Don LaFontaine(1940-2008)

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World's Most Amazing Videos (1999–2008)

Don LaFontaine was born on 26 August 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fugitive (1993), Renegade (1992) and In a World... (2013). He was married to Joan Studva and Nita Whitaker. He died on 1 September 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known for

7.8

6.0

TV Series

6.6

5.5

In a World...
6.6
- Don La Fontaine
- 2013
America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back
7.2
TV Series
- Announcer (voice)
- 1991–2011
Taking the Hill: The Warrior's Journey Home
7.2
- Host
- Narrator
- 2009
Phineas and Ferb
8.1
TV Series
- Movie VO Voice
- 2009
Family Guy
8.1
TV Series
- FOX Announcer
- Narrator
- Arab #1 (voice) ...
- 2001–2009
Captain Alpha Male
TV Movie
- Lord of All Good
- 2009
Free Radio
8.3
TV Series
- Don LaFontaine
- 2008
American Dad!
7.4
TV Series
- Movie Trailer Announcer (voice)
- 2008
Random! Cartoons
7.0
TV Series
- Announcer (voice)
- 2007
Frank TV
4.2
TV Series
- 2007
Live!
5.8
- Announcer (voice)
- 2007
Internet Safety Force
Video
- Opening Narration
- 2007
The 79th Annual Academy Awards
7.1
TV Special
- Announcer (voice)
- 2007
Morrow Road Concept Trailer
Video
- Narrator
- 2006
Interrogation
5.9
Short
- Luke
- 2006

Seinfeld
8.8
TV Series
- voiceover: announcer - TV spot
- 1998
Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
7.0
TV Series
- voiceover: announcer - TV spot
- 1994
Fresh
7.5
- voiceover / announcer: TV Spots
- 1994
The Fugitive
7.8
- voiceover: announcer - home video promotional material
- 1993
Friday Foster
6.0
- voiceover: announcer: TV Spots
- 1975
'Sheba, Baby'
5.7
- voiceover: announcer - TV spots
- 1975
Coming Apart
6.5
- sound editor
- 1969
San Sebastian 1746 in 1968
6.9
Short
- sound editor
- 1968

Official site
- Official Site
Alternative names
- Don La Fontaine
Height
- 5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
Born
- August 26, 1940
- Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Died
- September 1, 2008
- Los Angeles, California, USA(collapsed lung)
Spouses
Other works
TV commercial: Hollywood Video Stores, in which he is hidden inside a cabinet at a check-out counter until a clerk (played by Howard Cho) opens it and says, "Don, we need you." leading him to climb out and recite a trailer for Good Will Hunting (1997) to a couple considering renting the video.
Publicity listings

Trivia
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.