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.
Tamara Taggart Tamara Taggart Tamara Taggart, OBC is a Canadian television presenter, born on May 2, 1968, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She recently served as the weekday anchor of "CTV News at Six" alongside Mike Killeen on CIVT-TV ("CTV British Columbia") in Vancouver, British Columbia. On April 9, 2018 both Tamara and Mike were fired from CTV. Taggart's career in broadcasting started while she was attending BCIT in Burnaby, British Columbia, where she was enrolled in the Broadcast Communications program. She graduated in 1991 (her class included Vancouver sports broadcaster John Shorthouse, NewCap Radio GM Steve Parsons, McVay Media writer & program