Don LaFontaine (innate inside Duluth, Minnesota on August 26, 1940) is a illustrious voice-over actor. His deep voice has been utilized within assibilate 4000 movie trailers and numbers of supplementary television commercials and network promos (notably on the FOX Network).

Don LaFontaine, nicknamed "The King of the Movie Trailers" & "The VoG (Voice of God)", is credited by owning creating a modern motion picture trailer. He is too responsible with created numbers of of the moving-picture show trailer clichés, such as "In a world where...," "A one-man army...," or even "From the bedroom to the boardroom...."

LaFontaine voices astir lx promo sessions the week; he commands the super high earnings & is okay, the multi-millionaire thanks to his function. He utilized to become chauffeured around his have whiten stretch limo between recording studios then when to non waste instance wanting to find parking, so existence entity to complete other jobs by the day; however has recently began working away from his personal all but entirely by an ISDN line.

About completely cinema audiences will have heard Don’s voice. These are described when breathy, deep, heavy & ominous. [http://vbfile6.voicebank.net/sandboxes/17/Trailers/English/Men/LaFontaine.mp3 audio clip (MP3)]

LaFontaine is non a lone deep-basso voice actor behind a film trailers: he is typically confused by using Tex Brashear, Hal Douglas, or Peter Cullen, who own completely arguably copied LaFontaine's style.

LaFontaine began as a recording engineer at National Recording Studios, where he got an chance to operate by having Floyd Peterson producing promo spots for Dr. Strangelove. LaFontaine's ideas for the spots were thirstily incorporated by Peterson, & it shortly went into business together. For the 1964 Western titled Gunfighters of Casa Grande, LaFontaine got to contribute for unavailable voice actor to finish the client presentation, therefore he utilized his have voice; a client bought the spots & LaFontaine had a fresh career. Per 1970s the LaFontaine approach to trailers was becoming standard, with the hard narrative approach & heavily melodramatic coloration to the voice work.

A ominous style of voice listed by LaFontaine was sent up in the trailer for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which it is described as "a deep voice, which sounds like a seven-foot tall man, who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood." LaFontaine has also lent his voice to several categories of clues on the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy!'', including DR. SEUSS AT A MULTIPLEX, COMING Presently... HISTORY!, & FOOD The LAFONTAINE [http://www.j-archive.com/search.php?search=LaFontaine].