Recently Dead

In a place where we write about people who have died, we include Don LaFontaine, the voice of over 5,000 movie trailers and nearly 350,000 commercials, making him the king of that profession. LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lung, though the official cause of death has not been released. He was 68. In addition to doing voiceovers on seemingly every movie trailer, he was also an announcer on ET and The Insider, as well as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, UPN, TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network, and could be heard in commercials for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Ford, Budweiser, McDonald's, and Coke. It's said he was the single busiest actor in history of SAG. (Source; photo via Swindle magazine)

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