{"id":11302,"date":"2019-02-07T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:53:46","slug":"the-best-of-percy-rodrigues-voice-of-a-thousand-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/the-best-of-percy-rodrigues-voice-of-a-thousand-trailers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of Percy Rodrigues, Voice of a Thousand Trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the whole, movie trailers haven\u2019t had narrators for over a decade. They\u2019ve been replaced by overbearing musical scores, ominous cover versions of pop songs, or some combination of the two, along with snippets of dialogue from the movie\u2019s characters. Just a few decades ago, however, the \u201ctrailer voice\u201d was at its peak, and one of the masters of the form was Percy Rodrigues. He began acting in the 1930s, doing plays in his native Canada before moving to New York City at the age of 42, where he landed roles in several prestigious Broadway productions and joined The Actors Studio. He would go on to have over 100 credits in film and television, including authoritative roles on Star Trek<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(pictured above) and Peyton Place<\/i><\/span><\/a> at a time when black men on TV were usually servants. But he\u2019s best known as the voice from the trailers for numerous classic genre films. Here are a few selections of his prolific work.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Exorcist<\/i> (1973)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n