Last a fortnight under the name of Logan (their shared middle name) and theyd get to enter the house as individuals. We did know the punchline, though, and stretched the sketches out to round off on that. In Scotland, and occasionally elsewhere in Britain, Jimmy Logan appeared in 35 pantomimes, usually as the dame, and when variety went into decline he switched with ease to straight acting. HELENSBURGH man Jimmy Logan OBE a world famous and colourful Scottish actor and entertainer served until his death in 2001 as the first honorary president of Helensburgh Heritage Trust and took a keen interest in the work of the Trust. Along with his twin brother Jey, Jimmy has caused nightmares for the WWE Tag Team division for years. Straight off the back of the success of Floodtide, Logan was chosen as the star of a new comedy series on the Scottish Home Service, It's All Yours, which began on 11 July 1949. 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. Opened on 26 May 1976. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. The play became the basis of a BBC Scotland television situation comedy. Logan and his Fife Past Eight co-star Jack Radcliffe were original shareholders in STV, each contributing 1,000. 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. "I wanted to witness this wonderful new medium in the land that was really pioneering its progress," he recalled. 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.". Scottish performer, producer, impresario and director, For other people named James or Jimmy Logan, see, Alhambra Glasgow by Graeme Smith, published 2011, The Theatre Royal: Entertaining a Nation by Graeme Smith, published 2008, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Logan&oldid=1084117228, Officers of the Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 April 2022, at 17:04. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed math and carpentry but never spelling. He was making more and more of a name for himself as a serious actor, and even wrote and performed in a one-man play on Sir Harry Lauder, one of his great heroes. 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. His first marriage of 21 years standing had already failed in 1969, and he believed that his financial problems played a large part in the failure of his second marriage. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. 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. 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 . Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. In fact many people still know me better for Lovely Biscuits than anything else. 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. He is also a dad. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. By 1950 ha had his own radio . 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. It was so successful another edition was broadcast on 24 May 1958. 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. A Place In The Sun host cringes at 'hard work' couple's low offer on property. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the outlook for the Metropole looked bleak. Earlier he had tried his hand at business by buying the Metropole, but it was not a success. Logan died of cancer in a hospital in Clydebank,[8] West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, nine days after his 73rd birthday. His big break came when he was offered a part in the feature film, Floodtide, alongside professional actors such as Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Elizabeth Sellars and Janet Brown. Typically he carried on acting until the end of the season before making the news public. He died on August 11, 1989 in Hermitage, Missouri, USA. 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. 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. Well done to Greg, though, sounds like hes made the most of his winnings in a business that can be quite risky. The cost of producing the shows was phenomenal but the standard was superb. Died. All rights reserved. Aware that he was going to have to reinvent himself to keep up with the times, they formed a company, Star Scripts Ltd, with the aim of adapting and writing comedy plays to put on at theatres round the country. A year later he was on the boards himself.[3]. Typically of Jimmy he continued to cherish "his" now distant twins. 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. He toured the show extensively, dancing and working his way through 36 Lauder songs. No word yet on whether Jim Springer knows anyone named Sandy. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. 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. In 1985 he married Pamela Donald and the following year twins were born. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. B B the C gull. On opening night it was revealed the $1 million prize was also getting the shakeup. 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. Andrew is best known for his role in the STV drama Broadchurch reportedly left his wife of 11 years after falling for his co-star Leila Farzad, 39. Unfortunately, remains of a baby have been found in woodland close to where Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. 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. Friday, 13 April, 2001, 09:56 GMT 10:56 UK, "Jimmy Logan was one of the great Scottish entertainers", ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Courteney Cox responds to Prince Harry's memoir claims he took magic mushrooms at her house. [1][6] Logan purchased the Empress Theatre for 80,000 in 1964. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. In 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. His 1998 autobiography It's a Funny Life was also a best-seller. But even then, life was not always kind to him. 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 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. They also starred in the long-running Five Past Eight show at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow. [16] A few months later they drafted in Logan as vice-chairman. Four days later he was meeting him in person. 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. In this day and age, if they wanted a public profile, they could easily do that with social media. At the age of 21 the film Floodtide - a gritty Clydeside drama with Gordon Jackson and Rona Anderson - made him a movie star. Getting . 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. The body of Kyle Sambrook and his beagle Bane were found in Glencoe on Saturday following a three-day search. He had been the first Scot to perform there in 16 years. 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. Was a major coup. He was acting a bit different," Glenn told Gretel in a weird 'Big Brother breaks the fourth wall scenario' in the diary room. The murder of a debauched gangbanger leads the detectives to a pair of twins, one of whom is not all that she appears to be. Worse was to follow. He teamed up with Stanley Baxter for a comedy routine which made them national names and coined a string of popular catchphrases. Face masks were introduced in schools because Boris Johnson was told it was 'not worth an argument' with Nicola Sturgeon. 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. Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan. STV used the advert for about a year, and showed it to potential advertisers as an example of the best type of advertising.[31]. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. He also did around 150 radio shows with his friend Stanley Baxter. Once again I had produced a catchphrase that seemed to capture the heart of a nation. Jimmy made his first acquaintance with the theatre, selling programmes, chocolates, and cigarettes at the age of six. 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