Don LaFontaine - "The Movie Trailer Voice"

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      You have probably seen a lot of movie video trailers, especially the ones we presented recently on our site, where there was a powerful male voice which gave the audience insight into what's the movie about - we present you today Don LaFontaine - "The Movie Trailer Voice": he is known to have used his gifted voice in over 5000 movie trailers, television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers. OK, so what else do we know about him? One of our sources mentions: "His signature voice is both ominous and sonorous. He is often nicknamed "The King of Movie Trailers", "Mr. Voice," "Thunder Throat", "The Movie Voice Over Announcer Guy", "Mr. In-A-World" or "The Voice of God", and credited with helping to create the modern movie trailer. Due to the sheer volume of trailer voiceovers LaFontaine has recorded, he has become identified with the phrase "In a world...", which has been used in movie trailers so frequently that it has become a cliché. He has also parodied this cliché several times, more recently in a commercial for GEICO insurance. His career began as a recording engineer at the National Recording Studios, where he had the opportunity to work with Floyd Peterson producing promo spots for Dr. Strangelove. Peterson incorporated many of LaFontaine’s ideas for the spots, and not long after, they went into business together."

      But we won't waste any more time with details, we will just let "The Voice" introduce himself and speak to you in the below YouTube video, while you can also check out the second video with the GEICO flick and the Pablo Francisco video with his "Previewman Parody". We're honored to mention Don in our magazine, we wish him all the best and hope to see a lot more movie trailers introduced by him.

Don LaFontaine, the one and only

the GEICO spot

Pablo Francisco - Previewman Parody

an interview