Don LaFontaine

Donald Leroy LaFontaine ( born August 26, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota, † September 1, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American spokesman of movie trailers. He was famous for having spoken more than 5,000 trailers and 350,000 television commercials.

Career

LaFontaine worked at the United States Army as a sound engineer for the music corps. After completing his military service, he worked at a recording studio in New York. In 1964 he was hired by Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer as a voice-over announcer. In the 1970s, he worked exclusively for Paramount Pictures and was promoted to Vice President. Beginning of the 1980s made ​​LaFontaine again independently. Since that time, he said, up to 60 Einspieler a day, and was considered one of the most sought after speaker in the United States.

LaFontaine died 68 years old at the consequences of a collapsed lung.