One of the great voice over guys died last night. Don LaFontaine, best known for being the "In a world" guy died from complications stemming from a blood clot in the lungs. 
RIP Don LaFontaine
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Aww man...
Agreed.
The guy brought pizazz to any type of movie he did the voice over for.
he will be missed.
Rest In Peace Mr. LaFontaine.
Damn.
You really never do know what you've got till its gone.
Sorry to hear this news. I love trailers almost as much as the actual movie I'm going to see and it's too bad his voice has now fallen silent.
I wonder if he did the voice for the fake trailer on Family Guy with Jesus as an action hero..."Let he who is without sin kick the first ass"-that was one of the funniest all time fake trailers ever!
You really never do know what you've got till its gone.
Sorry to hear this news. I love trailers almost as much as the actual movie I'm going to see and it's too bad his voice has now fallen silent.
I wonder if he did the voice for the fake trailer on Family Guy with Jesus as an action hero..."Let he who is without sin kick the first ass"-that was one of the funniest all time fake trailers ever!
60 Minutes followed him around for one day. It was amazing. He went from studio to studio in a limo, went in for 10-30 minutes, nailed the copy, and went to the next one. And each gig was extremely high-paid.
And he had a great sense of humor about what he did.
Mel Blanc, Don LaFontaine ... about the only classic voice talent left is Don Pardo.
--Ted
And he had a great sense of humor about what he did.
Mel Blanc, Don LaFontaine ... about the only classic voice talent left is Don Pardo.
--Ted
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He's been around since the 50's and 60's?
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God, meet your voice
doubleohfive
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He's been around since the 50's and 60's?
--Ted
No, but technically, neither was Don.
I think he did do a Family Guy where he did a voice-over for a trailer featuring The Rock, and he gets sidetracked trying to figure out just what race The Rock is.
I'm acquainted through a family member with a voice-over artist named Don Morrow, who has a very similar style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Morrow
He did all of the voice-over for Titanic, amongst many others, and has a career on and off-camera going back to the Golden Age of TV. He was the Shell Answer Man in the commercials from the '70s and '80s. He mentioned LaFontaine to me as the top man in the business, though he said that there were about 20 people who did 90% of voice-over work, not counting celebrities who are better known for non-voice-over doing commercials and such; and many of them used the same style as LaFontaine. But he's even older than LaFontaine, in his 80s, and I don't know how active he currently is in doing trailers and the like. He was teaching a course last I knew.
Here's another one. I looked this up thinking it might have been LaFontaine, but it's a fellow named Hal Douglas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbFuNQwTbs
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This guy was awesome. he would do people's answer machines and student film projects for free. He'll be missed.
Totally unexpected. Shame really, as you think with all that money he'd have been to the doctors regularly and had that detected and fixed early. :-(
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