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. 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. Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. . . Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. Find out more. He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. 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. 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. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. Take a look at some of the famous twins of Hollywood, including Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and more. He followed it with a new play by Cree, Second Honeymoon, about a couple who go back to a boarding house in Dunoon years after they first went there for their honeymoon. It was so successful another edition was broadcast on 24 May 1958. Post continues after video. Jimmy Logan (James Short), entertainer, born April 4 1927; died April 13 2001, Scots comedian whose warmth and sincerity shone through his performances on stage and screen, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. They formed a successful show business partnership and it was natural that Jimmy would follow in their footsteps. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. "It goes on all night. It was a financial gamble that took every penny Logan had (40,000 was his share) along with substantial loans from the bank. Logan devised a series of sophisticated revues, Five Past Eight, that drew Scotland-wide audiences to Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. 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. Something went wrong, please try again later. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. 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. Logan even set up a mobile ticket office that went round the schemes. 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. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. My father told me: "Son, get out of that rubbish!" I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. Unfortunately, remains of a baby have been found in woodland close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. Both Jims mothers knew their sons had a twin brother. Born: 1945 in Glasgow. James Jim Lewis, of Lima Ohio, was adopted in 1940 just three weeks after he was born. Died: 26 July, 2010, in Helensburgh, aged 65. 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). He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. 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. One woman ventured out to see what outlets would offer her freebies for her special day. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. The place was in uproar and somewhere in the darker recesses of my mind there came a sort of 'Eureka'! We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. "[29], He wrote: "I was also recording a television programme that in my heart of hearts I thought wasn't right."[30]. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. Data Provided By 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. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. News Coverage of the Funeral of Jimmy Logan (2001) - YouTube Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan OBE in 2001. Born into a showbusiness family, his father, John Short (known as 'Jack'), and mother, May Dalziel, toured as the musical hall double act 'Short and Dalziel'. 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. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. 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. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. 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. This included plans for restaurants and cocktail bars in a new building next to the hotel. A year later he was on the boards himself.[3]. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. While reminiscing on this nugget of history we realised something. Consequently, the family home was always filled with music and the sound of somebody singing. 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. His involvement ceased after about six years when it was decided that people should be elected rather than appointed. 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! 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]. 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. Due to high winds, however, the regular compere Tommy Trinder failed to get a flight up from London in time for the live broadcast and Logan was asked to stand in a huge undertaking because, as well as having to come up with lots of new material, he also had to learn the format of the show and all the games that were played on it.[20]. He staged an adaptation of Oor Wullie, the Sunday Post comic strip character, for the Dundee stage. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. 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. Glasgow salon owner visiting Turkish home after earthquake shares heartbreaking video of devastation. Due to the fact they're identical twins, but one was made . He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. 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). The brass plate on the Melville Monument dedicated to Henry Dundas claims he used his influence to delay the abolition of slavery. 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. Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop. Ash Regan claimed a devolved parliament could set up a new central bank and ditch the pound just months after a vote for indepenence. In 1994 he was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Glasgow Caledonian University, and then in 1996 he was awarded the OBE. 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. He was also helped by sympathetic neighbours, especially Angela Mackenzie who lived in the east wing of the house she later became his driver and dresser during his continuing career. Even as a young man, he campaigned at Equity meetings for the rights of chorus girls and smaller acts. Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. [1] [6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. Join our linker program. 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. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. In 1994 Glasgow Caledonian University conferred an honorary degree on him and he became a Doctor of Letters. It was quite a disappointment when the pantomime was able to recommence. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. 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. Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. Wherever it played in Britain audiences flocked from all over. Play. His Scots accent, though broad, was not indecipherable to English viewers, although he was happy to lay the doric on with a trowel much later in his career as Rab C Nesbitt's father-in-law in the successful comedy TV series of the 1990s. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the outlook for the Metropole looked bleak. In 1979, Jim Lewis met Jim Springer, and the truth behind their startling similarities came out. [8] As a result, he became a household name in Scotland, but a big slump in the British film industry meant he received no further film offers at the time. Get it."