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! Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. One was a plumber, the other sold beer as a sales rep. The writers kept suggesting things like using the sound effect of a seagull when something funny happened. He staged an adaptation of Oor Wullie, the Sunday Post comic strip character, for the Dundee stage. "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.". He also owns hotels and restaurants. Family of missing Scots man 'worried sick' and 'desperate for papa to come home'. During the service he was given a round of applause because Billy Connolly, who was inspired to take up entertainment by watching Jimmy, believed it was more appropriate than a minute's silence. Get it."[9]. 'Schizophrenic's' brutal slaying of Scots dog walker 'could not have been predicted'. 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]. "Most Kyiv business people are away from 20th December to the 15th of January. "[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]. Getting . Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. 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 also started appearing on his own, performing in wartime variety seasons at the Palladium in Edinburgh, and the Hippodrome and Opera House in Dunfermline. He toured the show extensively, dancing and working his way through 36 Lauder songs. In 1964 Logan bought the New Metropole Theatre at St George's Cross, Glasgow for 80,000 (not to be confused with the original Metropole Theatre in Stockwell Street which burned down in 1961) and renamed it 'Jimmy Logan's Metropole Theatre'. . Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. Both Jims mothers knew their sons had a twin brother. He had twins, a boy and a girl, with Pamela. Four days later he was meeting him in person. His first job was as an assistant manager at the Victory Theatre in Paisley, but he left after six months and began performing in open-air summer concert parties working for, and with, his parents. Died. We did know the punchline, though, and stretched the sketches out to round off on that. Good on them (but where are you please). Chief medical officer Chris Whitty told Johnson that there were no strong reason against in corridors etc, and no very strong reasons for" introducing the masks. 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'. 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. "Those films paid poorly," he wrote, "but I was so desperate I needed the money. In 1985 he married Pamela Donald and the following year twins were born. He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies focusing on medical and psychological characteristics of twins. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. One play Cree wrote for Young was Wedding Fever, which centred on the wedding of a daughter and a son, one from a Catholic family, the other from a Protestant one. He left school at 14 and became assistant manager of Paisley's Victory Theatre. He attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. 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 then married Angela on 30 July 1993. . And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. His aunt from w read more. STV used the advert for about a year, and showed it to potential advertisers as an example of the best type of advertising.[31]. His father then decided 'Jimmy' was a better first name for the rising comic and he began appearing under that name from 1947. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. 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. Day Two in the house was basically a detail by detail unpacking of what was different about each twin. 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. 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. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins @miantwins The Twin's instagram and tiktok! A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. We've been dating twins for a few months now and we surprised our friends with them!! "I was picking up different vibes that he was two different people. 13 April 2001 (aged 73) Jimmy Logan, (4 April 1928 - 13 April 2001), born James Short in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland was an Entertainer, theatre owner, producer, director, and actor. "I wanted to witness this wonderful new medium in the land that was really pioneering its progress," he recalled. Born: March 24, 1965 Full Name: James Thomas Logan View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. 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. 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. In 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. Too young to go with them, James and his siblings moved to Gourock to stay with their mother's sister, Aunt Jean, and her husband Uncle Bert Lawton. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. 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. The commercial became hugely successful when it went out on STV. 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. 1950 The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. A one-man show he had written on the life of his great hero Sir Harry Lauder. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. 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. 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. ": Carry on Abroad (1972) and Carry on Girls (1973), the latter of which he played a gay director. 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. Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. The response was phenomenal, and before we knew where we were it had really taken on "You can build your skyscrapers, you can build your palashes, you can take vast areas of the desert and ush oil and water. Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. Logan's biggest influence was Sir Harry Lauder "in my opinion Scotland's finest ambassador, and a true megastar," he said. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. 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. 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. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. Theatre was the major form of entertainment when Logan came to prominence in the 1950s, but it was clear to him that television was going to play a major part in the future after it arrived in Scotland (in 1952) and he went to America to study commercial television. His brother John was the vocalist 'Buddy Logan' (19211992). 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. He is survived by his second wife, Angela, and 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabelle. Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Love Island fans buzz as Olivia is 'exposed' and storms off after furious Jessie row. Because how fun are identical twins. 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. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. Jimmy Logan died of cancer on 13 April 2001 in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, nine days after his 73rd birthday. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. His big break came when he was offered a part in the feature film, Floodtide, alongside professional actors such as Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Elizabeth Sellars and Janet Brown. 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