Jimmy Logan

Jimmy Logan was born on Apr 04, 1928 in UK. Jimmy Logan's big-screen debut came with Floodtide directed by Frederick Wilson in 1949, strarring Tim Brogan. Jimmy Logan is known for Lucia directed by Don Boyd, Amanda Boyd stars as Kate Ashton 'Lucia' and John Daszak as Norman 'Normanno'. The upcoming new movie Jimmy Logan plays is Lucia which will be released on Oct 01, 1999.

The legendary Scottish entertainer came from a family of entertainers. He started by selling programmes then moved onto operating theatre lights at the age of 8 and performing a cowboy act at 10. He was an assistant manager at 15, tackled juvenile leads and landed his own show at the Metropole Theatre Glasgow at 19. By 1950 ha had his own radio show - 'It's All Yours; - then broke into television in England with his own sketch series for ATV Television who broadcast them under the 'Saturday Showtime banner. Entitled 'Jimmy Logan' they were written for him by Eric Sykes. He practically held court at The Alhambta Theatre in Glasgow appearing in 6 monthly runs of the revue 'Five Past Eight' and 4 month runs of Pantomime productions. In 1957 he played to over 320,000 in 21 weeks and in the same year appeared before the Queen in the Royal Command Performance at the London Palladium.