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Does anyone know what film (or films) started the whole " in a world..." business? I'm sure plenty of people looking up LaFontaine would want to know this; I sure don't know. Anybody know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Priceyeah ( talk • contribs)
Wikipedia entry on trailer man Hal Douglas says Douglas is known in the film industry as the "In a world..." guy. (Douglas & LaFontaine are easily confused: I've just removed credit here for a parody appearance in The Holiday which is actually Hal Douglas.) Lyn50
Someone needs to change this picture.
Yeah that guy is just on google but hes nothing like the guy from the geico commercial ( Googleyii 02:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC))
I think the 'cigarettes' portion of the Hitch-Hiker's trailer was done by a CBC Radio One announcer who is only known as 'The Voice'. He does the intro for the 9 AM weekday show called The Current.
[Update: The Hitch Hiker's trailer was not Don LaFontaine, but rather Ashton Smith (the same guy who narrates "Seconds From Disaster"] Someone needs to remove that statement.
The trailer link (10) is broken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.58.44.146 ( talk) 10:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I am pretty sure the narrator is Stephen Fry and not Ashton Smith, but maybe this the movie differs in the U.S. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.73.134.163 ( talk) 13:09, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I got here trying to find details on the voice of god weapon. Mathiastck 23:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Hopiakuta 16:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
"LaFontaine voices about sixty promo sessions a week; he demands $600,000 per 30 second promo" can anyone provide a source for this? There is no way this is true.
This paragraph contains a trainwreck of a run-on sentence and after reading it 4 times, I still don't know what in the hell it is about. Could someone please fix this?-- Senna27 22:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Is it LaFontaine who appears in a Listerine commercial "at a sink..."? G33K 18:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone confirm or deny whether Don LaFontaine is the uncredited voice-over for the 1983 Nickelodeon series The Third Eye? - tuttlemsm http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/896-the-third-eye/
Does the list of nicknames in the lead seem a little over indulgent to anyone. Seems like we're trying to include everything anyone has ever said about him in the form of nicknames. If we're gonna go that route we obviously need to add "the one guy with the voice", "that bald dude over there", "Holy crap he has a deep voice", and "Honestly, does nobody else record movie trailer voice-overs?". Those are some great nicknames right there, that's what those are. But seriously, surely it can be trimmed down to the smaller proportion of more notable monikers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.196.38 ( talk) 08:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
According to All Access Media ( a trade pub for radio ), based on contracts signed... www.allaccess.com (you'll need to be a member and log in) Wamnet ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 17:37, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
This site was added to the External Links. I thought that such "memorial" sites where not Wiki acceptable. Proxy User ( talk) 18:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Someone's marked the statement "Similar voice actors Ashton Smith, Hal Douglas, and Peter Cullen have all been categorized as being a close copy to the style of LaFontaine, and are sometimes confused with LaFontaine." as "citation needed".
Why? It doesn't seem contentious or likely to be challenged. I'm happy to provide a citation nonetheless, but I don't know enough about Wikipedia's sourcing rules to do so properly. The obvious sources for this would be things like "the very history of this article" (which had several trailers misattributed to LaFontaine), or "a Google search for 'seinfeld comedian trailer don-lafontaine' compared to 'seinfeld comedian trailer hal-douglas'. Or an article about "that movie trailer guy" that erroneously attributes a trailer to LaFontaine.
All of that, in turn, would seem to be Original Research. It seems unlikely that anyone has written an *article* discussing the confusion. Yet it clearly exists. So.. uh.. what's an encyclopedia to do? JayLevitt ( talk) 19:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody know where I can get a complete list of all the movie trailers he worked on? Specifically, I'm just to find out which Star Trek movie trailers he worked on (if any). I'm pretty sure at least two of them has his voice; at least three others could be him. Any help would be appreciated. -- From Andoria with Love ( talk) 00:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The ones I think may be him are The Voyage Home (sounds a bit different, but may be because he's younger), The Undiscovered Country, Generations (voice doesn't sound quite right), First Contact, and Insurrection. -- From Andoria with Love ( talk) 23:21, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The media keeps making references to a prolonged illness he had. The description of his lung clots/collapse don't seem to be consistent with this. Is there something else that needs to be added? Could the "prolonged" language be a reference to cancer or AIDS? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.122.60 ( talk) 17:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
This is the same Don LaFontaine as this one, isn't it? Should we have a link to both? Evan1975 ( talk) 02:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
For a biography on an individual known for his voice, I should think a short audio clip would be appropriate. If libre, that would be most excellent, but I think it would meet the non-free content criteria to use a non-free sample. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 01:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
His obit in the New York Times says he did about 350,000 commercials; this entry says "hundreds of thousands". This statistic makes no sense. According to this entry he worked for 46 years. If he was an immediate success and worked 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, if my math is correct, that's an average of 158 commercials a day. A 30 second commercial takes a lot more than 30 seconds to record, even if each took an average 10 minutes, then he would have had to work 26 hours of each of those days making commercials. I think not. Am I missing something? MatthewBrooklyn ( talk) 21:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
I haven't listened to Rick Dees lately, but I would presume he is mister Mr.Voice but I don't see any mention of his work at Rick Dees. -- JForget 01:12, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
While I do not dispute that he is extremely prolific, the opening paragraph's claim of "hundreds of thousands" of commercials seems rather excessive...is there a source for this claim? - 70.251.65.215 ( talk) 16:03, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't Don the voice overs of Seasons 4-7 of Star Trek: The Next Generation? I think I heard his voice if the preview of the Season 1 episode "The Arsenal of Freedom"-- BigMac1212 ( talk) 02:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Does anyone know what film (or films) started the whole " in a world..." business? I'm sure plenty of people looking up LaFontaine would want to know this; I sure don't know. Anybody know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Priceyeah ( talk • contribs)
Wikipedia entry on trailer man Hal Douglas says Douglas is known in the film industry as the "In a world..." guy. (Douglas & LaFontaine are easily confused: I've just removed credit here for a parody appearance in The Holiday which is actually Hal Douglas.) Lyn50
Someone needs to change this picture.
