Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. He also owns hotels and restaurants. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. 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. Join Facebook to connect with Jimmy Logan and others you may know. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. 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. The bank would lend him no more money and the Metropole closed in 1973 with Logan in debt to the tune of 170,000. Love Island fans buzz as Olivia is 'exposed' and storms off after furious Jessie row. 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]. He was initiated into the Lodge Anima No.1223 on 17th October 1948. 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. Check out these conjoined twins that survived being separated at the head, the worlds most difficult surgery. 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. 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. 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. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. Positions: SNP leadership contender Ash Regan announces 'bonkers' currency plan for independent Scotland. 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. 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 started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. 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. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. Michael Mosley shares the weight loss snack that 'won't add to your waistline'. 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.". We did all sorts of things. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Even as a young man, he campaigned at Equity meetings for the rights of chorus girls and smaller acts. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. 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. Earlier he had tried his hand at business by buying the Metropole, but it was not a success. 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'. 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. However, he was left facing financial ruin after he bought Glasgow's Metropol Theatre. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. Dramatic scenes unfolded as the girls gathered around the firepit and Claudia Fogarty attempted to clear the air by saying the girls were 'meant to stick together'. Milo, 14, Iggy, 12, and Scout, 6, appear to be based in Avalon with mum who late last year re-married her partner Hayden Guppy. He is also a dad. Find out more. Finally in 1973 the bank pegged his overdraft at 170,000 and so he had to close the theatre . They formed a successful show business partnership and it was natural that Jimmy would follow in their footsteps. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. 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 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! One of his last major dramatic roles was something of a tribute from an old admirer, appearing alongside Billy Connolly in Anthony Neilson's The Debt Collector (1998). At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. In 1993 he received the Gulliver Award for excellence in the theatre. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Many thanks to him. 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 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). A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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. 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. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . 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. [21] The presenter was Tommy Trinder. 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. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. His London stage debut came in The Mating Game (1973). From 19 February 1957 to 26 March 1957 he began a new series of comedy programmes on the Scottish Home Service, Let's Face It which replaced the popular 17 Sauchie Street at the end of its run. 1. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. Aware that he was going to have to reinvent himself to keep up with the times, they formed a company, Star Scripts Ltd, with the aim of adapting and writing comedy plays to put on at theatres round the country. 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]. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. 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. The show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. Take a look at some of the famous twins of Hollywood, including Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and more. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. 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. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. 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. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. It was a financial gamble that took every penny Logan had (40,000 was his share) along with substantial loans from the bank. Logan's biggest influence was Sir Harry Lauder "in my opinion Scotland's finest ambassador, and a true megastar," he said. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. 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. Destined for a life in showbusiness, James Short left school at the age of 14 without any academic qualifications. Greg was married to the mother of this three children former Elle magazine editor-in-chief (now Jones magazine editor) Justine Cullen, but the pair have since parted ways. His parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, were a Glasgow music-hall double act. "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.". In 1993 came a follow-up at the festival. 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. Do you have a sports website? Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins @miantwins The Twin's instagram and tiktok! So in the interest of reliving the Big Brother glory days, allow us to take you on a journey back in time to that house on the Gold Coast tucked off to the side of Dreamworld (which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout) where Australian reality TV was born. An extensive archive of his personal papers and performance ephemera is now held by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland archives. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. They were magnificent, glamorous affairs full of great comedy, and lively singing and dancing. 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. 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