James MacPherson (born 18 March 1960) is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jardine in the STV drama, Taggart.
He left Hamilton Grammar School at 17 and got a job as a laboratory technician at the Institute of Neurosciences at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
He joined an amateur dramatic group in Motherwell, before moving on to a repertory theatre in East Kilbride and a place in drama school.
It was after MacPherson landed the part of Hugh Hamilton in Citizens on BBC Radio 4 that his television career began to take off.
He appeared as Jardine in all but name in a TV documentary investigating claims that Scottish MPs were bribed to pass the Acts of Union of 1707.
In May 2010, MacPherson co-starred as Martin Schulse in the Tron Theatre's production of Address Unknown adapted from the short story by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor.