Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68.
LaFontaine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lung. He had been taken to the hospital Aug. 22 with a blood clot in the lung.
LaFontaine was known as the "king of the movie trailers," having done the trailer voiceovers for films such as Terminator, Fatal Attraction, Cheaper by the Dozen, Batman Returns and his personal favourite, The Elephant Man.
His baritone voice and melodramatic delivery are famously associated with the oft-repeated movie trailer phrase, "In a world…"
Here is a video about him....it is long...but the first part is really awesome!
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
In a world of movie trailers, Don LaFontaine was king
Posted by Nik English at 7:34 PM
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I hadn't heard that! Too bad.
What will we do "In a World" with no Don LaFontaine?
Wow is was amazing! Sad the world will be without him
That is seriously so sad. I'm really going to miss his voice.
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