[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. "It goes on all night. Logan died of cancer in a hospital in Clydebank,[8] West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, nine days after his 73rd birthday. Find out more. It was so well liked I became known as Jimmy 'Lovely Biscuits' Logan. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. The response was phenomenal, and before we knew where we were it had really taken on "You can build your skyscrapers, you can build your palashes, you can take vast areas of the desert and ush oil and water. An accomplished stand-up and sketch comedian, he favoured chat, insight and observation over gags. 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. Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. His father passed away in early 1982 when Logan was in pantomime with Terry Scott at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh. Many thanks to him. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Jim Lewis recently divorced his Betty and remarried a woman named Sandy, with his newfound twin brother as his best man. Edinburgh loved him.[12]. In this day and age, if they wanted a public profile, they could easily do that with social media. Born: 1945 in Glasgow. Fail and theyd have to enter as one person, aka, nominated and evicted as one. Jimmy was born into a Glasgow theatrical family in 1928. It was released to cinemas in May 1949 and was a success. 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. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Logan Lucky is a rare thing: a heist film where no one gets hurt. View the profiles of people named Jimmy Logan. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. [32] 1976 Lauder at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Four days later he was meeting him in person. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. However, typically, Jimmy Logan bounced back. 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. [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. There were also plaudits for his television performances. . So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." [16] A few months later they drafted in Logan as vice-chairman. We havent seen or heard anything from Greg and David in years. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. . The children then moved back to Glasgow to live with their parents in Ibrox, with Logan moving to the local school, Bellahouston Academy. The brass plate on the Melville Monument dedicated to Henry Dundas claims he used his influence to delay the abolition of slavery. "My father and mother were in showbusiness. No recording of this show is known to exist. The twins, who are now 15, live in Inverness with their mother, Pamela Donald, whom Logan married in 1985, and natural father. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. 'Schizophrenic's' brutal slaying of Scots dog walker 'could not have been predicted'. 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. Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. The venue was forced to close in the early 1970s because of money problems, leaving Jimmy to start over again. This included plans for restaurants and cocktail bars in a new building next to the hotel. 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. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. We encourage you to . Eddie Fraser was the producer. Positions: But for many, Jimmy will be best remembered as a panto star. 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. Most families were short of money so if the wife who had been bored to tears in the house all day wanted to go out at night, she would invariably go to the bingo, a welcome replacement for the old-fashioned quiz nights. He attended the Lodges 75th year celebrations in 1995 along with Edward Ashley Past Master, long-time Manager at the Kings Theatre.[34]. His vision was to run American-style showbars that had never been seen in Glasgow before. "When I was six or seven I was selling programmes, chocolates, cigarettes - but I wanted to get on the stage.". He also became well known on the BBC's Scottish Home Service radio show It's All Yours. Buddy would be singing a nice melody and I would be screaming in the background: "Oh, dear God, take him away."[5]. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. Later on in the series, a special eviction was held where one twin was evicted based on the votes of the other housemates and the remaining twin was allowed to continue on as a normal housemate. The bulk of what they discovered centered around the effect environment has on child-rearing and the way genetics factor in as a comparison. In 1985 he married Pamela Donald and the following year twins were born. Someone crashes a car through a convenience store window. If they liked something no matter what it was they would say: "Aw lovely biscuits, lovely biscuits. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. She walked out on him. 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. Heres a snippet. 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. After the death of her 73-year-old husband in 2001 from throat cancer, she helped start the Jimmy Logan Memorial Cancer Trust. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. 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. 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. Check out these conjoined twins that survived being separated at the head, the worlds most difficult surgery. His Scottish Teddy Boy act which had gone down well on Five Past Eight proved to be a great success with an English audience "and I can only say there were no bad nights".[15]. Two new writers, Andrew McIntyre and Jack McLeod, were also hired came up with one of Logan's catchphrases "sausages is the boys": They reckoned it would be perfect for one of my characters, the gormless youth Sammy Dreep, a kind of wee Glaswegian you could imagine wearing a bunnet and thick glasses, who always spat out phlegm when he was talking. At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. My father told me: "Son, get out of that rubbish!" Upon hearing about the Jim twins uncanny resemblances, researchers at the University of Minnesota invited the pair to come to their facility for testing. 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. 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. They also starred in the long-running Five Past Eight show at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow. Getting . His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. James Logan was an actor, known for Mary Poppins (1964), You Are There (1953) and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. Logan ad-libbed in front of the curtain to the 2,000-strong audience for a while and then asked the orchestra leader to find the theatre carpenter, who had worked there all his life and was about to retire. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. His one-man musical based on the life of Scottish entertainer Sir Harry Lauder was called Lauder (1976). 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. Ex-chief constable of Police Scotland 'said bulk of rape complaints were regretful sex'. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. People came from London to see what on earth this wonderful spectacle was about. A career spanning more than six decades made him a household name as an actor, musician, singer, comedian and theatrical entrepreneur. One reviewer wrote that "Logan made a particularly deep impression with British viewers on his television debut". Produced by ITP for ATV, it was broadcast on Sunday 29 July 1956 (20:0021:00)in England only. 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. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. 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! Jimmy was distraught, but with typical courage bounced back, helped by his sister, the famous jazz singer, Annie Ross, who flew over from the USA to be with him for several months. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. 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. . An extensive archive of his personal papers and performance ephemera is now held by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland archives. Logan was chairman of the board of directors, his father was managing director, and his mother and wife Grace the remaining directors. 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. In 1998 he appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt as the father-in-law of Rab's son Gash. 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. Worse was to follow. 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