Jimmy's first radio appearance was with his family in a Logan Show broadcast from a Paisley cinema [date unknown]. 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. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. In 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . 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. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Do you have a sports website? After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. 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. People came from London to see what on earth this wonderful spectacle was about. But never forget Sausages is the boys."[10]. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop Bats: Right Throws: Right 5-9, 165lb (175cm, 74kg) . "[29], He wrote: "I was also recording a television programme that in my heart of hearts I thought wasn't right."[30]. "These comedy plays saved by career and exposed people to a Jimmy Logan they never knew existed. His connection with pantomime continued throughout his life,[3] most famously with the long-running pantomimes produced by Howard & Wyndham in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Aberdeen.[4][5]. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Typically he carried on acting until the end of the season before making the news public. Ultimately, both Jimmy and his daughter overcome the Loganand Americancurse. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. 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. Father ignored daughter's screams and texted her to 'stop' on night she died covered in maggots. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Advance sales were disappointing but the play went down a storm with audiences and word quickly spread. If they liked something no matter what it was they would say: "Aw lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits. [7] Filmed by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios, London, the film broke down a lot of barriers, employing an all-Scots cast and using real Scots accents. 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. 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. 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. He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. Data Provided By His aunt, Ella Logan, was a Broadway singer who starred in the original Finian's Rainbow, and his sister, Annabelle, is jazz singer Annie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins @miantwins The Twin's instagram and tiktok! 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 attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the outlook for the Metropole looked bleak. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. How dare they not share their entire lives with us like the Skyes, Tullys and Fitzys of the world. "I organise the Burns Night event with other Kyiv Lions Club members as part of our contribution of time to the club," Stuart tells me. 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. In 1998 he produced his best-selling autobiography, aptly entitled "It's a Funny Life". His brother John was the vocalist 'Buddy Logan' (19211992). Finally in 1973 the bank pegged his overdraft at 170,000 and so he had to close the theatre . 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. During that season he got a call from an Edinburgh advertising agency to appear in a television advert for Simmers Biscuits. . and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. During their preparations, the Logans and the Bangs send a CMS office worker a birthday cake and wreck her car. We've been dating twins for a few months now and we surprised our friends with them!! In 1990 his services to Scottish entertainment, and to charity, led to Logan being awarded an OBE. Greg was married to the mother of this three children former Elle magazine editor-in-chief (now Jones magazine editor) Justine Cullen, but the pair have since parted ways. Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. 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. Last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50, Floodtime: Film with a Clydebank Background, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001179/19530917/058/0011, http://wiki.scotlandonair.com/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Logan&oldid=64292. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Jimmy Logan died of cancer on 13 April 2001 in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, nine days after his 73rd birthday. 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. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. The place was in uproar and somewhere in the darker recesses of my mind there came a sort of 'Eureka'! He is also a dad. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. Unfortunately, remains of a baby have been found in woodland close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. He began the arrangements to produce videotapes to be made available to newly diagnosed cancer sufferers to console them, but he died on Good Friday, April 13, 2001 in the Health Care International Hospital (now the Golden Jubilee Hospital) in Clydebank. 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 . Lohan soared to stardom after her performances as twins Hallie Parker and Annie James, who were separated as babies, then met at summer camp more than a decade later. 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. Mehmet Sunna, who runs Sunna Salon Furniture in the city, has spoken of the moment found his hometown Pazarcik reduced to rubble. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. 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'. Loganberry Pie was produced by the voice of children's radio Kathleen Garscadden and broadcast on the BBC-tv network. There are 40+ professionals named "Jimmy Logan", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. Some people said she chose the name Logan after sticking a pin in a newspaper race sheet and coming up with a horse called 'Triumphant Logan' Logan, 19. Instead, nearly everyone involved or affected by the heist is rewarded. He was joined initially by two other young actors, Eddie Fraser and Primrose Milligan, and a couple of members of the Scottish Variety Orchestra. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins . The Fabulous Fifties was a nostalgic evocation of Scottish variety's last gasp. Frank Kinnis, 83, suffered fatal injuries after David Johnstone stamped on his head in woodland in Elgin. It was while performing at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in the summer of 2000 that he learnt that he had incurable cancer. Other theatrical events included The Entertainer (1984), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1989), Bill Bryden's The Ship, The Comedians (1991), On Golden Pond (1996) and Death of a Salesman at the Pitlochry Festival (1992). Michael Mosley shares the weight loss snack that 'won't add to your waistline'. 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. Their research sparked more than 170 separate studies focusing on medical and psychological characteristics of twins. One had a noticeable scar on their forehead, the other had a tattoo on their ankle, one was right-handed and the other left-handed. Born: 1945 in Glasgow. 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. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. It was all about a coalman cheating housewives by including dross and slate in their bags of highly prized coal! Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? [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. Based in Glasgow, he was one of five children of a famous family. 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. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. The squad eventually learns that the girl twin, Lindsay, was born a boy but a botched circumcision led to her parents making her a girl at the recommendation of the sex therapist the twins are currently seeing. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. Get it."[9]. 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"! It was no wonder. B B the C gull. SNP leadership contender Ash Regan announces 'bonkers' currency plan for independent Scotland. 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. 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. 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. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. We've been dating twins for a few months now and we surprised our friends with them!! Housemate Glenn revealed the secret, but a lot of the housemates already had an inkling. Logan began work as a child, selling programmes at his parents' shows. His last two performances were at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre respectively. He was in pantomime by 1944, playing the cat in Dick Whittington and His Cat, and soon became a comedy star with BBC Scotland. 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. Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. 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. 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. Upon hearing about the Jim twins uncanny resemblances, researchers at the University of Minnesota invited the pair to come to their facility for testing. 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. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. 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. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. . [28], In an effort to generate money through the summer months Logan submitted a number of plans to the council to diversify his business. 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. The TV viewer was then led into the auditorium as though they were a special guest before things settled for the beginning of the performance. He toured the show extensively, dancing and working his way through 36 Lauder songs. 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