Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Warner Bros. TV. 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". 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. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. Emmerdale's Amy Nuttall 'discovered Andrew Buchan's affair from racy lingerie purchase'. (Jimmy) Logan. But even then, life was not always kind to him. People came from London to see what on earth this wonderful spectacle was about. 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. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. Our secret was never down to good scripts because we didn't have any scripts. No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. After a prologue that features the twin fetishes of John Denver nostalgia and pickup-truck repair, the action gets set in motion when Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), a beefy divorced dad who lives . He appeared in Scotland and England in Harvey, The Entertainer, Death of a Salesman, Comedians, Uncle Vanya and many other stage plays. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. His father was a Rangers fan though. Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. "I don't want any of this play thing," Milroy told him. During the Second World War his parents went off round Britain entertaining the troops with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). 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. Opened on 26 May 1976. By the end of the 1950s, and at the peak of his profession in Scotland, Logan wanted to make a name for himself beyond Scotland's borders. We've been dating twins for a few months now and we surprised our friends with them!! [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. [3], Educated at Gourock High School, Inverclyde, and latterly Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow, Logan left school at the age of 14. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Fail and theyd have to enter as one person, aka, nominated and evicted as one. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. 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. 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. "These comedy plays saved by career and exposed people to a Jimmy Logan they never knew existed. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. James Jim Springer, of Piqua Ohio, was adopted in 1940 just three weeks after he was born. Duncan Macrae was elected chairman of the new committee, with two vice-chairmen: Lennox Milne, Edinburgh, and Roddy MacMillan, Glasgow. 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'. Play. Edinburgh loved him.[12]. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours We did all sorts of things. He was named James by his adoptive parents and had a dog named Toy. One was a plumber, the other sold beer as a sales rep. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. "[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 published his autobiography in 1998. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. 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. It had been a big hit in Belfast where it had run at the Ulster Theatre since September 1960, and Logan thought that it might transfer well to Scotland, so in April 1961 he took it on tour for two weeks at His Majesty's, Aberdeen, and the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, with himself in the starring role his first stage part in a play. Good on them (but where are you please). 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. Face masks were introduced in schools because Boris Johnson was told it was 'not worth an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 1950 The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. Almsot 400,000 people came to the Alhambra during that 24-week season, almost ten per cent of the Scottish population. Died. His first acting role was in the film Floodtide (1949),[7] a drama set on Clydeside. In turn, Logan influenced others: Billy Connolly decided to become an entertainer after seeing him in pantomime. 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 quietly intelligent performer who was ahead of his time. Logan was a keen supporter of the Lodge, held office and participated in degree work. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. 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. The cost of producing the shows was phenomenal but the standard was superb. He attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. Scots woman, 35, dies in sleep as heartbroken family hail 'amazing' little sister. Heres a snippet. The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. In 1994 he was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Glasgow Caledonian University, and then in 1996 he was awarded the OBE. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. 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. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. SNP leadership contender Ash Regan announces 'bonkers' currency plan for independent Scotland. Ultimately, both Jimmy and his daughter overcome the Loganand Americancurse. 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! Advance sales were disappointing but the play went down a storm with audiences and word quickly spread. During this event he made his last appearance on stage. Or write about sports? Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. 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. In 1993 he received the Gulliver Award for excellence in the theatre. During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. 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. 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. His sister Heather married a Catholic and became one herself. He leaves two children, 15-year-old twins Robert and Annabel. We did know the punchline, though, and stretched the sketches out to round off on that. Because how fun are identical twins. Sherilyn Fenn As Sasha & Anna. In 1993 came a follow-up at the festival. Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. Died: 26 July, 2010, in Helensburgh, aged 65. Someone crashes a car through a convenience store window. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. 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'. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. Although he was principally known as a comedian and entertainer in his earlier days, he nevertheless showed his abilities as a dramatic actor in his first film "Floodtide" at the age of 21. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. In 1998 he appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt as the father-in-law of Rab's son Gash. 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. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. In his later years he won praise for his portrayal of Sir Harry Lauder in his one-man show. In 1988 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama made him a Fellow and, as a consequence, in his words "in a way I became respectable"! Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. [23] It was broadcast from 21 November 1959 to 23 April 1960. 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! . Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. His involvement ceased after about six years when it was decided that people should be elected rather than appointed. Eddie Fraser was the producer. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? 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. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. 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. His big house in Dowanhill, Glasgow had gone in the divorce from Grace - slept on the settee in the front room his father's one-bedroom flat in Ibrox for two years. 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. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Do you have a sports website? "Those films paid poorly," he wrote, "but I was so desperate I needed the money. 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. 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. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. A review in The Scotsman stated that Logan "often comes perilously near to stealing the picture". [32] 1976 Lauder at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. And led to the breakdown of his marriage to this second wife Gina a few years later. Jimmy Logan (James Short), entertainer, born April 4 1927; died April 13 2001, Scots comedian whose warmth and sincerity shone through his performances on stage and screen, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. He was a stocky, short man who stood at only 5-foot-4-inches. Positions: His first marriage of 21 years standing had already failed in 1969, and he believed that his financial problems played a large part in the failure of his second marriage. 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. On 16 August 1957 he appeared in the first television broadcast from the BBC's new Springfield Road studio, Glasgow, On View, in a sketch with Fay Lenore. Micheal shared some of the benefits of eating one type of food, including improved brain health. In 1985 he married Pamela Donald and the following year twins were born. Scott Brown has no Fleetwood Town red card complaints after brave Burnley FA Cup showing in FA Cup. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. After getting off to a rocky start, the two girls uncover some unsettling similarities and finally realize they're 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. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. 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). "I tried my best to master the part," he recalled, "but it just didn't work. . He left school at 14 with no qualifications, but already certain that his future lay in the world of entertainment. Do you have a blog? 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). 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. 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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. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! 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 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. Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop Bats: Right Throws: Right 5-9, 165lb (175cm, 74kg) . 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