# In a world without Don LaFontaine and now Hal Douglas...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 13, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620 "2014-03-13T15:44:31Z")
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### Author: ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620/1 "2014-03-13T15:44:31Z")

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What will movie trailers sound like?

Noted voice actor [Hal Douglas](http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/03/13/289779418/hal-douglas-the-voice-of-many-many-movie-trailers-dies-at-89) died last Friday.

Another one of the old school passes.  
Roddy

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### Author: ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620/2 "2014-03-13T15:49:45Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> What will movie trailers sound like?

[This.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USd13kJIMAg&t=0m23s)

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### Author: ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620/3 "2014-03-13T18:38:18Z")

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More or less on topic, I watched the comedy [_In a World…_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294677/reference); pretty entertaining.

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### Author: ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620/4 "2014-03-13T20:14:35Z")

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Hal Douglas was one of the greatest voiceover artists ever. And he had a sense of humor, too:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fVDzuT0fXro/hqdefault.jpg "Comedian Movie Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDzuT0fXro)

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### Author: ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620/5 "2014-03-13T20:25:03Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> More or less on topic, I watched the comedy [_In a World…_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294677/reference); pretty entertaining.

I also found it to be reasonably good. Recommend it for anyone interested in these kind of people.

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### Author: ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-world-without-don-lafontaine-and-now-hal-douglas/683620/6 "2014-03-14T03:12:34Z")

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In case anyone missed it, [there’s this great little short.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ytwX4lXDr8) Hal Douglas only ‘appears’ over the phone however. But the goofy Disney guy still cracks me up! Particularly the way the other guys find him annoying…