"I organise the Burns Night event with other Kyiv Lions Club members as part of our contribution of time to the club," Stuart tells me. Springers mother was under the impression that the twin had died, while Lewis mother knew a bit more. 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). Data Provided By On 10 February 1957 he appeared on the bill of Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium' (ATV) along with Guy Mitchell and The Beverley Sisters. 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 commercial became hugely successful when it went out on STV. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. The bemused carpenter suddenly found himself on stage with Logan doing a This is Your Life on him, and soon the audience was spellbound by the old man's stories of the great music hall stars he had known. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. 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. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". appeared in two Carry On films in 1972 and 1973. 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. Remember that time Big Brother puttwins in the house, and then pretended they were one person, and then one of them went on to win the whole season? An extensive archive of his personal papers and performance ephemera is now held by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland archives. Consequently in 1964 he bought the old Empress Theatre at St George's Cross in Glasgow, refurbished it and renamed it the Metropole, having paid 80,000 for it. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. 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. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Logan felt their act was getting tired and suggested the play to Milroy who was not keen at first. But that's all we got. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. 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. Jimmy was born as James Allan Short but after entering showbusiness he took on the name of Jim Logan it became Jimmy later because, in his own words, "my father soon decided it wasn't a good idea to have the same name as him because the audience wouldn't think they were getting their money's worth", and it was later under the name of Jimmy Logan that he was subsequently known to everyone. In 1993 his divorce was complete, he survived a quadruple heart bypass, and then to the delight of his friends he married Angela and they enjoyed eight years of happy life together. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. The brass plate on the Melville Monument dedicated to Henry Dundas claims he used his influence to delay the abolition of slavery. There were also plaudits for his television performances. The show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Chief medical officer Chris Whitty told Johnson that there were no strong reason against in corridors etc, and no very strong reasons for" introducing the masks. By the end of the 1950s, and at the peak of his profession in Scotland, Logan wanted to make a name for himself beyond Scotland's borders. Ultimately, both Jimmy and his daughter overcome the Loganand Americancurse. Join our linker program. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". were arrested. At the age of 12 or 13 possibly around 1955 Connolly saw Logan on stage in Five Past Eight at Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre and cites him as the inspiration behind his decision to become a comedian: On the fateful night at the Alhambra, among other hysterically funny things, Jimmy came on dressed as a Glasgow coalman, trousers tied nicky-tan style below the knee, with big leather back protector over his shoulders and sang in my accent yes, my Glasgow accent! He went on to marry a woman named Linda. In 1965, Logan's friend, Francis Essex, the head of productions at STV, wrote him asking if he had any ideas for new material. Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions of the theatre. Prison inmates nearly riot in the cafeteria, pummeling each other and prison guards. Most of the time I find I am laughing with him and not at him and the comedian who can evoke that kind of laughter is no ordinary clown. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. He then took it to Glasgow and ended up playing to more people that year than Five Past Eight, which Logan had finished with the previous year. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. 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). 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. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago. If they liked something no matter what it was they would say: "Aw lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits. Logan attributed the success to the play's subject matter. Neil Wilson, also known as Neil Canney, was found seriously wounded after he was targeted at his house on Nairn Road at around 1.15am on Tuesday. Andrew is best known for his role in the STV drama Broadchurch reportedly left his wife of 11 years after falling for his co-star Leila Farzad, 39. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. . He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. 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"! Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". In this day and age, if they wanted a public profile, they could easily do that with social media. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. In turn, Logan influenced others: Billy Connolly decided to become an entertainer after seeing him in pantomime. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. 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. [], In the early days there would be about eight different programmes in the 22-week season, and we had a lot of gags and sketches to fill each one up. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. Worse was to follow. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. Most of the money went to the people running the musical, and not the people running the Metropole. Destined for a life in showbusiness, James Short left school at the age of 14 without any academic qualifications. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. From 19 February 1957 to 26 March 1957 he began a new series of comedy programmes on the Scottish Home Service, Let's Face It which replaced the popular 17 Sauchie Street at the end of its run. If they wanted to come to the Metropole they were looking at a long and expensive journey two buses each way, or a bus and the tube. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. In 1985 he married Pamela Donald and the following year twins were born. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. Logan's stage act included character-based sketches, and these transferred well to the British television of the 1950s. 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. 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. A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. Logan then discovered that he had lost his audience. He had made his credited film debut at 21 in the Clydebank drama Floodtide (1949), with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson, but a cinema career did not follow, although there were a trickle of roles and he appeared in Carry on Abroad (1972) and Carry on Girls (1973). When their divorce came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. He began the arrangements to produce videotapes to be made available to newly diagnosed cancer sufferers to console them, but he died on Good Friday, April 13, 2001 in the Health Care International Hospital (now the Golden Jubilee Hospital) in Clydebank. "It was my chance to get into the lucrative management side of things, and with my name and Sam's writing ability, we thought we would make a good team.". Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. His London stage debut came in The Mating Game (1973). 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). Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. Greg went on to win the whole damn thing, and they were still (technically) being treated as one, so got to share in the prize equally. View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. Hurran decided that the 1961 season would be the last featuring Logan and Radcliffe in the starring roles. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. Died. Logan did 14 comedy plays with Cree, each of them made for family laughter. 13 April 2001 (aged 73) Jimmy Logan, (4 April 1928 - 13 April 2001), born James Short in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland was an Entertainer, theatre owner, producer, director, and actor. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Find out more. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. Written by Stan Mars, it featured Ian Sadler, Joan Mann, Stan Mars, Gerard Slevin and Leslie Robertson, along with the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra (conductor, Jack Leon). Logan was born a Protestant. This perception came from plays like Wedding Fever where he played a Rangers fan. 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. As a result, for the next two years he slept on the settee in his father's one-bedroom flat in Ibrox, and hung his clothes on the back of the upright piano. It seemed that nothing could go wrong, but it did. There are 40+ professionals named "Jimmy Logan", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. How do we create a person's profile? The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. [18], From January to April 1955 he was given his own weekly radio series on the Scottish Home Service, The Jimmy Logan Show, which featured a resident cast of Aileen Wilson, Marillyn Gray, and Peter Croft, along with the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra.[19]. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. It was released to cinemas in May 1949 and was a success. Do you have a blog? 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. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". Four days later he was meeting him in person. 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. Facebook gives people the power to. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. "I wanted to witness this wonderful new medium in the land that was really pioneering its progress," he recalled. Warner Bros. TV. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're twins. 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. 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. There's even less of a trace of David online. THE former wife of late Scots showbiz star Jimmy Logan has remarried. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. 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. They ended up walking away with $836,000 which was the amount left over after the various subtractions along the way. . The secret of Five Past Eight was that it offered the glamour of what you might find in Paris or London alongside the unique Scottish humour you found nowhere else. 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". During this event he made his last appearance on stage. Logan was a keen supporter of the Lodge, held office and participated in degree work. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Get it."[9]. The Jimmy Logan Show, produced by Eddie Fraser and directed by George Inns (who went on to work with the Black and White Minstrels), was broadcast on St Andrew's Day, Saturday 30 November (8.08.50pm). He went on to marry a woman named Linda. Some people said she chose the name Logan after sticking a pin in a newspaper race sheet and coming up with a horse called 'Triumphant Logan' Logan, 19. As Iain Crawford in the Radio Times observed, this was quite an achievement: Scotlands capital has written finis to the career of more than one promising Glasgow comedian the couthy west and the chilly east dont always take kindly to each other in the theatre but with Jimmy it was just another chapter in the Logan success story. Aldi launches tasty Easter treat 2 cheaper than high street equivalent. He starred in Saturday Showtime, written by Eric Sykes, for ITV in 1956, and from 1957 to 1961 in BBC TV's Jimmy Logan Show - much of it written by himself. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. 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. Jimmy Logan. 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! 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. 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. By the mid-1940s he was featuring in his parents' show, Ma and Pa Logan, at Glasgow's Metropole, and at 19 was principal comedian at the Metropole. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. [23] It was broadcast from 21 November 1959 to 23 April 1960. 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. The 32-piece orchestra was conducted by the great Geraldo, and the dancers' hair and clothes were all styled and designed to suit their own individual personality. He was acting a bit different," Glenn told Gretel in a weird 'Big Brother breaks the fourth wall scenario' in the diary room. I have heard better singers than Jimmy quite a number. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. Based in Glasgow, he was one of five children of a famous family. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. The ring, however, paints a very different picture. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard Rangers fan. Scott Taylor, who plays for Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale, is recovering in hospital in an induced coma after undergoing a 10-hour operation. Michael Mosley shares the weight loss snack that 'won't add to your waistline'. 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. Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. 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. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. 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. 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. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. The children then moved back to Glasgow to live with their parents in Ibrox, with Logan moving to the local school, Bellahouston Academy. When they weren't "in play" they were holed up in the isolation room playing playstation and watching DVDs (remember those.). 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. Successful new claims for Pension Credit may also qualify for the 900 cost of living payment. More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Jimmy Uso: Bio. 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 . One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". His big break came when he was offered a part in the feature film, Floodtide, alongside professional actors such as Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Elizabeth Sellars and Janet Brown. Produced by ITP for ATV, it was broadcast on Sunday 29 July 1956 (20:0021:00)in England only. Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. Murder probe after man shot dead on doorstep of Greenock home in 'targeted' attack. 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'. . 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