Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. 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. 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. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. He was joined initially by two other young actors, Eddie Fraser and Primrose Milligan, and a couple of members of the Scottish Variety Orchestra. 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. 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. The plays would be split over two different episodes, and went well, but there was a complaint from the television authorities that this kind of programme broke commercial TV rules because it generated too much free publicity for the Metropole. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Someone crashes a car through a convenience store window. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. "It goes on all night. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies focusing on medical and psychological characteristics of twins. He was initiated into the Lodge Anima No.1223 on 17th October 1948. 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. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. Logan published his autobiography, It's a Funny Life, in 1998.[3]. 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. During the Second World War his parents went off round Britain entertaining the troops with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Though theres no doubt that the Jim twins are alike in multiple ways, one brother has since diverged from the shared lifestyle. 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. We took a lot of chances, and just made it up was we went along. Because how fun are identical twins. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. 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. 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. 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. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. . 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. 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 was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. 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. a parody of Adam Faith's "What Do You Want". Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. At the age of 12 or 13 possibly around 1955 Connolly saw Logan on stage in Five Past Eight at Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre and cites him as the inspiration behind his decision to become a comedian: On the fateful night at the Alhambra, among other hysterically funny things, Jimmy came on dressed as a Glasgow coalman, trousers tied nicky-tan style below the knee, with big leather back protector over his shoulders and sang in my accent yes, my Glasgow accent! ": Carry on Abroad (1972) and Carry on Girls (1973), the latter of which he played a gay director. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. 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. Logan even set up a mobile ticket office that went round the schemes. 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. 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. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. If they wanted to come to the Metropole they were looking at a long and expensive journey two buses each way, or a bus and the tube. It was so popular company bosses would send their secretaries down to stand in queues to make sure they got their tickets for the next change of programme.[24]. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". 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. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. They were magnificent, glamorous affairs full of great comedy, and lively singing and dancing. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. He also appeared on the first night of Scottish Television in 1956. He initially fronted a couple of one-off comedy variety shows for the BBC-tv network from London. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". Destined for a life in showbusiness, James Short left school at the age of 14 without any academic qualifications. But it was merely a stay of execution. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Fenn, who's also famous for playing seductive teen Audrey Horne on Twin Peaks, played both . His father then decided 'Jimmy' was a better first name for the rising comic and he began appearing under that name from 1947. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. Logan's warmth and sincerity shone through his performances. Get it."[9]. 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. "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.". Joe Gordon and Sally Logan in the Harleqin Rooms in the Mount Royal Hotel, Edinburgh Scottish entertainer Joe Gordon, who has died in Ayr at the age of 85, enjoyed a showbusiness career spanning . Our secret was never down to good scripts because we didn't have any scripts. 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. Died: 26 July, 2010, in Helensburgh, aged 65. The place was in uproar and somewhere in the darker recesses of my mind there came a sort of 'Eureka'! 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. 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]. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. 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. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. [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]. In this day and age, if they wanted a public profile, they could easily do that with social media. The best part, was when Greg spent the entire eviction with a lollipop in his mouth. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. Do you have a sports website? The writers kept suggesting things like using the sound effect of a seagull when something funny happened. For the first time on stage, it made people laugh at the Catholic/Protestant divide that was predominant in parts of Scotland. A lot of our time was taken up just thinking what the hell we were going to do next. 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. 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. Prison inmates nearly riot in the cafeteria, pummeling each other and prison guards. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. A one-man show he had written on the life of his great hero Sir Harry Lauder. He took on a considerable amount of responsibility at a young age: as well as playing the accordion and acting as the comedian's 'feed' in sketches, he would put the show on, pay the performers, and make sure nothing went wrong. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard Rangers fan. There were five children and we all had our jobs to do," he said in a BBC interview. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. 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?. His memoir, It's a Funny Life, was published in 1998. Jimmy's career had taken him to the Albert Hall in London and to the Carnegie Hall in New York; but he still continued to take part in his real love, pantomime. . 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). Most of the money went to the people running the musical, and not the people running the Metropole. 1950 The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. 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. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. Was a major coup. Due to the fact they're identical twins, but one was made . 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. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. Slavery plaque on Scots memorial could go after plan approved for its removal. As a young man he modelled himself on the Scottish matinee idol and song and dance star of the 1930s and 40s Jack Buchanan, who had made a good living playing languid Englishmen. A pair of identical twins (not the Jim Twins). The commercial became hugely successful when it went out on STV. 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. [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. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. Buddy would be singing a nice melody and I would be screaming in the background: "Oh, dear God, take him away."[5]. . He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. Advance sales were disappointing but the play went down a storm with audiences and word quickly spread. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. The TV viewer was then led into the auditorium as though they were a special guest before things settled for the beginning of the performance. 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. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. Frank Kinnis, 83, suffered fatal injuries after David Johnstone stamped on his head in woodland in Elgin. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. THE former wife of late Scots showbiz star Jimmy Logan has remarried. 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. Finally in 1973 the bank pegged his overdraft at 170,000 and so he had to close the theatre . News Coverage of the Funeral of Jimmy Logan (2001) - YouTube Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan OBE in 2001. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. He was acting a bit different," Glenn told Gretel in a weird 'Big Brother breaks the fourth wall scenario' in the diary room. When they weren't "in play" they were holed up in the isolation room playing playstation and watching DVDs (remember those.). 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]. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. Five thousand would be subtracted every time a housemate broke a rule. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. We took a lot of our time was taken up just thinking What the hell we were going do... 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