dr. Jim Fields while working as a volunteer with autistic children at the Hayward Institute in 1969. Jim and Liz grew closer as they tried to help Debbie Martin, the mute daughter of Stephanie Martin, whose husband and child had been killed by Ben Travis' vicious loan sharks. Jim and Liz became engaged in 1970, but their marriage was delayed by the arrival of Jim's former flame Rosella Gray. Rosella sought to rekindle a relationship with Jim by pulling every dirty trick in the book. She stole the key to his apartment, had it copied, and used it one night to let herself in while Jim was out. She crawled into his bed, planning to surprise him, but Rosella was the one surprised when someone entered the darkened room and plunged a knife into her. Believing that Jim had been unfaithful to Liz and killed Rosella to keep their affair quiet, district attorney Peter Quinn indicted Jim for murder. Liz too initially believed Jim guilty and turned her back on him. However, in time, he convinced her of his innocence, which was proven when police lieutenant Andy Anderson found the key-maker Rosella had used to duplicate Jim's apartment key. It was later revealed that Keith Whitney had actually murdered Rosella by mistake, intending to stab Jim, who knew that Keith had once been secretly married to Suella Duval.
Jim and Liz were married September 10, 1971 and had a few months of peace before trouble began. In December, Liz's father Orin and step-mother Julie were involved in a private plane crash in Italy. The accident took Julie's life and left a despondent Orin an invalid. He returned to Monticello and re-opened Claybank, the family's ancestral home. Orin's presence created an enormous strain in the Fields' marriage, as Orin didn't approve of Jim, and Jim found his new father-in-law's behavior toward Liz extremely manipulative. Against his better judgment, Jim reluctantly agreed to move into Claybank with Liz, who was now pregnant with the couple's first child. Another resident at Claybank was the late Julie Hillyer's distant relative Elly Jo Jamison. Elly Jo set her sight on the Hillyer fortune, plotting to kill potential heirs Liz and her unborn baby. Jim managed to save Liz, with Adam Drake's help, before she was murdered in Elly Jo's sinister plot. Liz gave birth to a son, Jason Fields in September 1973.
Jim was an integral part of Adam Drake's 1973 trial for the murder of Jake Berman, whose late wife Edith had been once been Jim's patient. He also provided care to Martha Marceau when she buckled under the stress of an illegal adoption with Taffy Simms. In the fall of 1974, Jim and Liz faced a separation when she was called to see her ailing father, who had remarried and returned to Italy. Although Liz's visit was supposed to be temporary, by the spring of 1975, she had not returned to the United States. In February, Jim received an offer to perform important psychiatric research at a Canadian university. He remained in Monticello through the conclusion of Martha Marceau's trial for the murder of Taffy Simms then left for Canada alone, the future of his marriage in serious question.
Jim tells Martha that he plans to leave Monticello. February 1975.