"When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". The nature of their business meant their young family stayed at a number of houses in a number of different cities. 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'. Because how fun are identical twins. 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. He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. 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. The writers kept suggesting things like using the sound effect of a seagull when something funny happened. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. 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). Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. On opening night it was revealed the $1 million prize was also getting the shakeup. The former Celtic skipper was proud of his players as they battled for 45 minutes with ten men, only to lose in the 90th minute. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. Sherilyn Fenn As Sasha & Anna. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. In 1994 Glasgow Caledonian University conferred an honorary degree on him and he became a Doctor of Letters. The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. In the winter of 1955 Logan starred in the first Howard & Wyndham pantomime at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow, which the company had just bought. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. 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. Courteney Cox responds to Prince Harry's memoir claims he took magic mushrooms at her house. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions of the theatre. "The real Jimmy Logan, if the truth be told, knows virtually nothing about football and most certainly doesn't support a team."[33]. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. 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 . [16] A few months later they drafted in Logan as vice-chairman. 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. Ash Regan claimed a devolved parliament could set up a new central bank and ditch the pound just months after a vote for indepenence. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. The cost of producing the shows was phenomenal but the standard was superb. Earlier he had tried his hand at business by buying the Metropole, but it was not a success. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. Scott Taylor, who plays for Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale, is recovering in hospital in an induced coma after undergoing a 10-hour operation. Being centred in the south or north of England, most of their references left me bewildered. [22] Eddie Fraser and George Inns were to produce and direct again, but the BBC subsequently decided Fraser was required in Glasgow and, then, Inns was forced to pull out. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. I never knew he existed either. The following Thursday a memorial service was held for him in Glasgow Cathedral once again he had a packed house. Emmerdale's Amy Nuttall 'discovered Andrew Buchan's affair from racy lingerie purchase'. 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. . 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. 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. 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. Well done to Greg, though, sounds like hes made the most of his winnings in a business that can be quite risky. . Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 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. 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. 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. Do you have a sports website? Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop, More Jimmy Logan Pages at Baseball Reference, Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 1:07PM. Gunshots caught on chilling doorbell footage in Greenock street after dad 'shot dead'. Along with his twin brother Jey, Jimmy has caused nightmares for the WWE Tag Team division for years. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins . And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. 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. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. Michael Mosley shares the weight loss snack that 'won't add to your waistline'. It was that passing message that ultimately drove Jim Lewis to look for his twin. A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". His father was a Rangers fan though. 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. My father told me: "Son, get out of that rubbish!" Though theres no doubt that the Jim twins are alike in multiple ways, one brother has since diverged from the shared lifestyle. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. Or write about sports? In the 1986, at the behest of Frank Dunlop, he took his one-man show about Sir Harry Lauder to the Edinburgh Festival, playing, not inappropriately, at the town hall in nearby Portobello, where the tang of the sea wafted in on the performance. Do you have a blog? 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. 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. 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. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. Both Jims mothers knew their sons had a twin brother. Glasgow salon owner visiting Turkish home after earthquake shares heartbreaking video of devastation. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. The children then moved back to Glasgow to live with their parents in Ibrox, with Logan moving to the local school, Bellahouston Academy. "I was picking up different vibes that he was two different people. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Logan even set up a mobile ticket office that went round the schemes. 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. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. . Getting . Data Provided By The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. 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. 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. Some people said she chose the name Logan after sticking a pin in a newspaper race sheet and coming up with a horse called 'Triumphant Logan' Logan, 19. Jimmy Logan (19282001) was a Scottish comedian, actor, theatrical producer, impresario and director, who was a frequent broadcaster on both radio and television in the post-war era. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." His father decided it was not a good idea for his son to share the same surname because the audience might think they were not getting their money's worth, and so from 1943 James Short became 'Jim Logan'. Aldi launches tasty Easter treat 2 cheaper than high street equivalent. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard Rangers fan. Many thanks to him. Logan made his pantomime debut in 1952 when he was signed up by Howard & Wyndham to star in Robinson Crusoe at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. 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. 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). 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. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. 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]. Springers mother was under the impression that the twin had died, while Lewis mother knew a bit more. For the first time on stage, it made people laugh at the Catholic/Protestant divide that was predominant in parts of Scotland. Logan did 14 comedy plays with Cree, each of them made for family laughter. 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]. 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. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. "Those films paid poorly," he wrote, "but I was so desperate I needed the money. Logan felt their act was getting tired and suggested the play to Milroy who was not keen at first. [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. It was so well liked I became known as Jimmy 'Lovely Biscuits' Logan. If they liked something no matter what it was they would say: "Aw lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits. One woman ventured out to see what outlets would offer her freebies for her special day. Mehmet Sunna, who runs Sunna Salon Furniture in the city, has spoken of the moment found his hometown Pazarcik reduced to rubble. Play. "These comedy plays saved by career and exposed people to a Jimmy Logan they never knew existed. There were also plaudits for his television performances. Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. 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. 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. Five thousand would be subtracted every time a housemate broke a rule. The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. . Andrew is best known for his role in the STV drama Broadchurch reportedly left his wife of 11 years after falling for his co-star Leila Farzad, 39. Our secret was never down to good scripts because we didn't have any scripts. In 1979, Jim Lewis met Jim Springer, and the truth behind their startling similarities came out. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're twins. 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. Jimmy was delighted as he believed them to be his first children and three years later the family moved to part of 152 East Clyde Street in Helensburgh (pictured left). They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? 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). 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. It was released to cinemas in May 1949 and was a success. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. Jimmy Uso: Bio. Theatre was the major form of entertainment when Logan came to prominence in the 1950s, but it was clear to him that television was going to play a major part in the future after it arrived in Scotland (in 1952) and he went to America to study commercial television. 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. Almsot 400,000 people came to the Alhambra during that 24-week season, almost ten per cent of the Scottish population. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not 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. The best part, was when Greg spent the entire eviction with a lollipop in his mouth. "I don't want any of this play thing," Milroy told him. His London stage debut came in The Mating Game (1973). He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. Something went wrong, please try again later. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. One was a plumber, the other sold beer as a sales rep. His father then decided 'Jimmy' was a better first name for the rising comic and he began appearing under that name from 1947. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. When Logan was working at the London Palladium in pantomime he got a writer to come up with a play for the double act Francie and Josie, played by Rikki Fulton and Jack Milroy. in his own words "my responsibilities to the building and my debts were destined to crush me for another decade.". 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. 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. Logan attributed the success to the play's subject matter. Despite having been declared by the press as one of the country's best young comics, Logan was still little known outside of Glasgow. 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. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. We did all sorts of things. He was joined initially by two other young actors, Eddie Fraser and Primrose Milligan, and a couple of members of the Scottish Variety Orchestra. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. Amazon Fire TV Stick users may soon start seeing a warning message when trying to side-load dodgy unofficial apps. By 1950 ha had his own radio . As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. 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]. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. [21] The presenter was Tommy Trinder. In its ten months at the Metropole in 1971 it was a great success and saved the theatre from immediate closure. This perception came from plays like Wedding Fever where he played a Rangers fan. Facebook gives people the power to. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". 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. It was a financial gamble that took every penny Logan had (40,000 was his share) along with substantial loans from the bank. . He initially fronted a couple of one-off comedy variety shows for the BBC-tv network from London. 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 1993 came a follow-up at the festival. His memoir, It's a Funny Life, was published in 1998. However, he was left facing financial ruin after he bought Glasgow's Metropol Theatre. 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. 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. [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]. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies focusing on medical and psychological characteristics of twins. But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. In 1993 his divorce was complete, he survived a quadruple heart bypass, and then to the delight of his friends he married Angela and they enjoyed eight years of happy life together. He also owns hotels and restaurants. But that's all we got. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. 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. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. 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. Join our linker program. It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. 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. In fact many people still know me better for Lovely Biscuits than anything else. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. 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?. Wherever it played in Britain audiences flocked from all over. Worse was to follow. News Coverage of the Funeral of Jimmy Logan (2001) - YouTube Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan OBE in 2001. 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. [7] Logan collected Lauder memorabilia, which is now housed in the Scottish Theatre Archive at the University of Glasgow. I have heard better singers than Jimmy quite a number. 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. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. 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. In 1990 his services to Scottish entertainment, and to charity, led to Logan being awarded an OBE. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. 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. More bio, uniform, draft, salary info He toured the show extensively, dancing and working his way through 36 Lauder songs. There are 40+ professionals named "Jimmy Logan", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. When a new director, Dickie Hurran took over. The twins, who are now 15, live in Inverness with their mother, Pamela Donald, whom Logan married in 1985, and natural father. [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. Micheal shared some of the benefits of eating one type of food, including improved brain health. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? When they weren't "in play" they were holed up in the isolation room playing playstation and watching DVDs (remember those.). Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. No recording of this show is known to exist. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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]. 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. In 1964 Logan bought the New Metropole Theatre at St George's Cross, Glasgow for 80,000 (not to be confused with the original Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street which burned down in 1961) and renamed it 'Jimmy Logan's Metropole Theatre'. Find out more. But never forget Sausages is the boys."[10]. Fenn, who's also famous for playing seductive teen Audrey Horne on Twin Peaks, played both . He had a son named James Allan Springer, worked as a deputy sheriff, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. "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 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. SNP leadership contender Ash Regan announces 'bonkers' currency plan for independent Scotland. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Ultimately, both Jimmy and his daughter overcome the Loganand Americancurse. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". B B the C gull. Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. In 1998 he appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt as the father-in-law of Rab's son Gash. 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