- McManus was chosen as the first posthumous recipient of the Lord Provost's Award (Glasgow). His family accepted the Performing Arts Award just a few months after his death, at a ceremony at which Lord Provost James Shields declared, "to many people Mark McManus was Glasgow".
- Always a heavy drinker, towards the end of his life, he suffered from skin cancer and alcoholism, the latter of which was exacerbated by the deaths, in just a two year period, of his wife Marion McManus in October of 1993 and his mother, two sisters and a brother. He was admitted to hospital with severe jaundice in May 1994 and died of pneumonia June 6th..
- Started acting while working as a docker in Australia in the '60s.
- His father was a coal miner.
- He's a fanatical butterfly breeder.
- He's a keen salmon fisherman.
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