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'. Logan's stage act included character-based sketches, and these transferred well to the British television of the 1950s. The latest incarnation of The Jimmy Logan Show, a variety show with songs, laughter and special guests, was a lot more successful than his previous series of nearly a decade earlier. Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. While reminiscing on this nugget of history we realised something. Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. But he returned to the stage as an actor and won critical acclaim in plays such as Death of a Salesman and The Entertainer. James Allan Short, OBE, FRSAMD (4 April 1928 13 April 2001), known professionally as Jimmy Logan, was a Scottish performer, theatrical producer, impresario and director. 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. 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.". 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. 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. They formed a successful show business partnership and it was natural that Jimmy would follow in their footsteps. Despite only being 21 years old he had packed a wealth of theatrical experience more than many veterans twice his age and had developed into a distinguished 'all-rounder', as a comedian, singer, and actor of both straight and character parts. Amazon Fire TV Stick warning as tech giant issues serious alert to users. Get it."[9]. 'Schizophrenic's' brutal slaying of Scots dog walker 'could not have been predicted'. But even then, life was not always kind to him. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. We present them here for purely educational purposes. 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). 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. However planning permission was refused for this and over the years the Metropole ran at a loss. 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. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. . 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 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. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. Jimmy Logan's connections with Helensburgh go back even to the time before he was born, as it was in Helensburgh that his parents, Jack Short and May Dalziel, met each other. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. All rights reserved. Destined for a life in showbusiness, James Short left school at the age of 14 without any academic qualifications. He was named James by his adoptive parents, and had a dog named Toy. It was as dramatic as that.[11]. When that marriage was dissolved in 1969 he married a world famous fashion designer Gina Fratini; this marriage lasted eight years. 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. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. 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. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. Due to the fact they're identical twins, but one was made . Pam Donald, 50, wed Inverness surgeon David MacIntyre, 55, at a quiet ceremony last week at Castle Stuart, Inverness-shire. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. 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. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. Post continues after video. The brass plate on the Melville Monument dedicated to Henry Dundas claims he used his influence to delay the abolition of slavery. 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. 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. Logan wrote that the planning authorities in Glasgow were "consistently obstructive and unhelpful". 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 . His first acting role was in the film Floodtide (1949),[7] a drama set on Clydeside. 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'. The twins, who are now 15, live in Inverness with their mother, Pamela Donald, whom Logan married in 1985, and natural father. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." 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". Jimmy Logan died of cancer on 13 April 2001 in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, nine days after his 73rd birthday. 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]. Upon hearing about the Jim twins uncanny resemblances, researchers at the University of Minnesota invited the pair to come to their facility for testing. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. We did know the punchline, though, and stretched the sketches out to round off on that. Logan suggested taking the plays he had done at the Metropole and tailoring them for television. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. When Logan was working at the London Palladium in pantomime he got a writer to come up with a play for the double act Francie and Josie, played by Rikki Fulton and Jack Milroy. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". 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. Eddie Fraser was the producer. 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. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. It was so successful another edition was broadcast on 24 May 1958. 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. However this marriage too broke up when Pamela walked out, taking the twins who Jimmy adored. 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. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. 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. He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. Even as a young man, he campaigned at Equity meetings for the rights of chorus girls and smaller acts. 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. The bulk of what they discovered centered around the effect environment has on child-rearing and the way genetics factor in as a comparison. But that's all we got. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. On Wednesday's instalment of the Channel 4 property show, Julie and Peter enlisted Lee's help to find their dream holiday home in South West France. Initially a hard-working team with under-the-radar buzz . View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. In 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Logan even set up a mobile ticket office that went round the schemes. 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. The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. Died: 26 July, 2010, in Helensburgh, aged 65. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. The commercial became hugely successful when it went out on STV. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. On 1 February 1975 he was a guest on the Parkinson programme, talking about his career and the influence of Sir Harry Lauder, and was then joined by his sister Annie Ross. "I don't want any of this play thing," Milroy told him. Greg used his half of the winnings wisely, becoming a pub owner in Newcastle. One of the last events to be staged there was the first Scottish production of the rock musical Hair. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. He was joined initially by two other young actors, Eddie Fraser and Primrose Milligan, and a couple of members of the Scottish Variety Orchestra. Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop. She walked out on him. An accomplished stand-up and sketch comedian, he favoured chat, insight and observation over gags. [1] His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. Duncan Macrae was elected chairman of the new committee, with two vice-chairmen: Lennox Milne, Edinburgh, and Roddy MacMillan, Glasgow. Jimmy Logan. He had a son named James Alan Lewis, worked as a security guard, drove a Chevrolet, and was an avid chain smoker. During the subsequent divorce Pamela insisted on DNA tests which eventually revealed that Jimmy was not the biological father of the twins. They would say: "Beeby the Seagull, do you understand? They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. It starred two young actors, Tom Conti and Hannah Gordon. At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. When a new director, Dickie Hurran took over. The place was in uproar and somewhere in the darker recesses of my mind there came a sort of 'Eureka'! He left school at 14 with no qualifications, but already certain that his future lay in the world of entertainment. The funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church in Helensburgh on Friday. [18], From January to April 1955 he was given his own weekly radio series on the Scottish Home Service, The Jimmy Logan Show, which featured a resident cast of Aileen Wilson, Marillyn Gray, and Peter Croft, along with the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra.[19]. [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. "These comedy plays saved by career and exposed people to a Jimmy Logan they never knew existed. No recording of this show is known to exist. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. 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. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. There were so many sketches you didn't have time to mess about on such trivial things as what was going to be in them. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. WATCH/LISTEN: ON THIS STORY: BBC Scotland's Forbes McFall reports "Jimmy Logan . No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. His memoir, It's a Funny Life, was published in 1998. 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. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. We took a lot of chances, and just made it up was we went along. 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