a parody of Adam Faith's "What Do You Want". Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago. He also owns hotels and restaurants. 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]. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. In 1955 Logan undertook a two-week run in variety season at the London Palladium "the greatest variety theatre in the world" as he described it after being invited to do so by the theatre's boss, Val Parnell. Through fellow comedian Jack Milroy, Logan met Sam Cree, who came from the north of Ireland and wrote for a great Irish comedian and actor James Young, and the pair clicked. He appeared in Scotland and England in Harvey, The Entertainer, Death of a Salesman, Comedians, Uncle Vanya and many other stage plays. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. He claimed that because in 1964 the city fathers had an agenda to move prospective developers from St George's Cross and concentrate new shopping and entertainment developments in nearby Maryhill, "the Metropole was effectively hung out to dry. The squad eventually learns that the girl twin, Lindsay, was born a boy but a botched circumcision led to her parents making her a girl at the recommendation of the sex therapist the twins are currently seeing. 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. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're twins. There were five children and we all had our jobs to do," he said in a BBC interview. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. In 1993 came a follow-up at the festival. (Jimmy) Logan. His family, in the 1930s and 1940s, toured the small music halls of Scotland and Northern Ireland and ran seasons at the Metropole, Glasgow and in the Theatre, Paisley, where Logan became house manager for the family. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. Produced by ITP for ATV, it was broadcast on Sunday 29 July 1956 (20:0021:00)in England only. Logan began work as a child, selling programmes at his parents' shows. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. Logan was born a Protestant. In the winter of 1955 Logan starred in the first Howard & Wyndham pantomime at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow, which the company had just bought. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. In 1964 Logan bought the New Metropole Theatre at St George's Cross, Glasgow for 80,000 (not to be confused with the original Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street which burned down in 1961) and renamed it 'Jimmy Logan's Metropole Theatre'. Find out more. He took on a considerable amount of responsibility at a young age: as well as playing the accordion and acting as the comedian's 'feed' in sketches, he would put the show on, pay the performers, and make sure nothing went wrong. Scott Taylor, who plays for Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale, is recovering in hospital in an induced coma after undergoing a 10-hour operation. 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. In early 1959, Eric Maschwitz, the BBC's head of light entertainment, signed Logan up on an exclusive contract with the BBC to present an entire series of The Jimmy Logan Show for network, scheduled to run every second Saturday night for six months. No recording of this show is known to exist. They ended up walking away with $836,000 which was the amount left over after the various subtractions along the way. "It goes on all night. They discovered upon meeting each other that they both suffered from tension headaches, were prone to nail biting, and even discovered that they smoked the same brand of cigarettes and vacationed on the same Florida beach. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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. . Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Do you have a sports website? Frank Kinnis, 83, suffered fatal injuries after David Johnstone stamped on his head in woodland in Elgin. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours 1. The show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. 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. One had a noticeable scar on their forehead, the other had a tattoo on their ankle, one was right-handed and the other left-handed. At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. By 1950 ha had his own radio . Neil Wilson was found seriously injured on Nairn Road at around 1.15am on Tuesday morning. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. His other film roles included The Wild Affair (1964), Carry On Abroad (1972), Carry On Girls (1973), Living Apart Together (1982), Captain Jack (1999), and The Debt Collector (1999) with Billy Connolly. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results James F "Jimmy" Logan (twin) BLANTON (1934 - 1944) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days. He was named James by his adoptive parents and had a dog named Toy. Being centred in the south or north of England, most of their references left me bewildered. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. 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. 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. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. In turn, Logan influenced others: Billy Connolly decided to become an entertainer after seeing him in pantomime. "The real Jimmy Logan, if the truth be told, knows virtually nothing about football and most certainly doesn't support a team."[33]. He knew that the theatre itself would probably lose money, but he believed that by building a complex of bars and restaurants with entertainment on the plot next door, he could subsidise the losses of the theatre. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. . But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. Michael Mosley shares the weight loss snack that 'won't add to your waistline'. We were fed a diet of comedians who, while brilliant at their craft, were somewhat foreign to me [] they were all very funny in their own right but tended to talk about things I knew little or nothing about. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Greg was married to the mother of this three children former Elle magazine editor-in-chief (now Jones magazine editor) Justine Cullen, but the pair have since parted ways. We havent seen or heard anything from Greg and David in years. Ultimately, both Jimmy and his daughter overcome the Loganand Americancurse. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. "These comedy plays saved by career and exposed people to a Jimmy Logan they never knew existed. . At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. 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. The Trouble with Alec, starring Logan in the lead role, which was first broadcast on BBC-1 Scotland on Thursday evenings (9.09.25pm) from 11 November to 16 December 1965, directed by David Bell and produced by Eddie Fraser. 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. Most of the money went to the people running the musical, and not the people running the Metropole. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. 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. which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout. Logan attributed the success to the play's subject matter. They were magnificent, glamorous affairs full of great comedy, and lively singing and dancing. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . His first marriage of 21 years standing had already failed in 1969, and he believed that his financial problems played a large part in the failure of his second marriage. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. His vision was to run American-style showbars that had never been seen in Glasgow before. It had been a big hit in Belfast where it had run at the Ulster Theatre since September 1960, and Logan thought that it might transfer well to Scotland, so in April 1961 he took it on tour for two weeks at His Majesty's, Aberdeen, and the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, with himself in the starring role his first stage part in a play. Due to the fact they're identical twins, but one was made . Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. Logan also started appearing on his own, performing in wartime variety seasons at the Palladium in Edinburgh, and the Hippodrome and Opera House in Dunfermline. Logan was married to Grace in 1958. James Logan was an actor, known for Mary Poppins (1964), You Are There (1953) and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). Get it."