Career
McManus was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland on 21 February 1935. Mark was relocated to Hillingdon, Uxbridge, in London when he was three years old until he relocated at the age of 16 to Australia where he performed in amateur theatre groups which led him to become a professional actor. He appeared in the popular children's TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, and made a guest appearance in the long-running Australian police drama: Homicide. He also starred in Tim Burstall's unsuccessful but historically important feature film 2000 Weeks (1969), which was the first full-length Australian-produced feature made in Australia since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1954.
McManus also appeared in the American-produced historical drama Adam's Woman (1970) and co-starred with Mick Jagger in the unsuccessful Tony Richardson 1970 film version of the Ned Kelly story, Ned Kelly.
McManus returned to the UK in 1971 and came to wider attention playing roles such as Harry Carter in The Brothers, and Sam Wilson, a coal miner in the 1973 TV series Sam. He also appeared as a dour Scots police officer, Jack Lambie, in Strangers, a role he reprised as a guest star in the spin-off, Bulman.
McManus was also a boxer before acting. He is not to be confused with the boxer of the same name (born 1974) from Basildon in England.
Some of the more notable shows he was in include:
- Sam (TV series), 1973–1975
- Taggart, 1983–1994
- Bulman, 1985–1987
- Dramarama, "The Macramé Man", 1988
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