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'King of Voiceovers' Don LaFontaine Dies at 68

Started by Jaime Quintanilla , Sep 02 2008 07:03 AM

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#1 Jaime Quintanilla

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Posted September 02, 2008 - 07:03 AM

LOS ANGELES — Don LaFontaine, the man behind the chilling voice in various movie trailers and commercials, died Monday, his agent said. He was 68.

LaFontaine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lung, ETOnline reported. The official cause of death, however, was not immediately released.

LaFontaine's vocal talents have appeared in over 5,000 movie trailers and nearly 350,000 commercials. He is most famous for the introductory line, "In a world..."

Click here for Don LaFontaine's Web site.

LaFontaine most recently appeared in a Geico Insurance commercial where he was referred to as "that announcer guy."

He is survived by his wife, singer/actress Nita Whitaker, and three children Christine, Skye and Elyse.

#2 Tobias Fünke

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Posted September 02, 2008 - 07:24 AM

dang, i wonder who is gonna start doing the voice overs

#3 Maddocks

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Posted September 02, 2008 - 09:59 AM

damn....now its going to be the happy guy from all the disney trailers.

I see faith in your eyes
never you hear the discouraging lies
broken is the promise, betrayal
the healing hand held back by deepened nail
follow the god that failed

#4 DeeZee

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Posted September 02, 2008 - 01:15 PM

http://www.yahoo.com/

theres a vid in the front page

#5 Jaime Quintanilla

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Posted September 02, 2008 - 02:13 PM

Shane???

#6 328iGuy

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Posted September 02, 2008 - 04:15 PM

Damn that sucks.

They should get Pablo Francisco to carry the torch.

"You have to understand, I love L.A., I love being our ambassador, I love bringing people together," he said. "It's funny, but I guess it still feels like I'm playing point guard, but in a different way, doing stuff more meaningful than winning."

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#7 netlord

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Posted September 03, 2008 - 01:28 AM

RIP
I loved his voice.

#8 Guest_Chicano_*

Posted September 03, 2008 - 09:46 AM

:goodpost: (minus the happy face, cuz it's tragic news, but..) yeah I was gonna' look this story up & post it today after seeing it on the news last night somewhere..

I saw this somewhat recent interview they had with him where he said all his life, people had heard his voice & it was obviously very familiar to most, BUT.. that hardly anyone had ever actually seen him nor could recognize him, BUT.. (again, lol).. until he made that famous geicko commercial, he became like a rock star so to speak he said and people started to even watch him eat in public. Maybe TMZ even started following him, haha.