Logan began work as a child, selling programmes at his parents' shows. 1950 The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. [21] The presenter was Tommy Trinder. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. But I don't know of any contemporary Scots comic whom it so warms my heart to watch, who commands my sympathy to the extent that Jimmy does. [7] Logan collected Lauder memorabilia, which is now housed in the Scottish Theatre Archive at the University of Glasgow. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. The former Celtic skipper was proud of his players as they battled for 45 minutes with ten men, only to lose in the 90th minute. Neil Wilson was found seriously injured on Nairn Road at around 1.15am on Tuesday morning. He wanted to concentrate on the glamour and the spectacle of the show, the emphasis on dancers in tails rather than the rather low-brow humour of Logan's act. Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. Aldi launches tasty Easter treat 2 cheaper than high street equivalent. Well done to Greg, though, sounds like hes made the most of his winnings in a business that can be quite risky. My father told me: "Son, get out of that rubbish!" When his divorce to Grace came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. Along with his twin brother Jey, Jimmy has caused nightmares for the WWE Tag Team division for years. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. Most families were short of money so if the wife who had been bored to tears in the house all day wanted to go out at night, she would invariably go to the bingo, a welcome replacement for the old-fashioned quiz nights. A one-man show he had written on the life of his great hero Sir Harry Lauder. He had a quadruple heart bypass operation. in his own words "my responsibilities to the building and my debts were destined to crush me for another decade.". In fact, the theme of the series was single, sexy, and competitive(LOL) and instead of asking for video-taped auditions, the producers toured the country looking for the sexiest singles in all the land. Jimmy's career had taken him to the Albert Hall in London and to the Carnegie Hall in New York; but he still continued to take part in his real love, pantomime. The comedian, actor and impresario Jimmy Logan, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a legend, one of the first Scots entertainers to make the transition to television stardom in the 1950s, and a quietly intelligent performer who was ahead of his time. . Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. People came from London to see what on earth this wonderful spectacle was about. One play Cree wrote for Young was Wedding Fever, which centred on the wedding of a daughter and a son, one from a Catholic family, the other from a Protestant one. I'd rather do a wee bit, go off, come back on and go off." The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. Logan was a keen supporter of the Lodge, held office and participated in degree work. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. One of his last major dramatic roles was something of a tribute from an old admirer, appearing alongside Billy Connolly in Anthony Neilson's The Debt Collector (1998). At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop, More Jimmy Logan Pages at Baseball Reference, Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 1:07PM. Logan, starring with Jack Radcliffe and Eve Boswell, held the record number of performances of the famed Five Past Eight shows staged each summer at the Alhambra Theatre. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." It was so popular company bosses would send their secretaries down to stand in queues to make sure they got their tickets for the next change of programme.[24]. Theatre was the major form of entertainment when Logan came to prominence in the 1950s, but it was clear to him that television was going to play a major part in the future after it arrived in Scotland (in 1952) and he went to America to study commercial television. But it was merely a stay of execution. Straight off the back of the success of Floodtide, Logan was chosen as the star of a new comedy series on the Scottish Home Service, It's All Yours, which began on 11 July 1949. Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop. Do you have a sports website? Loganberry Pie was produced by the voice of children's radio Kathleen Garscadden and broadcast on the BBC-tv network. @aisha_mian @azra_mian @MiantwinsSubscribe to our friends!Jeremy Hutchins @Jeremy Hutchins Andrew Davila @Andrew Davila Ben Azelart @Ben Azelart Brent Rivera @Brent Rivera Lexi Rivera @Alexa RiveraDom Brack @Dominic Brack Pierson @pierson Lexi Hensler @lexi henslerStalk us on instagram for more content ;)Alan's Instagram: https://instagram.com/imalanstokes/ Alex's Instagram: https://instagram.com/imalexstokes/Music Creds:Against The Sun Kevin MacLeod ~ One-eyed maestroKevin Macleod - Merry GoLife Maz He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. Buddy would be singing a nice melody and I would be screaming in the background: "Oh, dear God, take him away."[5]. Something went wrong, please try again later. Logan ad-libbed in front of the curtain to the 2,000-strong audience for a while and then asked the orchestra leader to find the theatre carpenter, who had worked there all his life and was about to retire. The following Thursday a memorial service was held for him in Glasgow Cathedral once again he had a packed house. appeared in two Carry On films in 1972 and 1973. The comedian, actor and impresario Jimmy Logan, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a legend, one of the first Scots entertainers to make the transition to television stardom in the 1950s, and a. