Movie trailer narrator Don LaFontaine has died

[Raph's Girl]

ARGH!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/...t_lafontaine_2

Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.

LaFontaine's agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

LaFontaine has been a fixture in Hollywood for decades, working on about 5,000 movie trailers. Much of his fame stems from his trademark movie-trailer catch phrase, "In a world where..."

[RAM BAM]

That sucks! I just found out his name recently!

[Machias Banshee]

"In a world with no narrator..."

This is so sad. I loved his voice. It's going to be VERY hard to replace him.

[Jester]

Dude that sucks, he's one of my idols....he has such a wonderful voice.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by RAM BAM

That sucks! I just found out his name recently!

Yeah.. I didn't even know his real name till he did the Geico ad :/

[Buslady]

I knew who he was, knew the face, the voice...he was awesome. It won't ever be the same without that voice.

[RAM BAM]

Just adding one more point, he was ubiquitous like the guy who
does all the disney voice-overs on the trailers and tv/dvd promos.

[Ninjinister]

I saw this in an e-mail from my brother this morning. I was completely floored. I learned LaFontaine's name back when he narrated one of my all-time favourite shows, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and read up on him subsequently. The man's done a lot of quality work both in movie trailers and in other projects. I think the last new thing I heard him do was the trailer to Sonic Chronicles for the DS.

Things are never going to be the same without him. A lot of people didn't really think about the man behind the voice, but without a doubt, everyone knows his work. One of the unsung heroes of the entertainment age, clearly.

The strange thing is, just before my brother sent off the e-mail, I had watched Family Guy just before bedtime. LaFontaine narrated the trailer for Passion of the Christ 2 in that episode.

[Voltron]

Originally Posted by The S

I saw this in an e-mail from my brother this morning. I was completely floored. I learned LaFontaine's name back when he narrated one of my all-time favourite shows, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and read up on him subsequently. The man's done a lot of quality work both in movie trailers and in other projects. I think the last new thing I heard him do was the trailer to Sonic Chronicles for the DS.

Things are never going to be the same without him. A lot of people didn't really think about the man behind the voice, but without a doubt, everyone knows his work. One of the unsung heroes of the entertainment age, clearly.

The strange thing is, just before my brother sent off the e-mail, I had watched Family Guy just before bedtime. LaFontaine narrated the trailer for Passion of the Christ 2 in that episode.

Beyond Belief was beast as ****. It had the winning combo of Frakes and LaFontaine. It was almost too difficult to resist.

[Mars-Chan]

Well, Pablo Francisco does a great VOA thing...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Xdmqgupbs



But how sad is that, the great booming voice of that man could pass on...?

[Lil G]

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

"In a world with no narrator..."

ha ha ha that was hilarious

[Raph's Girl]

Here's a couple fun things. This one has Don LaFontaine and 4 other trailer voice over artists (the Disney guy is just plain weird).



And this one is Don LaFontaine talking about the voice over work he's done and stuff along with a couple other trailer artists.