Ashton Smith imitating Don LaFontaine in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Trailer

[PSshadow92]

I've heard this guy's voice for years. I used to stay up late in middle school to watch "Seconds from Disaster" so I could see the chain of events accompanied by tense music and hear "the guy with the awesome voice" tell me about it.

[RockRadioJock]

That is NOT Don. It is, without any doubt, Ashton Smith.

[joeleecorreapineda]

stop putting the damn background music ..i want to use these voices in my videos withh MY choice of background music but u guys keep ruining it

[tvvoice]

The main Voice-Over IS indeed the great ASHTON SMITH!

I am merely a friend of his attempting to clarify!

[filmbuff2000]

That is NOT Don. It's Ashton Smith.

[vuurwerkl]

plz read de description above no fights anymore thumbs up this so people read :P

[TheMunkRocker]

omg I almost shit my pants! XDIt's not what he says, it's the way he said it. also the music helps too. omg that 's so fucking scary!!! XDD

[vulcanstriker]

@TheMunkRocker glad it scared u, now go watch something actually BY Don

[megaexplosions]

RIP don lafontaine

[voiceaddict]

... and Ashton Smith has --no-- reason to imitate anyone.

[icemanizaki]

Amazing!!! Yeah, that is not Don(RIP)

[supruzr]

Stephen Fry did the John Cleese voice, and Ashton Smith did the Don LaFontaine voice.

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

I THINK IT'S JACK GALE  VOICE OVER GREAT

[CeroPochuxo]

The voice was definitely NOT that of Don LaFontaine. If others are saying it was Ashton Smith, it probably was Ashton Smith.

[1981z28camaro]

yeah, your right

[calito0010]

beginning Ashton Smith, then suddenly changes to Don LaFontaine. KIDS!!!!

[1981z28camaro]

it's not Don Lafontaine, lol it's Ashton Smith

[scotthebruce]

actually it's stephen fry..

gotta love lafontaine's "In a world.."

classic

[samuriazombie]

well it is hhgg so it may be don :)

[WatchMyAwesomeVideos]

Ashton Smith does sound similar to Don though

[Chieftain459]

it's ashton smith. trust me.

[nelsonmars]

LOL THATS THE TICKET AWESOME!

[tokelazor]

RIP

[tokelazor]

if thats you... lol

[blaisejones]

enough, can't u just change the damn name to ashton smith?

[mrm4xim4m]

THIS IS ASHTON SMITH THAT IS A FACT.

[0dysee]

Don laFontaine and that is a fact.

[RaeOfficial]

it's ashton smith :)

[infinitedancer]

damn nice !!!

[ozmiata]

Yeah, I don't think this is Don. Don's voice is a lot richer, fuller. I looked at Ashton Smith's site and compared, and I'm sure this is him. But, like Doncalooch said, there are a lot of people who do these things, so it could be a number of people.

[richhamilton80]

It's not Don Lafontaine by virtue of the fact that Ashton Smith himself commented on the clip and, via cryptic wording, admits that it's his own voice....look down four comments below this one :-) Just throwing this out there..... maybe we should re-evaluate our priorities.....ya know.....seeing as how we've put this much effort into finding out who's voice is on a movie trailer?

[ozmiata]

I saw it, I was just bored and felt like commenting.

[richhamilton80]

Nice.

[ember960]

Hey does anyone have the full trailer of this because its my fav and it would be great if you had access to it if you'd put it on youtube

I'd be very grateful

[ashtonsmith]

Don't believe everything you read. I know. I get paid to read stuff everyday.

Ashton

[richhamilton80]

Well put, Mr. Smith. Thank you for setting that straight. And just for the record, I recognized your dulcet tones immediately :-)

[shanebroughton]

But so many websites list LaFontaine as doing this trailer, and it does sound kinda like him.

[ironmogul]

Ashton Smith sounds right. Good response Doncalooch, many people seem to forget that fact. Don LaFontaine isn't the ONLY "trailer voice guy" out there. The list also includes Jonathan Cook, John Leader, Joe Cipriano and famous Disney voice Mark Elliot. Don has a distinct voice that if you really listen closely sets him apart from the rest.

[atlien40004]

that's ashton smith, not la fontaine

[DaRunningMan]

Anyone who posts this and says it's Don Lafontaine simply has no idea what he sounds like. There is no discussion on this. And you tell me that I need to do a little research?

Unlike you I did do my research and I found out that the guy who did the voice over in this trailer is a man by the name of Ashton Smith.

Why don't you take your own advice and search LaFontaine and Ashton Smith and compare their voices to the one you hear in the above clip and see for yourself how wrong you are.

[Doncalooch]

There are two men who voiced this trailer. The deeeep voice is that of Ashton Smith. DaRunningMan is correct, Ashton does a lot of the trailers, Don doesnt do near as many trailers as he used to although he still does A LOT of VO work. There are many guys who do the trailers nowadays, Ashton Smith, George DelHoyo, Ben Patrick Johnson, Hal Douglas, Andy Geller, Tony Rodgers, Scott Rummell and countless others.

[silkyhairluver]

dead on...good response.

[kannonboom]

hal douglas, and ur wrong this is don lafontaine. it was one of his 5000 trailers, hitchikers that is.

[MardyAss]

Hal Leonard or something?

[DaRunningMan]

Yeah...that isn't Don LaFontaine. The person who posted this must think that every voice over in a trailer is Don LaFontaine.

Whoever did this voice over specifically is the other major voice over artist in trailers. Does anyone know this guy's name?

[ibanyan]

This isn't Don LaFontaine's voice. You have it wrong.

[shanebroughton]

Really short but cool.