A Legandery Voice Is Stilled…
You may not have known his name—but your certainly knew voice.
Don LaFontaine—the king of voice over work—died suddenly in Los Angeles following complications from elective surgery he underwent earlier this year.
Back in March, we ran this post which included an in-his-own-words account of how he nearly died after botched elective surgery…
* * * ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 26, 2008 * * *
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JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES…..
The man who has the “voice of doom delivery” that has narrated thousands of movie previews almost ended up on the great cutting room floor in the sky…
Don LaFontaine—who gained on-camera fame with the general public as the “movie announcer guy” in a Geico commercial—was one of several famous voice over artists we profiled in this post last year…
Don’s voice was silenced—and his life almost cut short after a routine bit of elective surgery went bad.
You can read his own words here about what happened—and how he’s now recovering ..
Just like the movies he promotes—Don’s on his way toward a happy ending…
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Unfortunately—this movie did NOT have a happy ending. His wife said a blood clot in Don’s lung suddenly appeared last week, and he was unable to recover from it.
Don was the kind of guy who didn’t mind poking fun of himself—as you can see in these clips..
Don was 68 years old.
—Steve
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