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Rank. Scottish performer, producer, impresario and director, For other people named James or Jimmy Logan, see, Alhambra Glasgow by Graeme Smith, published 2011, The Theatre Royal: Entertaining a Nation by Graeme Smith, published 2008, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Logan&oldid=1084117228, Officers of the Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 April 2022, at 17:04. Andrew Linton's wife Alison described him as a "happy family man" as she said his disappearance is extremely out of character, adding that his granddaughter Myla needs her papa home. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the outlook for the Metropole looked bleak. A pair of identical twins (not the Jim Twins). The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. Last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50, Floodtime: Film with a Clydebank Background, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001179/19530917/058/0011, http://wiki.scotlandonair.com/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Logan&oldid=64292. On 16 August 1957 he appeared in the first television broadcast from the BBC's new Springfield Road studio, Glasgow, On View, in a sketch with Fay Lenore. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins @miantwins The Twin's instagram and tiktok! Logan devised a series of sophisticated revues, Five Past Eight, that drew Scotland-wide audiences to Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. By 2005, Big Brother had already been on air for four years so the producers were ready to throw all the spanners into all the works. Around the same time he was asked to appear in Sunday Night at Blackpool, an offshoot of the popular variety show Meet the Stars which decamped to Blackpool for a series of summer shows. Five thousand would be subtracted every time a housemate broke a rule. The team of researchers had been performing an ongoing study of twins, hoping to discover if separation had any role in the 'nature vs. nurture' debate. One was a plumber, the other sold beer as a sales rep. The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. When she had gone to a judge to get her adoption paperwork finalized, she had overheard someone mention that the other baby had also been named James. The separation meant selling his house, a move to Springvale, 73 East Princes Street, in 1990, and disposing of his wonderful collection of Harry Lauder memorabilia. One woman ventured out to see what outlets would offer her freebies for her special day. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. He appeared on-stage in The Celtic Story which opened in August 1998 at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, before moving on to the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. He was making more and more of a name for himself as a serious actor, and even wrote and performed in a one-man play on Sir Harry Lauder, one of his great heroes. It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. Died. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. In the 1940s he was a leading light in his family's show, which he left to become a pantomime performer in his own right. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. The murder of a debauched gangbanger leads the detectives to a pair of twins, one of whom is not all that she appears to be. Young people in Lanarkshire can access new mental health support service through their smart phones, It's aimed at all 10 to 18-year-olds, and care experienced adults aged up to 26 years old, The food chains that give free birthday treats to customers from Greggs to Costa. It was a financial gamble that took every penny Logan had (40,000 was his share) along with substantial loans from the bank. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. During the service he was given a round of applause because Billy Connolly, who was inspired to take up entertainment by watching Jimmy, believed it was more appropriate than a minute's silence. His parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, were a Glasgow music-hall double act. "The real Jimmy Logan, if the truth be told, knows virtually nothing about football and most certainly doesn't support a team."[33]. Yet his roots were deeply buried in old-style entertainment, and in recent years he was regarded as an encyclopaedia of Scottish popular theatre, his speciality being Sir Harry Lauder, whom he met as a child. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies focusing on medical and psychological characteristics of twins. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. View Jimmy Logan results in Texas (TX) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Crawford believed the quality that had taken Logan to the top was his charm: I must admit that I have seen consistently funnier comedians on the Scottish stage than Jimmy not many, but a few. He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. The bank would lend him no more money and the Metropole closed in 1973 with Logan in debt to the tune of 170,000. Logan was born a Protestant. Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". He left school at 14 and became assistant manager of Paisley's Victory Theatre. This loss was a gain for the University of Glasgow and the people of Scotland as these items now form part of the Logan Theatre Collection in the University Library, thanks to the MacFarlane Trust. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours The trappings of success followed rapidly, and while in his twenties he was living in a wing of Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, had his own Rolls-Royce with personalised number plate, and flew his own plane. In 1990 his services to Scottish entertainment, and to charity, led to Logan being awarded an OBE. In 1968 Logan was offered his own colour TV series on the BBC. