Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. 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. 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. Being centred in the south or north of England, most of their references left me bewildered. Between 1979 and 1999, the team studied 137 pairs of twins, including the Jim twins, that had been reared apart from each other. 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 . THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. Milo, 14, Iggy, 12, and Scout, 6, appear to be based in Avalon with mum who late last year re-married her partner Hayden Guppy. Neil Wilson was found seriously injured on Nairn Road at around 1.15am on Tuesday morning. View the profiles of professionals named "Jimmy Logan" on LinkedIn. [2] He had four siblings including actress/singer Annie Ross. There were five children and we all had our jobs to do," he said in a BBC interview. 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. 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. Slavery plaque on Scots memorial could go after plan approved for its removal. [1] His aunt, from whom he took his stage surname, was Broadway performer Ella Logan. He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. People came from London to see what on earth this wonderful spectacle was about. Instead we tended to make things up as we went along. Logan played a major part in the establishment of a Scottish committee of the British Actors' Equity Association. 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. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Most of the time I find I am laughing with him and not at him and the comedian who can evoke that kind of laughter is no ordinary clown. Amateur Scots football captain in intensive care after 'sudden and severe accident'. Data Provided By He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. His other screen roles included parts in two Carry On films. Loganberry Pie was produced by the voice of children's radio Kathleen Garscadden and broadcast on the BBC-tv network. Consequently at the age of 49 he now also lost his home and all that he owned. Titford heard Kaylea screaming shortly before she died but instead of checking if she was unwell, he texted her to stop. 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]. 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. Family of missing Scots man 'worried sick' and 'desperate for papa to come home'. At the age of 20 he had married a dancer, Grace Pagan. Angela, 65, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, died after a 15-month battle against cancer. of Friday after losing his battle with cancer of the oesophagus. 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 1991, he had a supporting role in the Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren which was partly filmed in Scotland. 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). He also appeared on the first night of Scottish Television in 1956. Logan published his autobiography, It's a Funny Life, in 1998.[3]. One woman ventured out to see what outlets would offer her freebies for her special day. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. However, he was left facing financial ruin after he bought Glasgow's Metropol Theatre. This included plans for restaurants and cocktail bars in a new building next to the hotel. 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. 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. Jimmy toured the world and became a highly paid entertainer with a lifestyle to match. Latterly he performed regularly at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, one summer revelling in performing three very different plays on successive nights. How do we create a person's profile? He was a stocky, short man who stood at only 5-foot-4-inches. During this event he made his last appearance on stage. Produced by ITP for ATV, it was broadcast on Sunday 29 July 1956 (20:0021:00)in England only. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Remember that time Big Brother puttwins in the house, and then pretended they were one person, and then one of them went on to win the whole season? He knew that the theatre itself would probably lose money, but he believed that by building a complex of bars and restaurants with entertainment on the plot next door, he could subsidise the losses of the theatre. When they weren't "in play" they were holed up in the isolation room playing playstation and watching DVDs (remember those.). Logan married Angela, a divorced mother of six who is now 55, in 1993. He was also helped by sympathetic neighbours, especially Angela Mackenzie who lived in the east wing of the house she later became his driver and dresser during his continuing career. During the 1960s Logan did five coast-to-coast tours of Canada and America, playing to packed houses of expatriate Scots. 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. I never knew he existed either. 500k likes and we'll go on a double date with the twins!The Mian Twins . In 1968 he got the chance to do pantomime at the London Palladium, performing in Robinson Crusoe, with Englebert Humperdinck in the lead role and Logan playing his brother. "These comedy plays saved by career and exposed people to a Jimmy Logan they never knew existed. 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. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 01:50. His father was a Rangers fan though. . 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. So in one episode I suddenly said: "You can like eggs, you can like ham, but sausages is the boys." The ring, however, paints a very different picture. When men got home from their work at night they just wanted to sit and watch television and that television was soon in colour, a wonderful novelty. At the bingo the women could sit and natter with their pals and maybe win a small fortune too. He had a quadruple heart bypass operation. Upon hearing about the Jim twins uncanny resemblances, researchers at the University of Minnesota invited the pair to come to their facility for testing. Jimmy published his autobiography in 1998. His first acting role was in the film Floodtide (1949),[7] a drama set on Clydeside. Get it."[9]. According to Woman's Day, as of last year Greg was worth $10 million. Born: March 24, 1965 Full Name: James Thomas Logan View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen. Emmerdale's Amy Nuttall 'discovered Andrew Buchan's affair from racy lingerie purchase'. 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. I guess there are limits to the kind of characters I can make people believe in. THE widow of Scottish showbiz legend Jimmy Logan died yesterday. 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. In 1998 he produced his best-selling autobiography, aptly entitled "It's a Funny Life". Apparently the Logan twins have put their life-in-the-limelight days behind them, and are living very under the radar lives. Scotland Today coverage of the funeral of Jimmy Logan. Jimmy set up the Jimmy Logan for Cancer Trust to deal with the 30,000 raised by the occasion. In 1993 came a follow-up at the festival. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. 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. 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. 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. He took the show onto England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. in his own words "my responsibilities to the building and my debts were destined to crush me for another decade.". He also owns hotels and restaurants. They were twins, separated at birth, who had grown up not 45 miles from each other, and ended up leading almost identical lives. 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. Samantha Gilbert tragically lost her life, leaving her loved ones completely devastated. By The Newsroom 17th Aug 2010, 1:00am Angela Logan provided stalwart support for one of Scotland's finest comedians, Jimmy. Just like "Sausages is the boys", people were saying "Lovely Biscuits" in response to just about anything. 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. Jimmy's first radio appearance was with his family in a Logan Show broadcast from a Paisley cinema [date unknown]. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and received an OBE from the Queen in 1996. James Logan was an actor, known for Mary Poppins (1964), You Are There (1953) and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). He died, aged 73, in hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, during the early hours Then, read about the Hilton sisters, conjoined twins who made a life for themselves as part of a freak show. A year later he was on the boards himself.[3]. appeared in two Carry On films in 1972 and 1973. 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