It feels a bit strange to mourn a man whose talent was providing a deep, overly serious voice to movie and TV commercials and trailers but there it is. They called him the voice of god and now he's gone. RIP.
Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the catch phrase "In a world where..." and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers, has died. He was 68.
...LaFontaine made more than 5,000 trailers in his 33-year career while working for the top studios and television networks.
Source: "Don LaFontaine, voice of movie trailers, dies" by Raquel Maria Dillon
As a poor memoriam, here's the GEICO spot that featured the voice a bit back:
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