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Name: Mark McManus  
   
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Date of Birth: 21st February 1935
   
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Mark McManus (born February 21, 1935 in Hamilton, Scotland; died June 6, 1994 in Glasgow) was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of DCI James Taggart in the long-running ITV television series Taggart.

McManus moved to Australia in the 1960s, where he began performing in amateur theatre groups, which led to him becoming a proferssional actor. During this time he appeared in the popular children's TV series Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo, and starred in Tim Burstall's unsuccessful but historically impportant feature film 2000 Weeks (1969), which was the first full-length Australian-produced feature made in Australia since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1954. McManus also appeared in the American-produced historical drama Adam's Woman (1970) and co-starred with Mick Jagger in the unsuccessful Tony Richardson 1970 film version of the Ned Kelly story. He returned to the UK in 1971 and came to wider notice playing a coal miner in the 1973 TV series Sam.

An urban myth that McManus was the brother of the Sweet's Brian Connelly is actually untrue - the two had only distant connections.


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