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Hal Douglas is a voice actor who has lent his deep voice to many movie trailers and television commercials. He has been described by a Miramax publicist as "perhaps the most recognizable trailer voice in the business." audio clip (MP3) Promotional photo of Hal Douglas The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ...
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A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ...
Theatrical trailers are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown; they are commonly known as previews of coming attractions. ...
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Miramax is a Big Ten film distribution and production company. ...
Because he has recorded so many trailers through the years, he has sometimes been mistaken for Don LaFontaine, although they sound considerably different. Douglas specializes in a more lighthearted and warm delivery and LaFontaine has more attitude. Douglas also has a more gravelly voice. Unlike most movie trailer announcers, Douglas lives in northern Virginia and his agent is based in New York City instead of Los Angeles. Don LaFontaine (born August 26, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota) is a voice actor famous for recording over 5,000 movie trailers, television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers. ...
Douglas is known in the film industry as the "In a world..." guy because many of his trailers have begun with these words and his voice has immortalized them (although LaFontaine says he actually created the phrase). In addition, Douglas has been the promotional voice for the former WB, A&E and The History Channel. His voice can also be heard as the "trailer announcer" in the 2006 movie, The Holiday. [1] The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ...
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Douglas was born in Connecticut in 1924, served in WWII and attended the University of Miami, Florida as a drama major. He began a career in Radio in the 50s. By the 1960s he became a producer for several prominent advertising agencies in New York. He finally moved into doing voiceovers for commercials, promos and trailers by the early 70s and has been doing so ever since.
Hal Douglas can be seen parodying himself in the trailer for Jerry Seinfeld's film Comedian. See the links below. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...
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A documentary by Jerry Seinfeld. ...
Radio Hal also does work for I95.5 FM in Trinidad and Tobago.[citation needed]
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