[9]. The writers kept suggesting things like using the sound effect of a seagull when something funny happened. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. His aunt from w read more. During that season he got a call from an Edinburgh advertising agency to appear in a television advert for Simmers Biscuits. [32] 1976 Lauder at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. They formed a successful show business partnership and it was natural that Jimmy would follow in their footsteps. It was that passing message that ultimately drove Jim Lewis to look for his twin. I'd rather do a wee bit, go off, come back on and go off." A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. A one-man show he had written on the life of his great hero Sir Harry Lauder. Logan concluded: "The Scottishness was being drummed out of the show, and Dickie Hurran failed to realise that was the core of its success."[25]. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. 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. Two new writers, Andrew McIntyre and Jack McLeod, were also hired came up with one of Logan's catchphrases "sausages is the boys": They reckoned it would be perfect for one of my characters, the gormless youth Sammy Dreep, a kind of wee Glaswegian you could imagine wearing a bunnet and thick glasses, who always spat out phlegm when he was talking. This perception came from plays like Wedding Fever where he played a Rangers fan. Successful new claims for Pension Credit may also qualify for the 900 cost of living payment. When Helensburgh Heritage Trust was set up the same year, he became its first Honorary President, and he contributed a piece on another great entertainer from Helensburgh, Jack Buchanan, another of his great heroes, for the Trusts bicentenary book, 200 Years of Helensburgh. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. Buddy would be singing a nice melody and I would be screaming in the background: "Oh, dear God, take him away."[5]. When they weren't "in play" they were holed up in the isolation room playing playstation and watching DVDs (remember those.). We present them here for purely educational purposes. Mehmet Sunna, who runs Sunna Salon Furniture in the city, has spoken of the moment found his hometown Pazarcik reduced to rubble. I was on piano, my dad played the accordion, my mother, Buddy and Heather sang, and Bertie did other things including playing the xylophone. 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]. He had a quadruple heart bypass operation. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. 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. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. . He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. The bank would lend him no more money and the Metropole closed in 1973 with Logan in debt to the tune of 170,000. It was so successful another edition was broadcast on 24 May 1958. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Amazon Fire TV Stick users may soon start seeing a warning message when trying to side-load dodgy unofficial apps. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? Heres a snippet. On 1 February 1975 he was a guest on the Parkinson programme, talking about his career and the influence of Sir Harry Lauder, and was then joined by his sister Annie Ross. It was quite a disappointment when the pantomime was able to recommence. 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. Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. 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. Something went wrong, please try again later. Jimmy Uso: Bio. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. Instead, nearly everyone involved or affected by the heist is rewarded. There were so many sketches you didn't have time to mess about on such trivial things as what was going to be in them. The brass plate on the Melville Monument dedicated to Henry Dundas claims he used his influence to delay the abolition of slavery. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. Many thanks to him. Loganberry Pie was produced by the voice of children's radio Kathleen Garscadden and broadcast on the BBC-tv network. During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. In March 2001 Scotland's show business stars led a stage spectacular, "A Celebration for Jimmy Logan", in his honour at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre, and it was sold out even before the box office opened! He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. Jimmy was born in Glasgow on April 4 1928 the same year as Mickey Mouse, as he pointed out and he first appeared on stage at the age of 12, although his career in the theatre actually started at the age of seven as during holidays he would sell programmes, chocolates and cigarettes at his father's summer show in Northern Ireland. Too young to go with them, James and his siblings moved to Gourock to stay with their mother's sister, Aunt Jean, and her husband Uncle Bert Lawton. Jimmy Logan (19282001) was a Scottish comedian, actor, theatrical producer, impresario and director, who was a frequent broadcaster on both radio and television in the post-war era. All rights reserved. "[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]. As a young man he modelled himself on the Scottish matinee idol and song and dance star of the 1930s and 40s Jack Buchanan, who had made a good living playing languid Englishmen. On the opening night, Saturday 31 August 1957, he and Stanley Baxter appeared in This is Scotland, an hour-long variety special broadcast live from the Theatre Royal studios. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. The cost of producing the shows was phenomenal but the standard was superb. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. Logan was part of a family of entertainers beginning with his parents who were the music hall act Short and Dalziel. Positions: At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. In 1979, Jim Lewis met Jim Springer, and the truth behind their startling similarities came out. View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. His Scottish Teddy Boy act which had gone down well on Five Past Eight proved to be a great success with an English audience "and I can only say there were no bad nights".[15]. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. 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HELENSBURGH man Jimmy Logan OBE a world famous and colourful Scottish actor and entertainer served until his death in 2001 as the first honorary president of Helensburgh Heritage Trust and took a keen interest in the work of the Trust. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. 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. Logan was a keen supporter of the Lodge, held office and participated in degree work. Other theatrical events included The Entertainer (1984), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1989), Bill Bryden's The Ship, The Comedians (1991), On Golden Pond (1996) and Death of a Salesman at the Pitlochry Festival (1992). Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. "Most Kyiv business people are away from 20th December to the 15th of January. His father decided it was not a good idea for his son to share the same surname because the audience might think they were not getting their money's worth, and so from 1943 James Short became 'Jim Logan'. The Calum Kennedy Show opened the Metropole, followed by the gala opening performance of Wedding Fever on 1 September 1964, directed by Eddie Fraser, with a cast including Marillyn Gray, Paul Young, Stanley Baxter's sister Alice Dale, and Morag Hood. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies . Logan then discovered that he had lost his audience. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. 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. Over the years he became, in the words of his obituary writers, "a consummate performer and inspiration to many entertainers" (The Herald) and "a gentleman, a very generous man, and one of Helensburgh's best loved residents" (Helensburgh Advertiser). Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database seen or anything! Birthday cake and wreck her car edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50 the. 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