Cinema Verdict » baritone http://www.cinemaverdict.com Spreading film criticism all over the web Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Legendary movie trailer voice Don LaFontaine passes away http://www.cinemaverdict.com/2008/09/02/legendary-movie-trailer-voice-don-lafontaine-passes-away/ http://www.cinemaverdict.com/2008/09/02/legendary-movie-trailer-voice-don-lafontaine-passes-away/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:58:43 +0000 adam arseneau http://www.cinemaverdict.com/2008/09/02/legendary-movie-trailer-voice-don-lafontaine-passes-away/ CBC is reporting that legendary movie trailer actor Don LaFontaine passed away on Monday. You might not know his face, but you definitely know his voice:

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…”

Our thoughts go out to his family. The world of cinema wouldn’t quite be the same without this man’s sonorous baritone voice, and it (and he) will be missed.

(via CBC)

]]> http://www.cinemaverdict.com/2008/09/02/legendary-movie-trailer-voice-don-lafontaine-passes-away/feed/ 0