Mark Elliott, the ubiquitous voice of Disney movie trailers, television promos and home video titlesfrom the late 1970s to the early 2000s, has died.
He was 81. Elliott died Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering two heart attacks,friend and fellow voiceover artist Charlie Van Dyke told The Hollywood Reporter.
He also was battling lung cancer. "He was one of a kind … and kind is a great word to describe him," Van Dyke said. A well-known radio DJ who became one of Hollywood's premier voiceover artists, Elliott was heard on a slew of movie trailers and promos for both CBS and Fox during the 1980s and '90s, but it was his warm and comforting Midwestern tone promoting Disney products that made him familiar to millions around the.
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