Mark Elliott, who before becoming the voice of numerous Disney promos and trailers had already used his vocal skills to prepare audiences for Smokey and the Bandit, The Goodbye Girl and, through a radio campaign, Star Wars, died Saturday in Los Angeles following two heart attacks and a battle with lung cancer.
He was 81.“Mark was a true gentleMAN,” wrote friend and fellow voiceover artist Joe Cipriano in a Facebook tribute. “Getting to share all of our scenes in Lake Bell’s In a World was icing on the cake.” (Both Elliott and Cipriano appeared in Bell’s 2013 film about movie trailer voice-over artists.)Elliott’s career with Disney began with a 1977 trailer for the studio’s rerelease of 1950’s Cinderella.
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