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You may not know his name, but you know his voice. Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68. LaFontaine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lung. He was well known for his booming, deep voice often intoning "In a world..." LaFontaine also did thousands of television commercials, network promotions, video game trailers and other spots. He told Entertainment magazine he did more than 60 such promotions a week, and in the days before the internet made it possible to work in a home studio, was famous for having a driver take him from studio to studio to save time finding parking. He recently parodied himself in a Geico commercial.
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