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. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions of the theatre. He also appeared on the first night of Scottish Television in 1956. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. They discovered upon meeting each other that they both suffered from tension headaches, were prone to nail biting, and even discovered that they smoked the same brand of cigarettes and vacationed on the same Florida beach. James Jim Springer, of Piqua Ohio, was adopted in 1940 just three weeks after he was born. He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. News Coverage of the Funeral of Jimmy Logan (2001) - YouTube Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan OBE in 2001. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. in his own words "my responsibilities to the building and my debts were destined to crush me for another decade.". Logan was born a Protestant. "I don't want any of this play thing," Milroy told him. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. Jimmy Uso: Bio. 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. 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. 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). It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. Someone crashes a car through a convenience store window. 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. We did all sorts of things. 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]. "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. While reminiscing on this nugget of history we realised something. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. "The real Jimmy Logan, if the truth be told, knows virtually nothing about football and most certainly doesn't support a team."[33]. "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.". 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". [1] [6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. 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. In this day and age, if they wanted a public profile, they could easily do that with social media. 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. Do you have a sports website? In 1994 Glasgow Caledonian University conferred an honorary degree on him and he became a Doctor of Letters. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. We encourage you to . Eddie Fraser was the producer. 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. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. Glasgow salon owner visiting Turkish home after earthquake shares heartbreaking video of devastation. The nature of their business meant their young family stayed at a number of houses in a number of different cities. 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 first acting role was in the film Floodtide (1949),[7] a drama set on Clydeside. [16] A few months later they drafted in Logan as vice-chairman. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. When his divorce to Grace came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're twins. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. 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. There were also plaudits for his television performances. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. 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. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. During the Second World War his parents went off round Britain entertaining the troops with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). How do we create a person's profile? 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. In 1965, Logan's friend, Francis Essex, the head of productions at STV, wrote him asking if he had any ideas for new material. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. We were fed a diet of comedians who, while brilliant at their craft, were somewhat foreign to me [] they were all very funny in their own right but tended to talk about things I knew little or nothing about. Despite having been declared by the press as one of the country's best young comics, Logan was still little known outside of Glasgow. Check out these conjoined twins that survived being separated at the head, the worlds most difficult surgery. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. Good on them (but where are you please). Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. Take a look at some of the famous twins of Hollywood, including Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and more. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. ": Carry on Abroad (1972) and Carry on Girls (1973), the latter of which he played a gay director. Greg and David were given a task as the seasons exciting new play-thing. Logan was chairman of the board of directors, his father was managing director, and his mother and wife Grace the remaining directors. Jimmy Logan died of cancer on 13 April 2001 in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, nine days after his 73rd birthday. Opened on 26 May 1976. Born: March 24, 1965 Full Name: James Thomas Logan View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [7] Logan collected Lauder memorabilia, which is now housed in the Scottish Theatre Archive at the University of Glasgow. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. 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. When a new director, Dickie Hurran took over. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours 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 a financial gamble that took every penny Logan had (40,000 was his share) along with substantial loans from the bank. Frank Kinnis, 83, suffered fatal injuries after David Johnstone stamped on his head in woodland in Elgin. Greg used his half of the winnings wisely, becoming a pub owner in Newcastle. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. Day Two in the house was basically a detail by detail unpacking of what was different about each twin. His parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, were a Glasgow music-hall double act. 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 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. But I don't know of any contemporary Scots comic whom it so warms my heart to watch, who commands my sympathy to the extent that Jimmy does. A year later he was on the boards himself.[3]. He left school at 14 and became assistant manager of Paisley's Victory Theatre. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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 published his autobiography, It's a Funny Life, in 1998.[3]. I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. In March 2001 Scotland's show business stars led a stage spectacular, "A Celebration for Jimmy Logan", in his honour at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre, and it was sold out even before the box office opened! Logan was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow, a member of a family of entertainers; the tradition began with his parents (Jack Short and Mary Dalziel "May" Allan) who were the music hall act Short and Dalziel. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Logan asks a landlady what she thinks of the product and in a series of different ways she would repeatedly say "Lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits.". The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. His belief in himself was justified, as his natural flair for comedy was so great that by the age of 19 he was principal comedian at the Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street, Glasgow. 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. 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