"I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. In 1988 he became a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! 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'. 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. Play. Logan began work as a child, selling programmes at his parents' shows. In 1955 Logan undertook a two-week run in variety season at the London Palladium "the greatest variety theatre in the world" as he described it after being invited to do so by the theatre's boss, Val Parnell. 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. [], In the early days there would be about eight different programmes in the 22-week season, and we had a lot of gags and sketches to fill each one up. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. 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'. Murder probe after man shot dead on doorstep of Greenock home in 'targeted' attack. . "My father and mother were in showbusiness. 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. 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. 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. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. 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. "I wanted to witness this wonderful new medium in the land that was really pioneering its progress," he recalled. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. He initially fronted a couple of one-off comedy variety shows for the BBC-tv network from London. 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. Wherever it played in Britain audiences flocked from all over. 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. Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. 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. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Logan was married to Grace in 1958. Enjoy this article on thw Jim Twins? Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. He wanted to concentrate on the glamour and the spectacle of the show, the emphasis on dancers in tails rather than the rather low-brow humour of Logan's act. On opening night it was revealed the $1 million prize was also getting the shakeup. Good on them (but where are you please). In its ten months at the Metropole in 1971 it was a great success and saved the theatre from immediate closure. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. The brass plate on the Melville Monument dedicated to Henry Dundas claims he used his influence to delay the abolition of slavery. Duncan Macrae was elected chairman of the new committee, with two vice-chairmen: Lennox Milne, Edinburgh, and Roddy MacMillan, Glasgow. His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. Logan devised a series of sophisticated revues, Five Past Eight, that drew Scotland-wide audiences to Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. We've been dating twins for a few months now and we surprised our friends with them!! View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The King Street Hotel, Argyle House and Greenroof Hotel are all part of his empire with his smart investments turning him into a multi-millionaire. Many thanks to him. "[27] "I learned in later years when I was peforming serious plays like Death of a Salesman that I had learned so many valuable lessons from appearing in Sam Cree comedies."[201]. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. 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. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? When a new director, Dickie Hurran took over. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. We encourage you to . "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". 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. The Calum Kennedy Show opened the Metropole, followed by the gala opening performance of Wedding Fever on 1 September 1964, directed by Eddie Fraser, with a cast including Marillyn Gray, Paul Young, Stanley Baxter's sister Alice Dale, and Morag Hood. The bulk of what they discovered centered around the effect environment has on child-rearing and the way genetics factor in as a comparison. 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]. 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. He left school at 14 with no qualifications, but already certain that his future lay in the world of entertainment. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. 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. Gunshots caught on chilling doorbell footage in Greenock street after dad 'shot dead'. The writers kept suggesting things like using the sound effect of a seagull when something funny happened. 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 1994 Glasgow Caledonian University conferred an honorary degree on him and he became a Doctor of Letters. Tragic hillwalker and dog who plunged 100ft in Glencoe to have ashes scattered together. But it was a big success and they were soon signed to perform it at the Glasgow Pavilion, beginning a wonderful career.[26]. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . "I was picking up different vibes that he was two different people. . The bemused carpenter suddenly found himself on stage with Logan doing a This is Your Life on him, and soon the audience was spellbound by the old man's stories of the great music hall stars he had known. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. They formed a successful show business partnership and it was natural that Jimmy would follow in their footsteps. Our secret was never down to good scripts because we didn't have any scripts. Family of missing Scots man 'worried sick' and 'desperate for papa to come home'. 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. Scores from any date in Major League history, Minor, Foreign, College, & Black Baseball, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREE. I have heard better singers than Jimmy quite a number. conjoined twins that survived being separated. 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. 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. 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]. Do you have a blog? James Jim Springer, of Piqua Ohio, was adopted in 1940 just three weeks after he was born. 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. We present them here for purely educational purposes. 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. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. While reminiscing on this nugget of history we realised something. The twins, who are now 15, live in Inverness with their mother, Pamela Donald, whom Logan married in 1985, and natural father. In 1993 he received the Gulliver Award for excellence in the theatre. A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". The Fabulous Fifties was a nostalgic evocation of Scottish variety's last gasp. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. were arrested. 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! 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. Logan concluded: "The Scottishness was being drummed out of the show, and Dickie Hurran failed to realise that was the core of its success."[25]. Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. . "The real Jimmy Logan, if the truth be told, knows virtually nothing about football and most certainly doesn't support a team."[33]. . Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop. Scott Taylor, who plays for Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale, is recovering in hospital in an induced coma after undergoing a 10-hour operation. His involvement ceased after about six years when it was decided that people should be elected rather than appointed. But never forget Sausages is the boys."[10]. 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. It was as dramatic as that.[11]. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. 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