Yeah that guy is just on google but hes nothing like the guy from the geico commercial ( Googleyii 02:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC))
I think the 'cigarettes' portion of the Hitch-Hiker's trailer was done by a CBC Radio One announcer who is only known as 'The Voice'. He does the intro for the 9 AM weekday show called The Current.
[Update: The Hitch Hiker's trailer was not Don LaFontaine, but rather Ashton Smith (the same guy who narrates "Seconds From Disaster"] Someone needs to remove that statement.
The trailer link (10) is broken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.58.44.146 ( talk) 10:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I am pretty sure the narrator is Stephen Fry and not Ashton Smith, but maybe this the movie differs in the U.S. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.73.134.163 ( talk) 13:09, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I got here trying to find details on the voice of god weapon. Mathiastck 23:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Hopiakuta 16:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
"LaFontaine voices about sixty promo sessions a week; he demands $600,000 per 30 second promo" can anyone provide a source for this? There is no way this is true.
This paragraph contains a trainwreck of a run-on sentence and after reading it 4 times, I still don't know what in the hell it is about. Could someone please fix this?-- Senna27 22:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Is it LaFontaine who appears in a Listerine commercial "at a sink..."? G33K 18:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone confirm or deny whether Don LaFontaine is the uncredited voice-over for the 1983 Nickelodeon series The Third Eye? - tuttlemsm http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/896-the-third-eye/
Does the list of nicknames in the lead seem a little over indulgent to anyone. Seems like we're trying to include everything anyone has ever said about him in the form of nicknames. If we're gonna go that route we obviously need to add "the one guy with the voice", "that bald dude over there", "Holy crap he has a deep voice", and "Honestly, does nobody else record movie trailer voice-overs?". Those are some great nicknames right there, that's what those are. But seriously, surely it can be trimmed down to the smaller proportion of more notable monikers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.196.38 ( talk) 08:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
According to All Access Media ( a trade pub for radio ), based on contracts signed... www.allaccess.com (you'll need to be a member and log in) Wamnet ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 17:37, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
This site was added to the External Links. I thought that such "memorial" sites where not Wiki acceptable. Proxy User ( talk) 18:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Someone's marked the statement "Similar voice actors Ashton Smith, Hal Douglas, and Peter Cullen have all been categorized as being a close copy to the style of LaFontaine, and are sometimes confused with LaFontaine." as "citation needed".
Why? It doesn't seem contentious or likely to be challenged. I'm happy to provide a citation nonetheless, but I don't know enough about Wikipedia's sourcing rules to do so properly. The obvious sources for this would be things like "the very history of this article" (which had several trailers misattributed to LaFontaine), or "a Google search for 'seinfeld comedian trailer don-lafontaine' compared to 'seinfeld comedian trailer hal-douglas'. Or an article about "that movie trailer guy" that erroneously attributes a trailer to LaFontaine.
All of that, in turn, would seem to be Original Research. It seems unlikely that anyone has written an *article* discussing the confusion. Yet it clearly exists. So.. uh.. what's an encyclopedia to do? JayLevitt ( talk) 19:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody know where I can get a complete list of all the movie trailers he worked on? Specifically, I'm just to find out which Star Trek movie trailers he worked on (if any). I'm pretty sure at least two of them has his voice; at least three others could be him. Any help would be appreciated. -- From Andoria with Love ( talk) 00:13, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The ones I think may be him are The Voyage Home (sounds a bit different, but may be because he's younger), The Undiscovered Country, Generations (voice doesn't sound quite right), First Contact, and Insurrection. -- From Andoria with Love ( talk) 23:21, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The media keeps making references to a prolonged illness he had. The description of his lung clots/collapse don't seem to be consistent with this. Is there something else that needs to be added? Could the "prolonged" language be a reference to cancer or AIDS? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.122.60 ( talk) 17:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
This is the same Don LaFontaine as this one, isn't it? Should we have a link to both? Evan1975 ( talk) 02:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
For a biography on an individual known for his voice, I should think a short audio clip would be appropriate. If libre, that would be most excellent, but I think it would meet the non-free content criteria to use a non-free sample. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 01:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
His obit in the New York Times says he did about 350,000 commercials; this entry says "hundreds of thousands". This statistic makes no sense. According to this entry he worked for 46 years. If he was an immediate success and worked 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, if my math is correct, that's an average of 158 commercials a day. A 30 second commercial takes a lot more than 30 seconds to record, even if each took an average 10 minutes, then he would have had to work 26 hours of each of those days making commercials. I think not. Am I missing something? MatthewBrooklyn ( talk) 21:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
I haven't listened to Rick Dees lately, but I would presume he is mister Mr.Voice but I don't see any mention of his work at Rick Dees. -- JForget 01:12, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
While I do not dispute that he is extremely prolific, the opening paragraph's claim of "hundreds of thousands" of commercials seems rather excessive...is there a source for this claim? - 70.251.65.215 ( talk) 16:03, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't Don the voice overs of Seasons 4-7 of Star Trek: The Next Generation? I think I heard his voice if the preview of the Season 1 episode "The Arsenal of Freedom"-- BigMac1212 ( talk) 02:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)