By FRANCES BURSCOUGH Going to the cinema will never be the same again. The reason? Don La Fontaine has died. "Don La Who??" I hear you say. Well, let me explain ...

By LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES Don LaFontaine, the highly sought-after voice-over artist whose sonorous-voiced narration on several thousand movie trailers earned him the title of The Trailer King, has died. He was 68.

By Tim Walker For more than 40 years, gravel-larynxed Don LaFontainewas Hollywood's undisputed champion of the voiceover. Tim Walker mourns the man they called Thunder Throat In a world where movie trailers require voiceovers, Don LaFontaine was secretly a superstar.

U.S. voiceover artist Don LaFontaine has died at the age of 68, his agent said.