Don LaFontaine is no longer the voice of that world, it is a lesser world. LaFontaine, the Voice of the Movie Trailer whose goosepimply vocal performances number in the thousands of hundreds of dozens, has died in Los Angeles at age 68.

And be sure to revisit the thrilling voiceover masterpiece, “5 Guys in a Limo,” featured here a few years ago, after the jump. Don’t you dare miss it!

Pay your respects at DonLaFontaine.com.

Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.

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