September 06, 2008

Death of The Voice

Don LaFontaine, "that announcer guy from the movies" featured in the GEICO commercial, has died. He had a long career and voiced over 5,000 movie trailers, as well as other voice work. For more, read this article.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's going to be weird going to the movies next year and not hearing his voice for the movie trailers, car commercials, and a myriad of other voice work that he would have done. The man made millions with his voice.

8:06 AM  
Blogger Rothar said...

Agreed. I can't remember a movie trailer voice that memorable since Orson Wells.

11:54 PM  

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