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.
Helen Taggart Clark John. By 1911, she was living in Brooklyn, New York. Helen Taggart Clark Helen Taggart Clark (pen name, H. T. C.; April 24, 1849–?) was an American journalist and poet. Helen Taggart was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1849. She was the oldest of three children of the Col. David Taggart and Annie Pleasants (Cowden) Taggart. There were three siblings, John C., Hanna C. H., and James. She was educated in the Friends' Central School, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In October, 1869, she made a six months' stay in Charleston, South Carolina to make a visit to her father, then