Don LaFontaine, famous voiceover, died Monday

The voice of more than 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 television commercials passed away at the age of 68 Monday from complications in Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He had been hospitalized August 22 due to a blood clot in his lungs and had been in critical condition since then. He is believed to have died from a collapsed lung.

His 2006 Geico commercial in which he parodied himself as "that announcer guy from the movies" marked one of the few times he made an appearance on television. LaFontaine supposedly voiced about 60 promotions a week, sometimes 35 a day.



Some of his famed trailer voice-overs:

• The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  
• Cast Away
• Batman Returns
• Reno 911! Miami
  
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Dr. Strangelove
• The Simpsons Movie

He also served as the commercial voice-over for:

• The Land Before Time
• Extreme Makeover Home Edition
• 24
  

And was also the announcer for:

• The World's Greatest Magic
• America's Most Wanted
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?
• Entertainment Tonight
• The Insider