Basic Information About Don LaFontaine
| Category | Celebrities |
|---|---|
| Professions | Voice Actor, Actor, Film Producer |
| Net worth | $80,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1940-08-26 |
| Place of birth | Duluth |
| Date of death | 2008-09-01 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Curiosities and Trademarks | His booming, powerful voice Use of the scene-setting phrase "In a world where..." in his voiceovers for movie trailers |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Don LaFontaine win?
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Don LaFontaine roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| The Birdcage | Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited) |
| Last Action Hero | Movie Trailer Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
| Scrooged | IBC Promo Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
| Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Trailer Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
| In a World... | Don La Fontaine |
| Family Guy | FOX Announcer / ... 6 episodes, 2001-2009 |
| JAG | Opening Narrator (uncredited) unknown episodes |
| Team Knight Rider | Opening Narrator (uncredited) unknown episodes |
| Xena: Warrior Princess | Opening Credits Narrator (uncredited) unknown episodes |
| Phineas and Ferb | Movie VO Voice 1 episode, 2009 |
| America's Most Wanted | Announcer 89 episodes, 1991-2011 |
| Stargate SG-1 | Wormhole X-Treme Trailer Announcer (uncredited) unknown episodes |
| Grosse Pointe | 'Underdogs' trailer narrator (uncredited) unknown episodes |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self 2 episodes, 2007 |
| Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Announcer / ... 14 episodes, 1997-1999 |
Don LaFontaine's Quotes
- It's never too early....for a salad!
- In a world...
Interesting Facts about Don LaFontaine
- Claimed that he was able do nearly 80 voice-over jobs in a day.
- Did voice-over work for over 40 years.
- His is the voice you hear on the majority of the trailers/previews at movie theaters nationwide. His body of work included voice over narrations for at least 5,000 film trailers and possibly as many as half a million TV and radio spots.
- Recorded as many as 25 voice-over sessions in a single day and over 100 separate spots in a day.
- Was imitated in Pablo Francisco: Bits and Pieces - Live from Orange County (2004).
- In an interview he stated that his favorite voice-over for a film trailer was the one he recorded for David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980).
- Said that Peter Thomas influenced his career.
- His agent is Vanessa Gilbert.
- Father, with Nita Whitaker, of Christine, Skye and Elyse.
- In interviews he stated that his voice spontaneously cracked in mid-sentence at the age of 13. He became very self-conscious about his "new" voice until his classmates at school would pay him to speak as their fathers to make "sick calls" on their behalf so they could take a day off from school.
- His first professional voice work came while working on the 1964 movie Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964). He filled in for a voice actor in a radio promo. This led to more voice work; by the 1970s, he was one of Hollywood's busiest voice talents.
- After high school, he enlisted in the Army, and learned about recording engineering. The first promo he engineered was for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
- He would bring portable recording equipment with him on vacation. He once mentioned that he received an urgent call for a voiceover when vacation. He shut himself in the hotel bathroom, took a seat on the toilet and did the job in one take.
