Bill Farmer (born November 22, 1952) is an American voice actor and comedian, best known for being the current voice provider for Goofy. He is also known for playing Pluto.
Ever since he was a kid, Farmer was enamored with cartoons. He grew up in Pratt, Kansas, and Saturday mornings were always fun for him because cartoons would air. He learned he had a knack for doing voices and of all the characters he liked, he liked none of them better than G...
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Bill Farmer (born November 22, 1952) is an American voice actor and comedian, best known for being the current voice provider for Goofy. He is also known for playing Pluto.
Ever since he was a kid, Farmer was enamored with cartoons. He grew up in Pratt, Kansas, and Saturday mornings were always fun for him because cartoons would air. 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.
Farmer's first job, at the age of 15, involved 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.
During his stand-up years, Farmer...
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