Don LaFontaine  

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Donald LaFontaine (August 26, 1940 – September 1, 2008) was an American voiceover artist famous for recording more than 5,000 movie trailers and hundreds of thousands of television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers.

Selected filmography

• Fillmore! - Announcer
• The Terminator -Trailer Voice-over
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Trailer Voice-over
• Cast Away - Trailer Voice-over
• Fatal Attraction - Trailer Voice-over
• Batman Returns - Trailer Voice-over
• Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) - Trailer Voice-over
• Daddy Day Care - TV Spot Voice-over
• Chicken Run - Trailer Voice-over
• Dr. Strangelove - Trailer Voice-over
• PowerSlave (video game) - Narrator
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition - Commercial Voice-over
• Morrow Road - Trailer Voice-over
• Resistance 2 - Trailer Voice-over
• The World's Greatest Magic - Announcer
• The Land Before Time - Commercial Voice-over
• 79th Academy Awards - Co-announcer of the 79th Oscars.
• America's Most Wanted - Announcer
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? - Announcer
• Birds-eye Steam Fresh frozen vegetables - voice-over
• Entertainment Tonight and The Insider (2004-2008) - Announcer
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - trailer announcer
• Days of Our Lives (1990) - Promo announcer during the climax of the Cruise of Deception storyline
• He performed the voice-over promoting The Simpsons Movie in 2007, in which his comments were immediately echoed by characters' comments from the film. At one point he says, "Hey, you're just repeating everything I'm saying!" and Homer responds, "I know. It's weird!" (an actual clip from the film, in a different context.)