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Profile of George Logan
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George Logan |
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7th July 1950 |
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Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
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Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were the stage names of George Logan and Patrick Fyffe respectively. The characters of Hinge and Bracket were elderly, intellectual, female musicians; in these personas the male Logan and Fyffe played and sang song to comic effect. They made numerous appearances on television and radio.
Hinge and Bracket made their first appearance in 1974 at the Edinburgh International Festival. They toured their double act for years, before appearing on the radio. Their first radio series, The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket ran on BBC Radio 4 for three series from 1977 to 1979. The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket ran for 68 episodes on BBC Radio Two from 1982 to 1989, putting the stars in a sitcom setting. Another radio series At Home with Hinge and Bracket had more of a chat show style and ran for a single season in 1990. Hinge and Bracket appeared in 7 episodes of their own TV show Dear Ladies on BBC 2 between 1978 and 1981.
The two also made stage appearances: Dame Hilda as ‘Katisha’ in The Mikado, and Doctor Hinge as Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage in 1994. The ladies also appeared together in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest for a West End run, then followed by a nation-wide tour; and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a New Year’s Eve performance of Die Fledermaus, conducted by Placido Domingo and starring Kiri Te Kanawa. They recently toured the UK with the Peter Shaffer play Lettice and Lovage.
Patrick Fyffe was born on 23 January 1942 and died 11 May 2002.
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