Comments on: Don Lafontaine, 1940-2008

By: Leeta Fnord

Leeta Fnord — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:38:41 +0000

Evil Midnight Lurker: It was OBVIOUS. SOMEone would make that joke…but she wanted to be the FIRST. Now, LOOK OUT!: Payback’s a BITCH…and her NAME is LEETA FNORD.

Kyle W.: How many black characters in cartoons aren’t Phil Lamarr? And don’t forget Dave Herrman….

By: Graehaus

Graehaus — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:25:49 +0000

So sad to see him go, what a voice.

By: Kyle W.

Kyle W. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:36:04 +0000

Like jason ray, I wish I had thought to ask for a voicemail recording while he was alive.

By: SC

SC — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:40:31 +0000

It’s somehow hard to to imagine someone making his living just narrating trailers for movies and the like.

Awesome voice.

By: jason ray

jason ray — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:43:59 +0000

Man, what I would give for one of those personalized answering machine messages.

Jim Cummings does a spot on impersonation of Don’s voice but that will never be the same. Though I doubt they’ll do anything with that considering the backlash Jim got from imitating Louie Prima’s voice in the jungle book cartoons.

By: Dierna

Dierna — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:59:26 +0000

But… who’s gonna narrate the trailers now?! It….waaaaa!!!!

By: Kyle W.

Kyle W. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:08:29 +0000

A) This is sad.

B) Exar’s clip leaves out those who do characters, like Billy West, Patrick Warburton, Nicole Sullivan, or Phil Lamarr. Of course, those last two also do MadTV, but we won’t speak of that. I get that the focus is on advertising, but West has done loads of that too.

By: rwe1138

rwe1138 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:54:50 +0000

Damn, a night at the movies won’t be the same without him.

By: Evil Midnight Lurker

Evil Midnight Lurker — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:50:18 +0000

IN A WORLD without Don… ;.;

By: Exar

Exar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:11:06 +0000

He will be missed.

Here’s another great clip of him, and other giants in voiceover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw

It’s kind of amazing when you realise that with all the movie trailers out there, there’s really only a handful of guys doing the voice work for 90% of them.

man… this sucks.

By: Sage Freehaven

Sage Freehaven — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:17:25 +0000

I cannot describe how much this sucks.