Movie News (9/2/2008): In some sad news that will surely affect the movie industry, long time movie-trailer voiceover artist Don LaFontaine has passed away from complications from pneumothorax at a hospital in Los Angeles, California. He has voiced thousands of movie trailers, from such films as “The Godfather,” “Fatal Attraction” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” just to name a few. His phrase, “…in a world” was so widely used and loved - and often parodied - that it actually became a cinematic cliche to use it in your movie trailer.
CNN has a great article about him that you can read here and you can also check out his own website, DonLaFontaine.com. He will be missed.
Check out the Geico commercial he was in. He was genius!
*Thanks to Scotto for the heads up.
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I’ll be curious who (or how many) will try to replace this guy!
Who do you think could do it as well? That’s a good discussion starter:
What voiceover artist can you see taking Don’s place?
I am sure there are more people than just him doing this, but he’s the voice we all recognize. It might be that someone just happens to stumble upon someone that can do it.
One things for sure…it wont be the same! And maybe thats a good thing! But I sure know I’ll miss that Guy!
I have heard his voice for years but thanks to the Geico commercial, I finally got to see what he looked like. I guess it neat he finally got some face recognition later in his career/life.He will be missed!!