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. Logan attributed the success to the play's subject matter. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. The King Street Hotel, Argyle House and Greenroof Hotel are all part of his empire with his smart investments turning him into a multi-millionaire. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. On opening night it was revealed the $1 million prize was also getting the shakeup. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're twins. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. He initially fronted a couple of one-off comedy variety shows for the BBC-tv network from London. They ended up walking away with $836,000 which was the amount left over after the various subtractions along the way. The bulk of what they discovered centered around the effect environment has on child-rearing and the way genetics factor in as a comparison. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. We've been dating twins for a few months now and we surprised our friends with them!! A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". James Logan was an actor, known for Mary Poppins (1964), You Are There (1953) and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. . After 16 weeks the shows were stopped. Wherever it played in Britain audiences flocked from all over. In 1979, Jim Lewis met Jim Springer, and the truth behind their startling similarities came out. His memoir, It's a Funny Life, was published in 1998. It did not start well: The first six shows were a disaster, and the script was so bad I was getting letters saying: "You stink," and "Get off the air ya big balloon". The story is told of a disastrous production of Sinbad the Sailor at the Alhambra in the 1960s, when a burst pipe caused the safety curtain to fall, halting proceedings. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. When men got home from their work at night they just wanted to sit and watch television and that television was soon in colour, a wonderful novelty. At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. At 39 years of age, Jim Lewis called the probate court, which had a record of his adoption, and contacted the Springer family in Piqua. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. I came home one day, Lewis recounted, and had this message to call Jim Springer., He did, and before he could help himself, blurted out an almost comedic: Are you my brother?. His vision was to run American-style showbars that had never been seen in Glasgow before. They also starred in the long-running Five Past Eight show at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. Get it."[9]. Logan and his Fife Past Eight co-star Jack Radcliffe were original shareholders in STV, each contributing 1,000. He attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. They also starred in the long-running Five Past Eight show at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. Logan was chairman of the board of directors, his father was managing director, and his mother and wife Grace the remaining directors. The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. If they are living under the radar lives, perhaps instead of saying where are you please, you could just have left it at good on you. His aunt from w read more. The nature of their business meant their young family stayed at a number of houses in a number of different cities. In 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. Join Facebook to connect with Jimmy Logan and others you may know. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. The ring, however, paints a very different picture. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. However, he was left facing financial ruin after he bought Glasgow's Metropol Theatre. Data Provided By Listening as a young man, the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was struck by how Logan made people laugh using a strong Glasgow accent: I have been brought up, like lots of people of my generation, listening to BBC Radio and early television. And led to the breakdown of his marriage to this second wife Gina a few years later. Jimmy was delighted as he believed them to be his first children and three years later the family moved to part of 152 East Clyde Street in Helensburgh (pictured left). Murder probe after man shot dead on doorstep of Greenock home in 'targeted' attack. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". People of State Pension age living on their own may be due extra 201 each week from April. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies . Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. They formed a successful show business partnership and it was natural that Jimmy would follow in their footsteps. But even then, life was not always kind to him. In 1968 he got the chance to do pantomime at the London Palladium, performing in Robinson Crusoe, with Englebert Humperdinck in the lead role and Logan playing his brother. Logan published his autobiography, It's a Funny Life, in 1998.[3]. We took a lot of chances, and just made it up was we went along. Facebook gives people the power to. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. Consequently, the family home was always filled with music and the sound of somebody singing. In fact many people still know me better for Lovely Biscuits than anything else. Unfortunately, remains of a baby have been found in woodland close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. James Allan Short, OBE, FRSAMD (4 April 1928 13 April 2001), known professionally as Jimmy Logan, was a Scottish performer, theatrical producer, impresario and director. Jimmy Logan's connections with Helensburgh go back even to the time before he was born, as it was in Helensburgh that his parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, met each other. Hurran decided that the 1961 season would be the last featuring Logan and Radcliffe in the starring roles. A year later he was on the boards himself.