Logan's stage act included character-based sketches, and these transferred well to the British television of the 1950s. Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. His big house in Dowanhill, Glasgow had gone in the divorce from Grace - slept on the settee in the front room his father's one-bedroom flat in Ibrox for two years. Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? 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. 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. He was acting a bit different," Glenn told Gretel in a weird 'Big Brother breaks the fourth wall scenario' in the diary room. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. 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. 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. A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. 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. In Scotland, and occasionally elsewhere in Britain, Jimmy Logan appeared in 35 pantomimes, usually as the dame, and when variety went into decline he switched with ease to straight acting. Both Jims mothers knew their sons had a twin brother. (Jimmy) Logan. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. He had a son named James Allan Springer, worked as a deputy sheriff, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. Logan died of cancer in a hospital in Clydebank,[8] West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, nine days after his 73rd birthday. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. His connection with pantomime continued throughout his life,[3] most famously with the long-running pantomimes produced by Howard & Wyndham in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Aberdeen.[4][5]. 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. Despite only being 21 years old he had packed a wealth of theatrical experience more than many veterans twice his age and had developed into a distinguished 'all-rounder', as a comedian, singer, and actor of both straight and character parts. The following Thursday a memorial service was held for him in Glasgow Cathedral once again he had a packed house. 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. Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. There's even less of a trace of David online. 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. After 16 weeks the shows were stopped. Based in Glasgow, he was one of five children of a famous family. It was that passing message that ultimately drove Jim Lewis to look for his twin. Data Provided By 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. [32] 1976 Lauder at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. During this event he made his last appearance on stage. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. "Most Kyiv business people are away from 20th December to the 15th of January. 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. This perception came from plays like Wedding Fever where he played a Rangers fan. 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. 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. It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. James Allan Short, OBE, FRSAMD (1928-2001), known professionally as Jimmy Logan, 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. 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. View Jimmy Logan results in Texas (TX) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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. 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. The response was phenomenal, and before we knew where we were it had really taken on "You can build your skyscrapers, you can build your palashes, you can take vast areas of the desert and ush oil and water. "I was picking up different vibes that he was two different people. Scott Taylor, who plays for Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale, is recovering in hospital in an induced coma after undergoing a 10-hour operation. There were five children and we all had our jobs to do," he said in a BBC interview. Get it."[9]. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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. . 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. "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. Died. 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. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. Because how fun are identical twins. Logan was born a Protestant. 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. In 1998 he produced his best-selling autobiography, aptly entitled "It's a Funny Life". In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. [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]. After the War, when the family got together again for a series of 18-week summer seasons at the Metropole Theatre, Glasgow, his father came up with the idea of them appearing together as "The Logan Family". 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]. 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. Twins Separated At Birth Reunited To Find Theyd Led The Same Life. Join Facebook to connect with Jimmy Logan and others you may know. Dramatic scenes unfolded as the girls gathered around the firepit and Claudia Fogarty attempted to clear the air by saying the girls were 'meant to stick together'. 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. They were magnificent, glamorous affairs full of great comedy, and lively singing and dancing. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. Logan was awarded an honorary doctorate by Glasgow Caledonian University (1994), honoured with the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)[2] for "services to Scottish theatre" in 1996, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1998. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. . Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. 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? Murder probe after man shot dead on doorstep of Greenock home in 'targeted' attack. 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. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. [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. Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies focusing on medical and psychological characteristics of twins. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. Our secret was never down to good scripts because we didn't have any scripts. We took a lot of chances, and just made it up was we went along. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. Fail and theyd have to enter as one person, aka, nominated and evicted as one. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. 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. 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. Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. 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. By 1950 ha had his own radio . Logan began work as a child, selling programmes at his parents' shows. View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. When his divorce to Grace came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! Springers mother was under the impression that the twin had died, while Lewis mother knew a bit more. He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. Logan felt their act was getting tired and suggested the play to Milroy who was not keen at first. 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. Logan even set up a mobile ticket office that went round the schemes. which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout. 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. His aunt, Ella Logan, was a Broadway singer who starred in the original Finian's Rainbow, and his sister, Annabelle, is jazz singer Annie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. Logan returned to the Five Past Eight show for the summer season of 1960, heading the cast along with Jack Radcliffe and Eve Boswell. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. Jimmy was distraught, but with typical courage bounced back, helped by his sister, the famous jazz singer, Annie Ross, who flew over from the USA to be with him for several months. Good comics know how to make bad jokes good, and if you got a big laugh at the end of a sketch like that you had succeeded.[6]. He rose to the Office of Senior Deacon, but his Masonic career was cut short in 1951 when he was offered a part in a play in Edinburgh, following which he received numerous acting and television offers. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. Do you have a sports website? Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago. 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 toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. 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. The children then moved back to Glasgow to live with their parents in Ibrox, with Logan moving to the local school, Bellahouston Academy. Facebook gives people the power to. The bank would lend him no more money and the Metropole closed in 1973 with Logan in debt to the tune of 170,000. 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. It was during those six consecutive years at the Metropole that Jim's father decided that his son should be a comic, taking part in sketches which were mostly ad-libbed: I discovered I had a flair to play a schoolboy with a slight lisp that always got good laughs. 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. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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. I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. His plans, however, fell foul of licensing authorities. Though theres no doubt that the Jim twins are alike in multiple ways, one brother has since diverged from the shared lifestyle. The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. The writers kept suggesting things like using the sound effect of a seagull when something funny happened. Family of missing Scots man 'worried sick' and 'desperate for papa to come home'. 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. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. In 1998 he appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt as the father-in-law of Rab's son Gash. 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. 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. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. A pair of identical twins (not the Jim Twins). A one-off special edition of The Jimmy Logan Show from the Alhambra was broadcast on the evening of Saturday 14 October 1961. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies . Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. 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. Logan was chairman of the board of directors, his father was managing director, and his mother and wife Grace the remaining directors. Earlier he had tried his hand at business by buying the Metropole, but it was not a success. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. The following year Hurran brought in Max Bygraves, a massive star at the time, who was a big success, but the show was vastly more expensive and the profits dropped. After a prologue that features the twin fetishes of John Denver nostalgia and pickup-truck repair, the action gets set in motion when Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), a beefy divorced dad who lives . SNP leadership contender Ash Regan announces 'bonkers' currency plan for independent Scotland. On Wednesday's instalment of the Channel 4 property show, Julie and Peter enlisted Lee's help to find their dream holiday home in South West France. 1950 The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. 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). We havent seen or heard anything from Greg and David in years. This included plans for restaurants and cocktail bars in a new building next to the hotel. 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. He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. Successful new claims for Pension Credit may also qualify for the 900 cost of living payment. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. 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. Almsot 400,000 people came to the Alhambra during that 24-week season, almost ten per cent of the Scottish population. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. While he was best known for driving three different cars, all of which were not vans, he did have access to other kinds of vehicles because he worked transport the brickyard, according to the Fall Line. Warner Bros. TV. Unfortunately, remains of a baby have been found in woodland close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. Logan devised a series of sophisticated revues, Five Past Eight, that drew Scotland-wide audiences to Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. News Coverage of the Funeral of Jimmy Logan (2001) - YouTube Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan OBE in 2001. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. 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. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. He was named James by his adoptive parents and had a dog named Toy. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. 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. 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. In 1979, Jim Lewis met Jim Springer, and the truth behind their startling similarities came out. Duncan Macrae was elected chairman of the new committee, with two vice-chairmen: Lennox Milne, Edinburgh, and Roddy MacMillan, Glasgow. The ring, however, paints a very different picture. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. 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. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. 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. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. 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. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. Neil Wilson was found seriously injured on Nairn Road at around 1.15am on Tuesday morning. "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.". On opening night it was revealed the $1 million prize was also getting the shakeup. 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). Positions: Jimmy's first radio appearance was with his family in a Logan Show broadcast from a Paisley cinema [date unknown]. conjoined twins that survived being separated. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. . 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. It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . 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. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." 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?. Produced by ITP for ATV, it was broadcast on Sunday 29 July 1956 (20:0021:00)in England only. But that's all we got. He also appeared on the first night of Scottish Television in 1956. 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"! 'Schizophrenic's' brutal slaying of Scots dog walker 'could not have been predicted'. Eddie Fraser was the producer. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. Micheal shared some of the benefits of eating one type of food, including improved brain health. [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. 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 was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. A year later he was on the boards himself.[3]. 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. An extensive archive of his personal papers and performance ephemera is now held by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland archives. Close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Lovely Biscuits '' in response just. 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