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Early Life

Ever since he was a kid, he was enamored with cartoons. He grew up in Pratt, Kansas, and Saturday mornings were always fun with him because it was a time for cartoons. He learned he had a knack for doing voices and of all the characters he liked, he liked none of them better than Goofy. He always liked watching cartoons, never dreaming that one day he would get to actually be the voice of Goofy. Pratt is a city located in Pratt County, Kansas. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

His first job, at the age of 15, involved doing voices because he had an affinity for doing voices, especially those of Western stars like John Wayne or Walter Brennan. He and his friends would sometimes go through fast food drive-thrus and order foods in his voices. In college, he found work in radio and TV and then moved on to stand-up comedy as an impressionist until he moved out to Hollywood where he voiced Goofy since 1986. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other persons named John Wayne, see John Wayne (disambiguation). ... Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was a three time Academy Award winning American actor. ... B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. ... ... This article is about the Disney character. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...

During his stand-up years, he worked at a comedy club called the Comedy Corner in Dallas. Tuesday nights were open mike nights there and he had just taken a job at an electronics store. He had just recently stopped working in show business and radio and he missed his audience. So he went to the club on Tuesday nights and he created his own five-minute routine. Starting on March 16, 1982, he started going to the Comedy Corner every week and started working on his routine and it became a career inside of six months. He worked at the Comedy Corner from 1982 until he moved to California in 1986. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). ... is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...

His decision to move to California came from a commercial agent of his in Dallas and she suggested that, given his talent for voices, he should try his luck in California and see what happens. He was recently married, but and he and his wife talked it over and came to an arrangement. She stayed back in Dallas while he commuted for a year after he got an apartment. Then four months after his moving out to Hollywood, his agent asked him if he could do any Disney characters. His very first animated character audition was for Goofy. When he auditioned for the voice, he studied all the cartoons with Goofy in them, especially the ones released in the 1930s. He studied the hilarious laugh and "gawrsh". He inherited the voice of Goofy (as well as Pluto and Horace Horsecollar), around the same time Tony Anselmo inherited Donald Duck, and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor did likewise for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively. They've become the flag bearers. Bill believes that cartoon voices are not about funny voices, but rather acting. His mentor was the late Daws Butler, the voice behind many of the old Hanna-Barbera characters. Daws put it in Bill's mind that when doing cartoon voices, you're not merely doing a funny voice, you're an actor and the acting is premier and that you have to think like the character you're doing. This article is about the Disney character. ... The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the [[. In East Asia, the rise of militarism occurred. ... Pluto (also known as Pluto the Pup) is an animated cartoon made famous in a series of Disney short cartoons. ... Horace Horsecollar is a fictional character created by Ub Iwerks for Walt Disney. ... Tony Anselmo is an animator and cartoon voice actor, and since 1985, the voice of Donald Duck. ... Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ... Wayne Anthony Allwine (born February 7, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is an American voice actor, a sound effects editor and foley artist for Walt Disney Studios and the current voice behind Mickey Mouse, a role he assumed from Jimmy MacDonald. ... Russi Taylor (born on May 4, 1944 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, though some sources say 1955) is the current voice actress for Disneys Minnie Mouse character. ... Mickey Mouse is an Academy Award-winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. ... Minnie redirects here. ... Daws Butler in 1976. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...

Career

Farmer is known for starring in Astro Boy (2004), House of Mouse (2001), Mickey Mouse Works (1999), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006), Goof Troop (1992) and The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse (1987). He is best known for his voice acting for Goofy and Pluto, two famous Disney characters, and more recently he has also played Horace Horsecollar. Another big role he played was in the movie Space Jam (1996), where he voiced Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, and Foghorn Leghorn. He also has done several minor voices, both on TV (including The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) and in video games, including Destroy All Humans!, Namco's Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced General Dorr, in Square's Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza and Sam and others in cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road. Farmer has also voiced Secret Squirrel in Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law, in both the animated series and its spin-off video game. Astro Boy (2003) is a remake of the 1960s anime series Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka, which was produced by his company, Tekuza Productions, and the anime television network, Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and other... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The House of Mouse is a Disney cartoon show where Mickey Mouse and his friends run a nighclub called The House of Mouse, which shows Disney cartons as part of its floor show. ... This article is about the year. ... Mickey Mouse Works is a television show that features Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a childrens television series, that premiered in prime time on Disney Channel on May 5, 2006. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pete laughing at Goofy. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle is an updated version of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle cartoons from the 1940s. ... This article is about the year 1987. ... This article is about the Disney character. ... Pluto Pluto is a fictional character made famous in a series of Disney short cartoons. ... Disney redirects here. ... Horace Horsecollar is a fictional character created by Ub Iwerks for Walt Disney. ... This article is about the motion picture. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... For the shortwave radio station, see Yosemite Sam (shortwave). ... Sylvester J. Pussycat Senior is a fictional cat who appears in several Looney Tunes cartoons, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzalez, or Hippety Hopper. ... Foghorn Leghorn is the name of a character appearing in numerous Warner Brothers animated cartoons, especially Looney Tunes. ... The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, created by Maxwell Atoms, is an American animated television series that currently airs on Cartoon Network and Teletoon. ... Destroy All Humans! is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems on June 21, 2005. ... This article is about Namco, a Japanese leisure company and game developer. ... Tales of Symphonia ) is a video game first released for the Nintendo GameCube and later for the PlayStation 2. ... Square Company, Limited ) was a Japanese video game company founded in September of 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the video game company. ... Yakuza, released in Japan as Ryū ga Gotoku lit. ... Sam & Max Hit the Road is a graphical adventure game, originally developed and released by LucasArts in 1993 for DOS and in 1995 for Macintosh computers. ... For other uses, see Secret Squirrel (disambiguation). ... Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a comedic American animated television series created by Williams Street that airs on Cartoon Network during its Adult Swim late night programming block. ...

External links

• Bill Farmer at the Voice Chasers Database
• Bill Farmer at the Internet Movie Database