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Also known as Joshua Lockwood Logan III

American stage and film director and writer (1908-1988)

OverviewAI-generated

Joshua Logan was a male artist from Ireland, active in his work period from 1932 to 1987. His musical output includes genres such as ballad, eurovision, irish, and pop. He is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection, the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection, and the Tony Award Best Play collection.

Logan is also an author, with a recorded work count of 16. His top works include South Pacific, Fanny, Wisteria Trees - Based On Anton Chechov's The Cherry Orchard, and Josh, My Up and Down, in and Out Life by Joshua Logan (1976-05-03). He has five works listed in Crossref.

Born on 1908-10-05 and dying on 1988-07-12, Logan has 51 listeners and a playcount of 119 on Last.fm. His profile is referenced by 664 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
16

Top works

  • South Pacific
  • South Pacific
  • Fanny
  • Wisteria Trees - Based On Anton Chechov's The Cherry Orchard
  • Josh, My Up and Down, in and Out Life by Joshua Logan (1976-05-03)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Ireland
Active from
1954-05-13
balladeurovisionirishpop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
51
Total plays
119

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joshua+Logan">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Joshua Logan

Key facts

Born
Joshua Lockwood Logan III , ( 1908-10-05 ) October 5, 1908, Texarkana, Texas , U.S.
Died
July 12, 1988 (1988-07-12) (aged 79), New York City, U.S.
Education
Princeton University
Occupations
Director writer actor
Years active
1932–1987
Spouses
Barbara O'Neil ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1940 ) ​ Nedda Harrigan , ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1945 ) ​

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, and actor. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical South Pacific and was involved in writing other musicals.

Early years

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joshua Logan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.