The man behind that movie voice

By COLIN COVERT
Star Tribune
September 3, 2008

Duluth native Don LaFontaine, the voice-over artist whose authoritative baritone and stern delivery graced thousands of movie trailers, died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. LaFontaine, 68, whose affectionate film industry nickname was "the voice of God," may have been the busiest actor in the history of the Screen Actors Guild, though most of his projects lasted from 30 seconds to two minutes.

LaFontaine introduced scores of film trailers with the melodramatic formula "In a world where (some threat is present), one (heroic person) will (do something constructive)." the rest