[3]. The show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. As he shot more into the limelight, his parents became 'Ma and Pa Logan', and his schoolboy character's catchphrase, "It's smashin' Maw", was used as the title for the show. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. Shortly after joining the organisation he was able to afford a ten-room house in Dowanhill in the west end of Glasgow for 1,500; he bought a Rolls-Royce with the registration plate 'JL10', which he employed a chauffeur to drive; and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself.[13]. Warner Bros. TV. If all you know of WWE is what you see on Total Divas, Jimmy Uso is a loving, kind-hearted husband with a heart of gold. Instead, nearly everyone involved or affected by the heist is rewarded. He appeared in Scotland and England in Harvey, The Entertainer, Death of a Salesman, Comedians, Uncle Vanya and many other stage plays. Edinburgh loved him.[12]. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. . Max apparently gets into another altercation with the Logan brothers later: We don't see the fight, but do see Max's bruised, bandaged face after the fact. Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. Trying to find good writers was very difficult because they had to not only be able to write good comedy, but write comedy that suited your personality.[14]. Lohan soared to stardom after her performances as twins Hallie Parker and Annie James, who were separated as babies, then met at summer camp more than a decade later. [16] A few months later they drafted in Logan as vice-chairman. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Few things were put together in advance. [1] [6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. Born: 1945 in Glasgow. Micheal shared some of the benefits of eating one type of food, including improved brain health. THE former wife of late Scots showbiz star Jimmy Logan has remarried. Many thanks to him. James Allan Short was born in the family home at 3 Inglis Street, Dennistoun, Glasgow on 4 April 1928, the middle child in a series of five.[1]. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. Jimmy Uso: Bio. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. Joe Gordon and Sally Logan in the Harleqin Rooms in the Mount Royal Hotel, Edinburgh Scottish entertainer Joe Gordon, who has died in Ayr at the age of 85, enjoyed a showbusiness career spanning . He thought he was a well enough known name to take a touring show round Scotland, but he ended up playing to half-empty theatres. In 1988 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama made him a Fellow and, as a consequence, in his words "in a way I became respectable"! Check out these conjoined twins that survived being separated at the head, the worlds most difficult surgery. The force said the alleged comments are wholly unacceptable, and referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). His first job was as an assistant manager at the Victory Theatre in Paisley, but he left after six months and began performing in open-air summer concert parties working for, and with, his parents. In 1970, however, he surprised many when he announced the theatre would be playing host to Hair, the hottest musical to hit London in years, not to mention the most controversial primarily because of the on-stage nudity and its political stance against the war in Vietnam. Aware that he was going to have to reinvent himself to keep up with the times, they formed a company, Star Scripts Ltd, with the aim of adapting and writing comedy plays to put on at theatres round the country. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. Because how fun are identical twins. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. Heres a snippet. No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Opened on 26 May 1976. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. Logan then discovered that he had lost his audience. The TV viewer was then led into the auditorium as though they were a special guest before things settled for the beginning of the performance. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. At the same time, during the summer, he performed in the hugely successful Five Past Eight revue which he did from 1954 to 1961, working alongside Jack Radcliffe and Stanley Baxter: Fortunes were spent on beautiful costumes and wonderful scenery, and by the time I did my first one at Edinburgh in 1954 they had become the top shows around. The first few years of Jimmy Logan's Metropole were a success, but all theatres were being threatened by the redevelopment of Glasgow: Thousands of people who lived round about my theatre at St George's Cross were being uprooted from their city centre tenements into the new schemes miles away on the outskirts. It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. He was initiated into the Lodge Anima No.1223 on 17th October 1948. "[27] "I learned in later years when I was peforming serious plays like Death of a Salesman that I had learned so many valuable lessons from appearing in Sam Cree comedies."[201]. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions of the theatre. While reminiscing on this nugget of history we realised something. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. Jimmy Logan & quot ; Jimmy Logan Memorial cancer Trust Metropol Theatre in Glasgow before last. 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