Voiceover Master Dies at 68

[Crazy Flakes]

Don LaFontaine, the voiceover king whose "In a world ..." phrase on movie trailers was much copied -- and much parodied -- has died, according to media reports. He was 68.

Don LaFontaine was featured as "that voiceover guy" on a recent Geico commercial.

LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, according to ETOnline, "Entertainment Tonight's" Web site. He died from complications from pneumothorax, a collapsed lung that causes air to build in the pleural cavity, his agent, Vanessa Gilbert, told "ET."

Full article here.

WHO WILL DO THE VOICEOVERS IN MOVIE TRAILERS NOW?!

2008, you suck! If all of these deaths keep up, no one will be alive in time for the world to end in 2012!

 

[Blondie Bear]

Aw! Now I'm all sad. 🙁 🙁 🙁

 

[JenniferAlice]

I say, roll on 2012!!!!
**shakes fist** Nostradamus you better be right!! I've got my heart set on it!!

 

[Bluebird]

I heard about this today in work. 🙁 I loved all his voiceovers.

 

[Aethra]

Noooo, I love the trailers and this guy's voice! GRR WORLD!

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

Aw that's sad 🙁 A lot of great people die this year 🙁

 

[untouched]

Awww damn it, that's really sad, I liked his voice 🙁

 

[FeastOnScraps]

Movies trailers will never be the same 🙁


I always fantasized about him saying
"Into every generation a slayer is born....." over the Buffy movie trailer.

 

[Fake Shemp]

lets not forget the death of the snoopy voice...Jose 'Bill' Melendez passed away on Tuesday. He was 91.

The Emmy-winning animator is largely responsible for bringing Charlie Brown and his Peanuts pals to TV screens.

 

[Dancing man]

ahhhhh thats sad to hear 🙁

 

[Relic]

This saddens me, when I listen to the old Buffies intro's I'll now know he's not there anymore.

I remember other seasons, or maybe I'm foolong myself...'Giles' voiced some of the intro.

Still, this sucks. My thoughts are with his family.