For those of you who know me well, you know I love movies! Yesterday, Don Fontaine passed away. Even for those of you who don't watch a lot of movies you would still recognize his strong, low voice. He will be truly missed!
BIO
Don LaFontaine, the voiceover king whose "In a world ..." phrase on movie trailers was much copied -- and much parodied -- has died, according to media reports. He was 68.
Don LaFontaine was featured as "that voiceover guy" on a recent Geico commercial.
LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, according to ETOnline, "Entertainment Tonight's" Web site. He died from complications from pneumothorax, a collapsed lung that causes air to build in the pleural cavity, his agent, Vanessa Gilbert, told "ET."
LaFontaine, who was born in Duluth, Minnesota, began as a voice actor in the mid-1960s while working as a recording engineer, according to his Web site. His strong, slightly gravelly voice was featured on trailers for thousands of films, including "The Godfather," "Fatal Attraction" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." For a time in the late '70s, LaFontaine was the official voice of Paramount Pictures.
SHORT CLIP OF DON
September 2018
7 years ago
2 comments:
Hey Sarah, i had to change my blog to private and i sent you an email to add you to my list of readers. If for some reason you don;t get it, let me know.
Who is going to talk on the movie trailers now?
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