The Fabulous Fifties was a nostalgic evocation of Scottish variety's last gasp. It was quite a disappointment when the pantomime was able to recommence. And he is also the late Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan's stepson. 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. He went on to marry a woman named Linda. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the outlook for the Metropole looked bleak. Links to more Scotland stories are at the foot of the page. [23] It was broadcast from 21 November 1959 to 23 April 1960. 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. Day Two in the house was basically a detail by detail unpacking of what was different about each twin. How do we create a person's profile? He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. He thought he was a well enough known name to take a touring show round Scotland, but he ended up playing to half-empty theatres. It was released to cinemas in May 1949 and was a success. Rank. . Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. 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. Crawford believed the quality that had taken Logan to the top was his charm: I must admit that I have seen consistently funnier comedians on the Scottish stage than Jimmy not many, but a few. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. Based in Glasgow, he was one of five children of a famous family. Aldi launches tasty Easter treat 2 cheaper than high street equivalent. Destined for a life in showbusiness, James Short left school at the age of 14 without any academic qualifications. The 32-piece orchestra was conducted by the great Geraldo, and the dancers' hair and clothes were all styled and designed to suit their own individual personality. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. 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. But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. 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). He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. Initially a hard-working team with under-the-radar buzz . When she had gone to a judge to get her adoption paperwork finalized, she had overheard someone mention that the other baby had also been named James. He was initiated into the Lodge Anima No.1223 on 17th October 1948. The trappings of success followed rapidly, and while in his twenties he was living in a wing of Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, had his own Rolls-Royce with personalised number plate, and flew his own plane. . He was a stocky, short man who stood at only 5-foot-4-inches. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies . The following Spring he presented some editions of the children's TV show All Your Own when it came from Glasgow. Jimmy Logan. The bulk of what they discovered centered around the effect environment has on child-rearing and the way genetics factor in as a comparison. Love Island fans buzz as Olivia is 'exposed' and storms off after furious Jessie row. 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. 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'. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Post continues after video. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop, More Jimmy Logan Pages at Baseball Reference, Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 1:07PM. 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. 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. 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'. In 1994 Glasgow Caledonian University conferred an honorary degree on him and he became a Doctor of Letters. [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. in his own words "my responsibilities to the building and my debts were destined to crush me for another decade.". He had a quadruple heart bypass operation. By the mid-1940s he was featuring in his parents' show, Ma and Pa Logan, at Glasgow's Metropole, and at 19 was principal comedian at the Metropole. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. He also appeared on the first night of Scottish Television in 1956. The Jimmy Logan Theatre Hour was subsequently born, opening with Logan sitting behind his desk welciming the TV audience on their visit to the theatre. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. 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. The nature of their business meant their young family stayed at a number of houses in a number of different cities. Logan's stage act included character-based sketches, and these transferred well to the British television of the 1950s. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. 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. 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. 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"! Positions: Died. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. Joe Gordon and Sally Logan in the Harleqin Rooms in the Mount Royal Hotel, Edinburgh Scottish entertainer Joe Gordon, who has died in Ayr at the age of 85, enjoyed a showbusiness career spanning . It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. 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. His vision was to run American-style showbars that had never been seen in Glasgow before. He left school at 14 and became assistant manager of Paisley's Victory Theatre. Remember that time Big Brother puttwins in the house, and then pretended they were one person, and then one of them went on to win the whole season? 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. 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. But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. Jimmy Uso: Bio. Andrew Linton's wife Alison described him as a "happy family man" as she said his disappearance is extremely out of character, adding that his granddaughter Myla needs her papa home. 1. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Max apparently gets into another altercation with the Logan brothers later: We don't see the fight, but do see Max's bruised, bandaged face after the fact. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. Even as a young man, he campaigned at Equity meetings for the rights of chorus girls and smaller acts. Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. 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. All rights reserved. The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. [1] [6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. A pair of identical twins (not the Jim Twins). During that season he got a call from an Edinburgh advertising agency to appear in a television advert for Simmers Biscuits. They moved into a house together in London and Logan spent his time between the capital and Glasgow. Micheal shared some of the benefits of eating one type of food, including improved brain health. which is now a burnt down creepy ghost hangout. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! 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. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. His Scots accent, though broad, was not indecipherable to English viewers, although he was happy to lay the doric on with a trowel much later in his career as Rab C Nesbitt's father-in-law in the successful comedy TV series of the 1990s. Listening as a young man, the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was struck by how Logan made people laugh using a strong Glasgow accent: I have been brought up, like lots of people of my generation, listening to BBC Radio and early television. 1973 was the subject of This Is Your Life. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. [], 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. It was formed at a meeting in Edinburgh in around September 1953 when Alex McCrindle, the first Scottish organiser, was formally introduced. A labour of love which he described as possibly his "proudest achievement". 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. Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. [21] The presenter was Tommy Trinder. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . . One woman ventured out to see what outlets would offer her freebies for her special day. Logan made his pantomime debut in 1952 when he was signed up by Howard & Wyndham to star in Robinson Crusoe at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. James Allan Short was born in the family home at 3 Inglis Street, Dennistoun, Glasgow on 4 April 1928, the middle child in a series of five.[1]. 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. 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. 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. [1] His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. 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. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. 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.". Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. 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. Jimmy's first radio appearance was with his family in a Logan Show broadcast from a Paisley cinema [date unknown]. Logan and his Fife Past Eight co-star Jack Radcliffe were original shareholders in STV, each contributing 1,000. He is also a dad. We havent seen or heard anything from Greg and David in years. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. STV used the advert for about a year, and showed it to potential advertisers as an example of the best type of advertising.[31]. Upon hearing about the Jim twins uncanny resemblances, researchers at the University of Minnesota invited the pair to come to their facility for testing. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. The bank would lend him no more money and the Metropole closed in 1973 with Logan in debt to the tune of 170,000. His family, in the 1930s and 1940s, toured the small music halls of Scotland and Northern Ireland and ran seasons at the Metropole, Glasgow and in the Theatre, Paisley, where Logan became house manager for the family. 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. The former Celtic skipper was proud of his players as they battled for 45 minutes with ten men, only to lose in the 90th minute. After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. For the first time on stage, it made people laugh at the Catholic/Protestant divide that was predominant in parts of Scotland. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. In 1968 he got the chance to do pantomime at the London Palladium, performing in Robinson Crusoe, with Englebert Humperdinck in the lead role and Logan playing his brother. 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. He took on a considerable amount of responsibility at a young age: as well as playing the accordion and acting as the comedian's 'feed' in sketches, he would put the show on, pay the performers, and make sure nothing went wrong. Ms Donald and Logan were married for three years, but after they split fought a bitter custody battle over their twin children, Robert and Annabelle. The best part, was when Greg spent the entire eviction with a lollipop in his mouth. 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. Facebook gives people the power to. 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. Something went wrong, please try again later. [8] As a result, he became a household name in Scotland, but a big slump in the British film industry meant he received no further film offers at the time. After the War, when the family got together again for a series of 18-week summer seasons at the Metropole Theatre, Glasgow, his father came up with the idea of them appearing together as "The Logan Family". In its ten months at the Metropole in 1971 it was a great success and saved the theatre from immediate closure. Lisa Wiltse/Getty ImagesA pair of identical twins (not the Jim Twins). Edinburgh loved him.[12]. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. There are 40+ professionals named "Jimmy Logan", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. were arrested. Jimmy Logan died of cancer on 13 April 2001 in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, nine days after his 73rd birthday. His brother John was the vocalist 'Buddy Logan' (19211992). 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. Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop Bats: Right Throws: Right 5-9, 165lb (175cm, 74kg) . [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. 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