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. She walked out on him. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. 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. There were so many sketches you didn't have time to mess about on such trivial things as what was going to be in them. Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. 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. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". 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. 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. In turn, Logan influenced others: Billy Connolly decided to become an entertainer after seeing him in pantomime. Buddy would be singing a nice melody and I would be screaming in the background: "Oh, dear God, take him away."[5]. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard 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. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. Springers mother was under the impression that the twin had died, while Lewis mother knew a bit more. It was so well liked I became known as Jimmy 'Lovely Biscuits' Logan. Logan began work as a child, selling programmes at his parents' shows. A one-off special edition of The Jimmy Logan Show from the Alhambra was broadcast on the evening of Saturday 14 October 1961. How do we create a person's profile? 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. [1] His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. Something went wrong, please try again later. THE former wife of late Scots showbiz star Jimmy Logan has remarried. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. 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. He initially fronted a couple of one-off comedy variety shows for the BBC-tv network from London. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. Four days later he was meeting him in person. Unfortunately, remains of a baby have been found in woodland close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. His London stage debut came in The Mating Game (1973). The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. 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 his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. But it was a big success and they were soon signed to perform it at the Glasgow Pavilion, beginning a wonderful career.[26]. 1. Few things were put together in advance. Logan did 14 comedy plays with Cree, each of them made for family laughter. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. His parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, were a Glasgow music-hall double act. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. Shortly after joining the organisation he was able to afford a ten-room house in Dowanhill in the west end of Glasgow for 1,500; he bought a Rolls-Royce with the registration plate 'JL10', which he employed a chauffeur to drive; and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself.[13]. "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.". By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. 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. [32] 1976 Lauder at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. Join Facebook to connect with Jimmy Logan and others you may know. 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. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. a parody of Adam Faith's "What Do You Want". He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours 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. In 1968 Logan was offered his own colour TV series on the BBC. 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. Despite having been declared by the press as one of the country's best young comics, Logan was still little known outside of Glasgow. I'd rather do a wee bit, go off, come back on and go off." Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins @miantwins The Twin's instagram and tiktok! Then, read about the Hilton sisters, conjoined twins who made a life for themselves as part of a freak show. If they liked something no matter what it was they would say: "Aw lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits. Do you have a sports website? "My father and mother were in showbusiness. When their divorce came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. Mehmet Sunna, who runs Sunna Salon Furniture in the city, has spoken of the moment found his hometown Pazarcik reduced to rubble. 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. We encourage you to . . People of State Pension age living on their own may be due extra 201 each week from April. Sherilyn Fenn As Sasha & Anna. Due to the fact they're identical twins, but one was made . At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. Warner Bros. TV. One woman ventured out to see what outlets would offer her freebies for her special day. Logan's stage act included character-based sketches, and these transferred well to the British television of the 1950s. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". Lisa Wiltse/Getty ImagesA pair of identical twins (not the Jim Twins). Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. Fenn, who's also famous for playing seductive teen Audrey Horne on Twin Peaks, played both . We did know the punchline, though, and stretched the sketches out to round off on that. 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. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. In fact many people still know me better for Lovely Biscuits than anything 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 Calum Kennedy Show opened the Metropole, followed by the gala opening performance of Wedding Fever on 1 September 1964, directed by Eddie Fraser, with a cast including Marillyn Gray, Paul Young, Stanley Baxter's sister Alice Dale, and Morag Hood. 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 . Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies . A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". 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 refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. 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 Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. The Fabulous Fifties was a nostalgic evocation of Scottish variety's last gasp. His career instantly blossomed and he soon started a ten-year run in the famous "Five Past Eight" show at the Alhambra Theatre in the city. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. 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]. 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. I never knew he existed either. 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. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. 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. However, he was left facing financial ruin after he bought Glasgow's Metropol Theatre. Logan attributed the success to the play's subject matter. Take a look at some of the famous twins of Hollywood, including Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and more. 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. 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. 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. How dare they not share their entire lives with us like the Skyes, Tullys and Fitzys of the world. Logan felt their act was getting tired and suggested the play to Milroy who was not keen at first. 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. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. Opened on 26 May 1976. "I was picking up different vibes that he was two different people. We took a lot of chances, and just made it up was we went along. Logan was chairman of the board of directors, his father was managing director, and his mother and wife Grace the remaining directors. The murder of a debauched gangbanger leads the detectives to a pair of twins, one of whom is not all that she appears to be. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. Logan was part of a family of entertainers beginning with his parents who were the music hall act Short and Dalziel. In 1998 he appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt as the father-in-law of Rab's son Gash. He was a stocky, short man who stood at only 5-foot-4-inches. 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. During the Second World War his parents went off round Britain entertaining the troops with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Advance sales were disappointing but the play went down a storm with audiences and word quickly spread. Wherever it played in Britain audiences flocked from all over. 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. Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions 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. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. 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. . And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. Lohan soared to stardom after her performances as twins Hallie Parker and Annie James, who were separated as babies, then met at summer camp more than a decade later. Logan's warmth and sincerity shone through his performances. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. He left school at 14 and became assistant manager of Paisley's Victory Theatre. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. He left school at 14 with no qualifications, but already certain that his future lay in the world of entertainment. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. But never forget Sausages is the boys."[10]. Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. Jimmy's first radio appearance was with his family in a Logan Show broadcast from a Paisley cinema [date unknown]. 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. 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. Logan was married to Grace in 1958. At 39 years of age, Jim Lewis called the probate court, which had a record of his adoption, and contacted the Springer family in Piqua. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours The bulk of what they discovered centered around the effect environment has on child-rearing and the way genetics factor in as a comparison. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. 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. 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]. Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". After the death of her 73-year-old husband . 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. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. Someone crashes a car through a convenience store window. 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. Enjoy this article on thw Jim Twins? But even then, life was not always kind to him. Paper Subscription to the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, Paper Subscription to the Paisley Daily Express, 2023 Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd, Body of baby found in search for missing infant after parents arrested. His brother John was the vocalist 'Buddy Logan' (19211992). We havent seen or heard anything from Greg and David in years. 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). 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". Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. 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. 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. At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. He is survived by his second wife, Angela, and 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabelle. 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. were arrested. He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. 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. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. 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. 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