Mark McManus was a Scottish actor known for his roles in the British television series Sam, Bulman, The Brothers, Strangers, and Dramarama and the feature film 2000 Weeks.
13 Facts About Mark McManus
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Mark McManus was best known for playing the tough Glaswegian Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running STV television series Taggart from 1983 until his death in 1994.
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Mark McManus appeared in the children's TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and had a guest appearance in the long-running Australian police drama Homicide.
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Mark McManus starred in Tim Burstall's feature film 2000 Weeks, which was the first full-length Australian-produced feature made in Australia since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1954.
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Mark McManus appeared in the American-produced historical drama Adam's Woman and co-starred with Mick Jagger in the Tony Richardson film version of the Ned Kelly story, Ned Kelly.
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Mark McManus returned to the UK in 1971, and was known to a wider audience when he played roles such as Harry Carter in The Brothers and Sam Wilson, a coal miner in the 1973 TV series Sam.
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Mark McManus appeared opposite Peter O'Toole in the 1976 TV movie Rogue Male, and starred as a dour Scots police officer, Jack Lambie, in Strangers, a role he reprised as a guest star in the spin-off, Bulman.
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Mark McManus had roles in productions at the National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre.
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Mark McManus is not to be confused with the boxer of the same name was born on 1974 and from Basildon in England.
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Mark McManus began playing the title character in the crime drama Taggart in September 1983, alongside Neil Duncan, Tom Watson and Robert Robertson.
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Mark McManus drank heavily and, after several years of declining health, died from an alcohol-related illness.
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Mark McManus was hospitalised with severe jaundice in May 1994, and died in Glasgow of pneumonia brought on by liver failure, on 6 June 1994, aged 59, eight months after the death of his second wife Marion.
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The Mark McManus family adopted Brian Connolly, later of 1970s glam rock band the Sweet; the brothers perceived a resemblance between them, and supposed they shared a father.