Glenn Chandler (including its series "Crown Court") before creating and writing his own series "Taggart" for STV Productions (ITV Network). Chandler created "Taggart" for STV's Controller of Drama, Robert Love, who wanted to set a police series in Glasgow. Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Maryhill Cemetery in Glasgow. The series continued even after the death of the actor Mark McManus, who played the lead role of Jim Taggart, and became the longest-running police drama on British television. Chandler has continued to write for his first
Errol Taggart also directed seven films, including "Sinner Take All", "Song of the City", and "The Women Men Marry". Taggart died in 1940 at the age of 45. Errol Taggart Errol Taggart (July 15, 1895 – August 30, 1940) was a Canadian film director and film editor who worked in Hollywood during the 1920s and 1930s. He was the editor of four movies directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney: "The Unknown" (uncredited) with Joan Crawford, "The Road to Mandalay", "The Blackbird", and the lost film "London After Midnight" (uncredited). He also edited Browning's film "Drifting" featuring Wallace Beery and Anna