The LA Times reports that Don LaFontaine the movie "Trailer King" is dead. You know the guy he always began with "In a world in peril…", okay not always there were times when he said other stuff, but he always delivered it in the same deep gravelly voice.
The paper said he was known as "Thunder Throat," "The Voice of God" and "the highest-paid movie-trailer narrator" in Hollywood.
He did movie trailers for some of the classics includihng films such as '2001: A Space Odyssey' ("A shrieking monolith deliberately buried by an alien intelligence"), 'Fatal Attraction' ("A look that led to an evening, a mistake he'd regret all his life") and 'The Terminator" ("In the 21st century, a weapon would be invented like no other").
As well as a string of others including 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Indiana Jones', 'Rambo' and 'Die Hard', 'MASH', 'The Godfather', 'Ghostbusters', 'Home Alone', 'L.A. Confidential', 'Independence Day' and nearly a whopping 5,000 other films. series.
"When the slime starts to rise... who you gonna call?" Ghostbusters II - the most excited I ever got about a new film :)
A true movie legend, and will be missed, imitated and parodied for a long time.
He must have gargled rusty nails for breakfast - a voice only matched by James Earl Jones for presence....
By all accounts, one of the nicest, most honest and self-effacing people in Hollywood. For that alone, his loss will be great.
Gordon Macmillan
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