# RIP: Don LaFontaine ("In a world where" voiceover guy)
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265 "2008-09-02T10:57:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/1 "2008-09-02T10:57:27Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/obit.lafontaine/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/obit.lafontaine/index.html)
Wow, movie trailers are never going to be the same.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/2 "2008-09-02T10:58:52Z")
poor geico commercials
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### Author:  [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/3 "2008-09-02T10:59:08Z")
all I can think of is the Pablo Francisco bit…
“Now one man, Kermit the Frog, as a pimp.”
“WHERE’S MY MONEY?!”
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/4 "2008-09-02T10:59:57Z")
I remember the first time that I saw that Geico commercial…
he is NOT AT ALL like I had pictured him all of these years.
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### Author:  [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/5 "2008-09-02T11:00:01Z")
OH NOOOO
that was fast
[http://respectance.com/Don\_LaFontaine/memorial](http://respectance.com/Don_LaFontaine/memorial)
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/6 "2008-09-02T11:04:24Z")
You know who is still alive and kickin?
Don Lapre:
he made _thousands of dollars_ by placing _tiny classified ads_ from his _one bedroom apartment_
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### Author:  [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/7 "2008-09-02T11:17:32Z")
> [@newman](#):
>
> You know who is still alive and kickin?
>
> Don Lapre:
> he made _thousands of dollars_ by placing _tiny classified ads_ from his _one bedroom apartment_
>
> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mubCkCAEiDQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mubCkCAEiDQ)
> **[Don Lapre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lapre)**
>
> Donald D. Lapre (May 19, 1964 – October 2, 2011) was an American multi-level marketing and infomercial salesman. His work involved product packages such as "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and "Making Money Secrets".
> Lapre was criticized as selling questionable business plans that often did not work for his clients. In June 2011, Lapre was charged with 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and promotional money laundering related to his Internet businesses. He was arrested on June ...
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/8 "2008-09-02T11:18:48Z")
haha, oh, i know. that’s how i found out it was Lapre and not LaPrix…
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### Author:  [@Pass\_McGass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pass_McGass)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/9 "2008-09-02T11:25:15Z")
> [@BuickGN](#):
>
> poor geico commercials
lol, the dude has done thousands of movie previews and only 1 or 2 geico commercials and that’s how you remember him? Geico commercials?
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### Author:  [@cky89](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cky89)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/10 "2008-09-02T11:29:00Z")
Wow, that guy kicked ass.
RIP
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### Author:  [@BlkKnight099](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkKnight099)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rip-don-lafontaine-in-a-world-where-voiceover-guy/54265/11 "2008-09-02T21:34:57Z")
RIP