# Identify this voiceover actor
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 13, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012 "2004-05-13T21:32:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012/1 "2004-05-13T21:32:55Z")
What’s the name of the movie trailer voiceover guy (you know, the one who does all the movie voiceovers?) as seen in [this trailer](http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html) here?
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### Author:  [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012/2 "2004-05-13T21:50:02Z")
[Hal Douglas](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0235069/). From the **Other Works** link on his IMDB page:
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> (2002) Theatrical trailer for Comedian (2002), on screen.
Pash
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012/3 "2004-05-13T22:22:24Z")
You should have said:
_ **"…In a world, its Hal Douglas…"** _
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### Author:  [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012/4 "2004-05-13T22:36:49Z")
Hmm. Some competetion for “Voice of God” [Don LaFontaine](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0480963/) , who still has him beat on sheer volume, I think (something in the vicinity of 4000 films according to [this interview](http://www.thetrailertrash.com/donlafontaine.html)). Probably enough work around to keep the both of them busy.
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012/5 "2004-05-13T23:11:03Z")
Ya know, yabob is right. Don LaFontaine is the movie trailer guy.
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### Author:  [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-voiceover-actor/245012/6 "2004-05-13T23:32:13Z")
Actually, both of them apparently do a lot of it. LaFontaine is the guy I immediately think of. It appears that Hal Douglas did the specific trailer the OP used for an example. Given that LaFontaine clears 7 figures a year doing this, it’s not surprising there’s others.