Mark McManus Mark McManus Mark McManus (21 February 1935 – 6 June 1994) was a Scottish actor, who also worked in England and Australia. McManus was best known for playing tough Glaswegian Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart in the long-running STV television series "Taggart" for eleven years from (1983-1994) until his death, McManus was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 21 February 1935 and moved to Hillingdon, Uxbridge, in London when he was three years old, until he moved again at the age of sixteen to Australia, where he performed in amateur theatre groups that led him to becoming a professional actor.
Detective (band) disband. Michael Des Barres from the band performed songs on the fourth episode of the first season of the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" as part of the fictional hoodlum rock group "Scum of the Earth". Michael Des Barres (who played "Sir Charles Weatherbee" aka "Dog") and two other actors ("Peter Elbling", as "Blood", and "Jim Henderson", as "Nigel") played the part of the band during most of the TV show, but the band Detective performed on the end of the show segment. Detective (band) Detective was an American/English rock band that toured and recorded in the late 1970s. Detective consisted