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.
Lucy M. Taggart Taggart was a member of the Women's Committee of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. She played an "influential" role in bringing Fabien Sevitzky, the orchestra's second conductor to Indianapolis. Other memberships included the Indianapolis Dramatic Club, Contemporary Club of Indianapolis, Colonial Dames of America, National Society of Magna Carta Dames, and the Cosmopolitan Club of New York. She was also a member of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. Taggart became a surrogate mother to her brother's young daughter, Eva, after his wife's death in 1929, and brought the child to Indianapolis to live with her at the Taggart family home.