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title: Jimmy Hodson text: Jimmy Hodson American actor, narrator, and television host Jimmy Hodson was born in Orange, California, April 16, 1962. He is a former announcer on the long running syndicated TV show "Divorce Court". Hodson narrates many movie trailers, commercials, shows and TV promos and was the signature voice of Fox Soccer Channel since its inception in 2005 until 2011. In the past, Hodson was the announcer and comedy cast member on basketball legend Magic Johnson's short-lived late night talk show on Fox called "The Magic Hour". Hodson's height of 6'-8" was instrumental in securing the job with Magic Johnson who liked title: Jimmy Hodson text: player who is committed to Stanford University starting in 2015, and has been a member of the USA Youth National Team (winning a silver medal in Thailand at the World Championships in 2013), and played for the USA at the 2013 Women's U23 World Championships in Mexico, and the 2014 NORCECA Women's World Qualifier in Colorado Springs (gold medal). Jimmy Hodson American actor, narrator, and television host Jimmy Hodson was born in Orange, California, April 16, 1962. He is a former announcer on the long running syndicated TV show "Divorce Court". Hodson narrates many movie trailers, commercials, shows and TV title: Trailer (promotion) text: LaFontaine. Since the trailer is a highly condensed format, voice-over is a useful tool to enhance the audience's understanding of the plot. Some of the best-known, modern-day trailer voice-over artists have been the aforementioned LaFontaine, Hal Douglas, Mark Elliott, John Leader, Corey Burton, George DelHoyo, Peter Cullen, Morgan Freeman, Ashton Smith, Jim Cummings, John Garry, Tom Kane, Nick Schatzki, Ben Patrick Johnson, Tony Rodgers, Beau Weaver, and Brian Cummings. Classic voice-over artists in film trailers of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s included Howard Strickling (for MGM), Lou Marcelle (for Warner Bros.), Art Gilmore, Knox Manning, Reed Hadley, Les Tremayne (for title: Hal Douglas text: Hal Douglas Harold Douglas (born Harold Cohen; September 1, 1924 – March 7, 2014) was an American voice actor best known for performing thousands of voice-overs for movie trailers, television commercials, and stage plays over the course of a six-decade career. Harold "Hal" Douglas was born Harold Cohen in Stamford, Connecticut, on September 1, 1924, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Samuel and Miriam Levenson Cohen. Douglas and his brother Edwin were primarily raised by their grandparents Sarah and Tevya Levenson after their mother died when Douglas was only nine. He served in World War II, and attended title: Voice acting in the United States text: radio are also cast using voice acting agencies. Ernie Anderson was one of radio's most prominent voices throughout the 1970s and 1980s and was heard on radio stations across the United States. Nationally syndicated disc jockey Casey Kasem of "American Top 40" provided the voice of Shaggy in the "Scooby-Doo" TV cartoon series. While Don LaFontaine filled the category of "The Voice of God" narrator of thousands of movie preview trailers until his death in 2008, Ashton Smith, Howard Parker and Ben Patrick Johnson now provide most of the narration for movie trailers. David Mark was heard around the world