Mark McManus
Birthday: Born in 1935-02-21 in Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Deathday: 1994-06-06
Mark McManus was a Scottish actor best known for his role as Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running television series "Taggart", which aired from 1983 until his death in 1994. He died in Glasgow.
TV Credits
Colditz
Character: Lt. Cameron
Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors....
Taggart
Character: DCI Jim Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers....
The Brothers
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The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976....
Shadows of Fear
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Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people....
Sam
Character: Sam Wilson
Sam is a drama set in the coalfields of Yorkshire in the inter-war period....
Target
Character: Wilson
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve....
Strangers
Character: DCS Jack Lambie
Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not w...
Bulman
Character: DCS Jack Lambie
Bulman is a 1985–87 police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith. Produced by Granada Television for ITV, it is the second and final spin-off from The XYY Man (1976–78), and following Strangers (1978–82). Don Henderson reprises his iconic role as former DCI George Bulman, ostensibly retired from and repairing old clocks but active as a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his assistant. The duo are frequently drawn into the clandestine world of the secret service thro...
Movie Credits
Double Scotch & Wry
Character: Taggart
Rikki Fulton and friends return with another selection of sketches and comedy characters, including the Reverend I.M. Jolly, Supercop, dirty barber Alky Broon and Big Chief Swift Half....
Ned Kelly
Character: Joe Byrne
Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly....
Rogue Male
Character: Vaner
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers....
Two Thousand Weeks
Character: Will Gardiner
A subjective view of a crisis in the life of a writer who calculates he has 2,000 weeks left in his life to fulfill himself....
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Character: Sergeant Mitchem
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves....