In 1968 he got the chance to do pantomime at the London Palladium, performing in Robinson Crusoe, with Englebert Humperdinck in the lead role and Logan playing his brother. View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours 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. 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. In 1994 Glasgow Caledonian University conferred an honorary degree on him and he became a Doctor of Letters. 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. Because how fun are identical twins. 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"! a parody of Adam Faith's "What Do You Want". 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. The Jimmy Logan Theatre Hour was subsequently born, opening with Logan sitting behind his desk welciming the TV audience on their visit to the theatre. Logan went on to perform in a decade of pantomimes for Howard & Wyndham, each running for about 16 weeks of the year, for which he was paid the handsome rate of 500 per week. Mehmet Sunna, who runs Sunna Salon Furniture in the city, has spoken of the moment found his hometown Pazarcik reduced to rubble. Almsot 400,000 people came to the Alhambra during that 24-week season, almost ten per cent of the Scottish population. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. 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. Micheal shared some of the benefits of eating one type of food, including improved brain health. He wanted to concentrate on the glamour and the spectacle of the show, the emphasis on dancers in tails rather than the rather low-brow humour of Logan's act. conjoined twins that survived being separated. It was released to cinemas in May 1949 and was a success. 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. Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. His first acting role was in the film Floodtide (1949),[7] a drama set on Clydeside. More bio, uniform, draft, salary info He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. 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]. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. But that's all we got. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard Rangers fan. Frank Kinnis, 83, suffered fatal injuries after David Johnstone stamped on his head in woodland in Elgin. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. Advance sales were disappointing but the play went down a storm with audiences and word quickly spread. . Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". 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. [7] Logan collected Lauder memorabilia, which is now housed in the Scottish Theatre Archive at the University of Glasgow. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. 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. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. 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. It was no wonder. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. Typically he carried on acting until the end of the season before making the news public. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. A one-off special edition of The Jimmy Logan Show from the Alhambra was broadcast on the evening of Saturday 14 October 1961. [32] 1976 Lauder at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. He appeared on-stage in The Celtic Story which opened in August 1998 at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, before moving on to the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. They swapped on Big Brother's demand, regularly changing places in the diary room or the toilet, while giving the other a quick download of conversations and updates they needed to absorb. 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. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. His London stage debut came in The Mating Game (1973). Join Facebook to connect with Jimmy Logan and others you may know. James Logan was an actor, known for Mary Poppins (1964), You Are There (1953) and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). 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. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. During the service he was given a round of applause because Billy Connolly, who was inspired to take up entertainment by watching Jimmy, believed it was more appropriate than a minute's silence. 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. 'Schizophrenic's' brutal slaying of Scots dog walker 'could not have been predicted'. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. Jimmy continued to raise money for charity; Erskine Hospital for disabled ex-servicemen and women was a favourite because he had been so impressed with the treatment which his father had received there when he had had to have a leg amputated. His vision was to run American-style showbars that had never been seen in Glasgow before. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're twins. His father then decided 'Jimmy' was a better first name for the rising comic and he began appearing under that name from 1947. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Logan ad-libbed in front of the curtain to the 2,000-strong audience for a while and then asked the orchestra leader to find the theatre carpenter, who had worked there all his life and was about to retire. Logan was born a Protestant. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. Twins Separated At Birth Reunited To Find Theyd Led The Same Life. His father was a Rangers fan though. It was quite a disappointment when the pantomime was able to recommence. 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. 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. 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. [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. After the death of her 73-year-old husband . A Place In The Sun host cringes at 'hard work' couple's low offer on property. Jimmy Logan's connections with Helensburgh go back even to the time before he was born, as it was in Helensburgh that his parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, met each other. Opened on 26 May 1976. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. He was initiated into the Lodge Anima No.1223 on 17th October 1948. 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. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions of the theatre. [2] His sister Annabelle (19302020) was the actress and singer 'Annie Ross', highly successful on both sides of the Atlantic, counting Liza Minelli among her closest friends. 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. Died: 26 July, 2010, in Helensburgh, aged 65. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. It was that passing message that ultimately drove Jim Lewis to look for his twin. But it was merely a stay of execution. 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. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. (Jimmy) Logan. Was a major coup. During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. Fenn, who's also famous for playing seductive teen Audrey Horne on Twin Peaks, played both . 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. 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. 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. In 1990 his services to Scottish entertainment, and to charity, led to Logan being awarded an OBE. Amazon Fire TV Stick users may soon start seeing a warning message when trying to side-load dodgy unofficial apps. 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]. Good on them (but where are you please). James Allan Short, OBE, FRSAMD (4 April 1928 13 April 2001), known professionally as Jimmy Logan, was a Scottish performer, theatrical producer, impresario and director. 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. which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. Born: 1945 in Glasgow. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. 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). Young people in Lanarkshire can access new mental health support service through their smart phones, It's aimed at all 10 to 18-year-olds, and care experienced adults aged up to 26 years old, The food chains that give free birthday treats to customers from Greggs to Costa. Upon hearing about the Jim twins uncanny resemblances, researchers at the University of Minnesota invited the pair to come to their facility for testing. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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 show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. B B the C gull. 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