[9]. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. Check out these conjoined twins that survived being separated at the head, the worlds most difficult surgery. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. 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]. In this day and age, if they wanted a public profile, they could easily do that with social media. After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. But it was merely a stay of execution. Eddie Fraser was the producer. 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. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. So in the interest of reliving the Big Brother glory days, allow us to take you on a journey back in time to that house on the Gold Coast tucked off to the side of Dreamworld (which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout) where Australian reality TV was born. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. 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. THE former wife of late Scots showbiz star Jimmy Logan has remarried. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. Was a major coup. "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. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins . He attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. Greg used his half of the winnings wisely, becoming a pub owner in Newcastle. 21 North Korean Propaganda Depictions Of Americans, No, The Civil War Wasn't About "States' Rights" Just Slavery, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. Logan felt their act was getting tired and suggested the play to Milroy who was not keen at first. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. I'd rather do a wee bit, go off, come back on and go off." Despite having been declared by the press as one of the country's best young comics, Logan was still little known outside of Glasgow. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. 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 had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. were arrested. Being centred in the south or north of England, most of their references left me bewildered. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. Logan's warmth and sincerity shone through his performances. There were also plaudits for his television performances. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. 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. Worse was to follow. The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. Getting . Although he was principally known as a comedian and entertainer in his earlier days, he nevertheless showed his abilities as a dramatic actor in his first film "Floodtide" at the age of 21. [7] Logan collected Lauder memorabilia, which is now housed in the Scottish Theatre Archive at the University of Glasgow. The nature of their business meant their young family stayed at a number of houses in a number of different cities. He is also a dad. I was on piano, my dad played the accordion, my mother, Buddy and Heather sang, and Bertie did other things including playing the xylophone. 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. "[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 was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. James Logan was an actor, known for Mary Poppins (1964), You Are There (1953) and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). Someone crashes a car through a convenience store window. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. 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. Because how fun are identical twins. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. If they liked something no matter what it was they would say: "Aw lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits. 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. 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. Positions: 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. Milo, 14, Iggy, 12, and Scout, 6, appear to be based in Avalon with mum who late last year re-married her partner Hayden Guppy. Springers mother was under the impression that the twin had died, while Lewis mother knew a bit more. 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"! The best part, was when Greg spent the entire eviction with a lollipop in his mouth. 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]. Fail and theyd have to enter as one person, aka, nominated and evicted as one. 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. [17], Logan made his TV debut on 4 March 1953 when he compered Cabaret from Scotland, Scotland's first televised cabaret, live from the Central Hotel, Glasgow, and broadcast across the BBC-tv network. In 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. Good on them (but where are you please). 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. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. 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. The cost of producing the shows was phenomenal but the standard was superb. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. They moved into a house together in London and Logan spent his time between the capital and 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. Bryan Sears was brought in as producer instead but he did not get on with Logan and the show was, in Logan's words, 'an unqualified disaster. a parody of Adam Faith's "What Do You Want". But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. Or write about sports? No recording of this show is known to exist. 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. Warner Bros. TV. Later on in the series, a special eviction was held where one twin was evicted based on the votes of the other housemates and the remaining twin was allowed to continue on as a normal housemate. Jimmy Uso: Bio. The latest incarnation of The Jimmy Logan Show, a variety show with songs, laughter and special guests, was a lot more successful than his previous series of nearly a decade earlier. [], 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. 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. View Jimmy Logan results in Texas (TX) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. Four days later he was meeting him in person. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". 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]. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. 1950 The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. Family of missing Scots man 'worried sick' and 'desperate for papa to come home'. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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. He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. 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. 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 commercial became hugely successful when it went out on STV. 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?. He was acting a bit different," Glenn told Gretel in a weird 'Big Brother breaks the fourth wall scenario' in the diary room. 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