Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. He refurbished it, reopening it as the New Metropole. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. People came from London to see what on earth this wonderful spectacle was about. Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago. Opened on 26 May 1976. Logan did 14 comedy plays with Cree, each of them made for family laughter. In turn, Logan influenced others: Billy Connolly decided to become an entertainer after seeing him in pantomime. As a young man he modelled himself on the Scottish matinee idol and song and dance star of the 1930s and 40s Jack Buchanan, who had made a good living playing languid Englishmen. Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop Bats: Right Throws: Right 5-9, 165lb (175cm, 74kg) . . In 1990 his services to Scottish entertainment, and to charity, led to Logan being awarded an OBE. 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. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. Later, he and Linda divorced, and he married a woman named Betty. One was a plumber, the other sold beer as a sales rep. By 1950 ha had his own radio . Get it."[9]. He left school at 14 and became assistant manager of Paisley's Victory Theatre. There are 40+ professionals named "Jimmy Logan", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. I came home one day, Lewis recounted, and had this message to call Jim Springer., He did, and before he could help himself, blurted out an almost comedic: Are you my brother?. James Allan Short, OBE, FRSAMD (1928-2001), known professionally as Jimmy Logan, 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. They swapped on Big Brother's demand, regularly changing places in the diary room or the toilet, while giving the other a quick download of conversations and updates they needed to absorb. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. After the death of her 73-year-old husband . As always you can unsubscribe at any time. They ended up walking away with $836,000 which was the amount left over after the various subtractions along the way. He then married Angela on 30 July 1993. [4], We took a lot of chances in those family shows. James Jim Lewis, of Lima Ohio, was adopted in 1940 just three weeks after he was born. In fact, the theme of the series was single, sexy, and competitive(LOL) and instead of asking for video-taped auditions, the producers toured the country looking for the sexiest singles in all the land. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. After 16 weeks the shows were stopped. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. 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. Greg went on to win the whole damn thing, and they were still (technically) being treated as one, so got to share in the prize equally. 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'. But we also had great writers like Stan Mars, who would take our ideas and turn them into great comedy. His plans, however, fell foul of licensing authorities. He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. Check out these conjoined twins that survived being separated at the head, the worlds most difficult surgery. My father told me: "Son, get out of that rubbish!" Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Face masks were introduced in schools because Boris Johnson was told it was 'not worth an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon. 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. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. As he shot more into the limelight, his parents became 'Ma and Pa Logan', and his schoolboy character's catchphrase, "It's smashin' Maw", was used as the title for the show. 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. Logan even set up a mobile ticket office that went round the schemes. 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. View Jimmy Logan results in Texas (TX) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins @miantwins The Twin's instagram and tiktok! He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. Here are nine actors who played two parts on the show. 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 starred in Saturday Showtime, written by Eric Sykes, for ITV in 1956, and from 1957 to 1961 in BBC TV's Jimmy Logan Show - much of it written by himself. He attended Gourock Primary School and then Gourock High School. and purchased a second-hand twin-engined Miles Gemini plane for 2,000 which he flew himself. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. 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. 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). 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. We encourage you to . A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. 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. He attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. The best part, was when Greg spent the entire eviction with a lollipop in his mouth. He leased a wing of Culzean Castle that had just been restored, with 16 rooms and four bathrooms, playing around 2,000 a year. 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. They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. [7] Logan collected Lauder memorabilia, which is now housed in the Scottish Theatre Archive at the University of Glasgow. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. He was a performer who loved an audience - and was equally loved by those who came to enjoy his shows. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. Despite having been declared by the press as one of the country's best young comics, Logan was still little known outside of Glasgow. Died. 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. The Fabulous Fifties was a nostalgic evocation of Scottish variety's last gasp. He was the kind of boy who would say "Aw yeah, Mishta Logan, don't worry about it Mishta Logan, no problem Mishta Logan." appeared in two Carry On films in 1972 and 1973. 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. Jimmy was delighted as he believed them to be his first children and three years later the family moved to part of 152 East Clyde Street in Helensburgh (pictured left). Enjoy this article on thw Jim Twins? 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. 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. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. It was so successful another edition was broadcast on 24 May 1958. He is also a dad. Well done to Greg, though, sounds like hes made the most of his winnings in a business that can be quite risky. When a new director, Dickie Hurran took over. 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. 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. 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. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. "Those films paid poorly," he wrote, "but I was so desperate I needed the money. Love Island fans buzz as Olivia is 'exposed' and storms off after furious Jessie row. No recording of this show is known to exist. As a result, for the next two years he slept on the settee in his father's one-bedroom flat in Ibrox, and hung his clothes on the back of the upright piano. In 2012, his brother alluded in an interview that his twin was running a Gold Coast based plumbing company that dealt with mining contracts. Jimmy Logan was known as one of the great Scottish entertainers. The seasonal chocolate bar has already received glowing online reviews from customers, with many more wanting to try it. In 1998 he appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt as the father-in-law of Rab's son Gash. "[29], He wrote: "I was also recording a television programme that in my heart of hearts I thought wasn't right."[30]. Initially a hard-working team with under-the-radar buzz . But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. 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.". When they weren't "in play" they were holed up in the isolation room playing playstation and watching DVDs (remember those.). 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. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Even as a young man, he campaigned at Equity meetings for the rights of chorus girls and smaller acts. This surprised many as most people believed Logan to be a die-hard Rangers fan. He then took it to Glasgow and ended up playing to more people that year than Five Past Eight, which Logan had finished with the previous year. The place was in uproar and somewhere in the darker recesses of my mind there came a sort of 'Eureka'! We did know the punchline, though, and stretched the sketches out to round off on that. 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