Reginald Foort

Reginald Foort
Foort in 1932
Background information
Also known as	Reggie
Born	(1893-01-23)23 January 1893 Daventry, England
Died	22 May 1980(1980-05-22) (aged 87) Pasadena, California, United States
Occupation	Organist
Instrument	Cinema organ/ theatre organ

Reginald John Foort (23 January 1893 – 22 May 1980), FRCO, ARCM, was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place.^[1] 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s and 1940s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording.