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. 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. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. Logan returned to the Five Past Eight show for the summer season of 1960, heading the cast along with Jack Radcliffe and Eve Boswell. When their divorce came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. 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. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. 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. 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. Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. He was named James by his adoptive parents and had a dog named Toy. 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 other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. Died: 26 July, 2010, in Helensburgh, aged 65. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . A one-man show he had written on the life of his great hero Sir Harry Lauder. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. 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. 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. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. As he shot more into the limelight, his parents became 'Ma and Pa Logan', and his schoolboy character's catchphrase, "It's smashin' Maw", was used as the title for the show. He brought it to the King's for a second successful run. 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. Bryan Sears was brought in as producer instead but he did not get on with Logan and the show was, in Logan's words, 'an unqualified disaster. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. There were also plaudits for his television performances. Then, read about the Hilton sisters, conjoined twins who made a life for themselves as part of a freak show. Mehmet Sunna, who runs Sunna Salon Furniture in the city, has spoken of the moment found his hometown Pazarcik reduced to rubble. Though theres no doubt that the Jim twins are alike in multiple ways, one brother has since diverged from the shared lifestyle. Jimmy was born in Glasgow on April 4 1928 the same year as Mickey Mouse, as he pointed out and he first appeared on stage at the age of 12, although his career in the theatre actually started at the age of seven as during holidays he would sell programmes, chocolates and cigarettes at his father's summer show in Northern Ireland. 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 felt their act was getting tired and suggested the play to Milroy who was not keen at first. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. But never forget Sausages is the boys."[10]. [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]. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. He claimed that because in 1964 the city fathers had an agenda to move prospective developers from St George's Cross and concentrate new shopping and entertainment developments in nearby Maryhill, "the Metropole was effectively hung out to dry. 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]. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. 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. So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." In 1979, Jim Lewis met Jim Springer, and the truth behind their startling similarities came out. 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. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. At the age of 49 (1977/78) he found himself with no home, no wife, no money. 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. 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. It was as dramatic as that.[11]. There were five children and we all had our jobs to do," he said in a BBC interview. I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. The twins, who are now 15, live in Inverness with their mother, Pamela Donald, whom Logan married in 1985, and natural father. 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. In 1985 he married Pamela Donald and the following year twins were born. Face masks were introduced in schools because Boris Johnson was told it was 'not worth an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? In the winter of 1955 Logan starred in the first Howard & Wyndham pantomime at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow, which the company had just bought. That night at the Alhambra was an example not only of Logan's quick-wittedness but of his humanity and respect for the unsung people of the theatre. Data Provided By He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. 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. Worse was to follow. After the War, when the family got together again for a series of 18-week summer seasons at the Metropole Theatre, Glasgow, his father came up with the idea of them appearing together as "The Logan Family". By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. 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. Something went wrong, please try again later. His one-man musical based on the life of Scottish entertainer Sir Harry Lauder was called Lauder (1976). Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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 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 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. We havent seen or heard anything from Greg and David in years. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. 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. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. 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. 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. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. However, he was left facing financial ruin after he bought Glasgow's Metropol Theatre. 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. But even then, life was not always kind to him. "Most Kyiv business people are away from 20th December to the 15th of January. . Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. "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.". 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. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. 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. Rank. 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. His plans, however, fell foul of licensing authorities. The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. 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. "I organise the Burns Night event with other Kyiv Lions Club members as part of our contribution of time to the club," Stuart tells me. They performed parts of their Fife Past Eight set, appearing as themselves at the opening, later on as two babies, then as two Teddy Boys. He wanted to be not just an actor, but an actor-manager, in the best old traditions of the theatre. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. 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. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. A Place In The Sun host cringes at 'hard work' couple's low offer on property. It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. 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. Fortunately, after the first six programmes, Eddie Fraser got the job as producer of the show, and brought in a young actor, Stanley Baxter, who was making a name for himself at the Citizens' Theatre. 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'. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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