{"id":12952,"date":"2008-09-02T17:57:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T00:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/02\/in-a-world-where-a-famous-voice-artist-has-passed-away.html"},"modified":"2008-09-02T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T00:57:21","slug":"in_a_world_where_a_famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/in_a_world_where_a_famous.html","title":{"rendered":"“In a world where a famous voice artist has passed away …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice artist that everyone knows, has passed away at 68<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, according to ETOnline, “Entertainment Tonight’s” Web site. He died from complications from pneumothorax, a collapsed lung that causes air to build in the pleural cavity, his agent, Vanessa Gilbert, told “ET.”<\/p>\n

LaFontaine, who was born in Duluth, Minnesota, began as a voice actor in the mid-1960s while working as a recording engineer, according to his Web site. His strong, slightly gravelly voice was featured on trailers for thousands of films, including “The Godfather,” “Fatal Attraction” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” For a time in the late ’70s, LaFontaine was the official voice of Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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 A man with a simple, but remarkable, talent.<\/p>\n

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(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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