Don LaFontaine dead at 68
2 September 2008
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Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68.
LaFontaine’s agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voiceover artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
LaFontaine has been a fixture in Hollywood for decades, working on about 5,000 movie trailers. Much of his fame stems from his trademark movie-trailer catch phrase, “In a world where…”
