Trivia

His is the voice you hear on the majority of the trailers/previews at movie theaters nationwide. His body of work included voice over narrations for at least 5,000 film trailers and possibly as many as half a million TV and radio spots.

In interviews he stated that his voice spontaneously cracked in mid-sentence at the age of 13. He became very self-conscious about his "new" voice until his classmates at school would pay him to speak as their fathers to make "sick calls" on their behalf so they could take a day off from school.

He would bring portable recording equipment with him on vacation. He once mentioned that he received an urgent call for a voiceover when vacation. He shut himself in the hotel bathroom, took a seat on the toilet and did the job in one take.

In an interview he stated that his favorite voice-over for a film trailer was the one he recorded for David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980).

Did voice-over work for over 40 years.

Claimed that he was able to do nearly 80 voice-over jobs in a single day.

His death caused such a significant decline of voice-overs in trailers that they have become very rare.

After high school, he enlisted in the Army, and learned about recording engineering. The first promo he engineered was for Dr. Folamour ou : comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe (1964).

His first professional voice work came while working on the 1964 movie Les hors-la-loi de Casa Grande (1964). He filled in for a voice actor in a radio promo. This led to more voice work; by the 1970s, he was one of Hollywood's busiest voice talents.

Was imitated in Pablo Francisco: Bits and Pieces - Live from Orange County (2004).

Said that Peter Thomas influenced his career.

Recorded as many as 25 voice-over sessions in a single day and over 100 separate spots in a day.

His agent is Vanessa Gilbert.

Don was of French ancestry.

Father, with Nita Whitaker, of Christine, Skye and Elyse.

He has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Terminator (1984), Piège de cristal (1988), Maman, j'ai raté l'avion ! (1990), Terminator 2 : Le Jugement dernier (1991), Toy Story (1995), & Shrek (2001).