It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. It was quite a disappointment when the pantomime was able to recommence. Worse was to follow. He is survived by his second wife, Angela, and 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabelle. His other catchphrase was "Smashing' in't it". 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. 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. "I was picking up different vibes that he was two different people. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. But never forget Sausages is the boys."[10]. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". Died. His brother John was the vocalist 'Buddy Logan' (19211992). 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. Edinburgh loved him.[12]. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. 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. Born: 1945 in Glasgow. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. When his divorce to Grace came through in 1967, Logan asked Gina Fratini (nee Butler), a London fashion designer, to be his wife. On 10 February 1957 he appeared on the bill of Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium' (ATV) along with Guy Mitchell and The Beverley Sisters. He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. Courteney Cox responds to Prince Harry's memoir claims he took magic mushrooms at her house. 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. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. Logan was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow, a member of a family of entertainers; the tradition began with his parents (Jack Short and Mary Dalziel "May" Allan) who were the music hall act Short and Dalziel. Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop Bats: Right Throws: Right 5-9, 165lb (175cm, 74kg) . Logan was chairman of the board of directors, his father was managing director, and his mother and wife Grace the remaining directors. Logan's warmth and sincerity shone through his performances. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. At the same time, during the summer, he performed in the hugely successful Five Past Eight revue which he did from 1954 to 1961, working alongside Jack Radcliffe and Stanley Baxter: Fortunes were spent on beautiful costumes and wonderful scenery, and by the time I did my first one at Edinburgh in 1954 they had become the top shows around. The first few years of Jimmy Logan's Metropole were a success, but all theatres were being threatened by the redevelopment of Glasgow: Thousands of people who lived round about my theatre at St George's Cross were being uprooted from their city centre tenements into the new schemes miles away on the outskirts. Around the same time he was asked to appear in Sunday Night at Blackpool, an offshoot of the popular variety show Meet the Stars which decamped to Blackpool for a series of summer shows. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. 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. The Fabulous Fifties was a nostalgic evocation of Scottish variety's last gasp. 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. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . 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. 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. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. "It goes on all night. Glasgow salon owner visiting Turkish home after earthquake shares heartbreaking video of devastation. B B the C gull. . Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. 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. Emmerdale's Amy Nuttall 'discovered Andrew Buchan's affair from racy lingerie purchase'. Amazon Fire TV Stick users may soon start seeing a warning message when trying to side-load dodgy unofficial apps. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. 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. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. This included plans for restaurants and cocktail bars in a new building next to the hotel. [2] His sister Annabelle (19302020) was the actress and singer 'Annie Ross', highly successful on both sides of the Atlantic, counting Liza Minelli among her closest friends. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours In fact many people still know me better for Lovely Biscuits than anything else. During the Second World War his parents went off round Britain entertaining the troops with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). He went on to marry a woman named Linda. The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. He was named James by his adoptive parents and had a dog named Toy. Initially a hard-working team with under-the-radar buzz . "I wanted to witness this wonderful new medium in the land that was really pioneering its progress," he recalled. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. After 16 weeks the shows were stopped. Getting . In 1968 Logan was offered his own colour TV series on the BBC. The show improved and became very successful, such that Logan became known as Jimmy 'It's All Yours' Logan. In turn, Logan influenced others: Billy Connolly decided to become an entertainer after seeing him in pantomime. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. His father then decided 'Jimmy' was a better first name for the rising comic and he began appearing under that name from 1947. Our secret was never down to good scripts because we didn't have any scripts. He rose to the Office of Senior Deacon, but his Masonic career was cut short in 1951 when he was offered a part in a play in Edinburgh, following which he received numerous acting and television offers. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. 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. Loganberry Pie was produced by the voice of children's radio Kathleen Garscadden and broadcast on the BBC-tv network. 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. Duncan Macrae was elected chairman of the new committee, with two vice-chairmen: Lennox Milne, Edinburgh, and Roddy MacMillan, Glasgow. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. There were also plaudits for his television performances. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. Both Jims mothers knew their sons had a twin brother. Received an OBE in 1996 for services to entertainment. 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. were arrested. It did not start well: The first six shows were a disaster, and the script was so bad I was getting letters saying: "You stink," and "Get off the air ya big balloon". Born: March 24, 1965 Full Name: James Thomas Logan View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. 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. We took a lot of chances, and just made it up was we went along. In 1993 his divorce was complete, he survived a quadruple heart bypass, and then to the delight of his friends he married Angela and they enjoyed eight years of happy life together. In the 1940s he was a leading light in his family's show, which he left to become a pantomime performer in his own right. Fail and theyd have to enter as one person, aka, nominated and evicted as one. When men got home from their work at night they just wanted to sit and watch television and that television was soon in colour, a wonderful novelty. Greg and David were given a task as the seasons exciting new play-thing. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. Charm and personality are the most important things in show business and Jimmy Logan has plenty of both. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. Advance sales were disappointing but the play went down a storm with audiences and word quickly spread. 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. 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. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. 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]. His plans, however, fell foul of licensing authorities. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. There were five children and we all had our jobs to do," he said in a BBC interview. In 1955 the BBC Scotland light entertainment producer Eddie Fraser asked Logan to do the first Scottish children's television programme. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. 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. 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. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. 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. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours 1. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. His father decided it was not a good idea for his son to share the same surname because the audience might think they were not getting their money's worth, and so from 1943 James Short became 'Jim Logan'. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The theatre closed and Logan lost a lot of money. The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. Consequently in 1964 he bought the old Empress Theatre at St George's Cross in Glasgow, refurbished it and renamed it the Metropole, having paid 80,000 for it. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. Take a look at some of the famous twins of Hollywood, including Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and more. in his own words "my responsibilities to the building and my debts were destined to crush me for another decade.". The force said the alleged comments are wholly unacceptable, and referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. He toured the show extensively, dancing and working his way through 36 Lauder songs. Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. 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