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==Filmography==
==Filmography==
===TV shows list===
{{unsourced|section|date=May 2015}}
* ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' - Bill
===Film===
* ''Stick Figures'' - Additional Voices
{|class = "wikitable sortable"
* ''[[Peyton Place (TV series)|Peyton Place]]'' - Additional Voices
|+
* ''[[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]'' - Goofy, Pluto
! Year
* ''[[Pound Puppies (2010 TV series)|Pound Puppies]]'' - Steve the Pound Hound
! Film
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Press
! Voice
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' - Jury Foreman, Voice on Intercom at Airport Information, Bob Finster
! class = "unsortable" | Notes
* ''[[Spider-Man The Animated Series]]'' - [[Static (Marvel Comics)|Static]]/Virgil Hawkins
|-
* ''[[The Proud Family]]'' - Children #2
| 1987
* ''[[Famous 5: Her Showing]]'' - Grubby Delivery
| ''[[RoboCop]]''
* ''[[Beetlejuice (TV series)|Beetlejuice]]'' - Dr. Proctor, Tree (1 episode)
| Justin Ballard-Watkins
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' - Last Humming (1 episode)
| Live-action film
* ''[[Adventure Time (season 1)|Adventure Time]]'' - Music Church (1 episode)
|-
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' - Video Game, Head Worker (1 episode)
| 1990
* ''[[Rocky & Bullwinkle: Press]]''
| ''[[The Prince and the Pauper (1990 film)|The Princes and the Pauper]]''
===Live action list===
| Goofy, Pluto, Horace Horsecollar, Weasels #1
* ''[[Live Action Toy Story]]'' - Mr. Potato Head (voice)
| (voice)
===Movies list===
|-
* ''[[A Bug's Life]]'' - Reporter #2
| 1991
| ''[[Rover Dangerfield]]''
* ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' - Goofy (voice)
* ''[[An American Tail]]'' - Animal
| Additional voices
* ''[[Annie & Moby: Opening]]'' - Santa Claus
| (voice)
* ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' - Prince
|-
* ''[[Arthur's Missing Pal]]'' - Spanish #2
| 1991
* ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'' - Explorers, Men, Atlanteans
| ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''
* ''[[Barnyard (film)|Barnyard]]'' - Hillbilly #2, Officers
| Additional voices
* ''[[Brave (2012 film)|Brave]]'' - Additional Voices
| (voice)
* ''[[BrainPOP: Raiders Glass]]'' - British Captain, Additional Voices
|-
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins]]'' - Astronauts, Computers
| 1992
| ''[[Porco Rosso]]''
* ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'' - The Truck Gang
* ''[[Casper Meets Wendy]]'' - Stinkie
| Additional voices
* ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' - Chef Baker, Snowbound the Horse
| (voice)
* ''[[Day of the Diesels]]'' - Tree Specialist #3
|-
* ''[[Daddy Day Care]]'' - Earl Thomas, Producer #2
| 1993
* ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' - Gary the Whale
| ''Disney Sing-Along-Songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas''
* ''[[GoAnimate: The Movie]] (2006 commentary)'' - Voices of Male and Art Director
| Goofy
* ''[[Hey Arnold!: The Movie]]'' - Dockworkers, Supplies
| (voice)
* ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' - Another Captain, Pally the Fish
|-
* ''[[Ice Age (2002 film)|Ice Age]]'' - Additional Voices
| 1995
| ''[[A Goofy Movie]]''
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]'' - Joe
* ''[[King of the Railway]]'' - Steve the Gigantic Engine
| Goofy
* ''[[Louie's Birthday Party]]'' - Jimmy John's Delivery
| (voice)
* ''[[Misty Island Rescue]]'' - Captain Sailor
|-
* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' - Professor Ranft, Frank, CDA's Agent #2
| 1995
* ''[[Night at the Museum (film)|Night at the Museum]]'' - Curious George the Monkey
| ''[[Runaway Brain]]''
* ''[[Over the Hedge (film)|Over The Hedge]]'' - Truman's Henchturtle #1
| Pluto
* ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' - Additional Voices
| (voice)
* ''[[Rugrats in Paris: The Movie]]'' - Air Crewman, Japanese Collection, Signing Off
|-
* ''[[Router's Birthday Surprise]]'' - Hedge Spuddlie #2
| 1995
* ''[[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron]]'' - Additional Voices
| ''[[Toy Story]]''
| Additional voices
* ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'' - Additional Voices
* ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' - Troublemakers, Soldiers
| (voice)
* ''[[The Lion King (1994 film)|The Lion King]]'' - French Baker, Scary Elephant
|-
* ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'' - Detective Announcer
| 1995
* ''[[Toy Story (movie)|Toy Story]]'' - Aliens, Air, Soldiers
| ''Theadore Rex''
* ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' - Pilot
| Additional voices
* ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' - Additional Voices
| (voice)
* ''[[The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' - NTSA Director
|-
| 1996
| ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Space Jam]]''
| Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam
| (voice)
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Casper Meets Wendy]]''
| Stinkie
| (voice)
|-
| 1999
| ''[[The Iron Giant (film)|The Iron Giant]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas]]''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Toy Story 2]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[An Extremely Goofy Movie]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Monsters, Inc]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse]]''
| Goofy, Pluto, Practical Pig
| (voice)
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Mickey's House of Villains]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Brother Bear]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2004
| ''[[The Lion King 1½]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Home on the Range]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas]]''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Son of the Mask]]''
| Mask Otis
| (voice)
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Cars]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Happily N'Ever After]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2007
| ''Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Surf's Up]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]''
| Willie Bear, Additional Voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2009
| ''Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2009
| ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Choo-Choo Express''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2010
| ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2011
| ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Space Adventure''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2012
| ''[[The Lorax]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Monsters University]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|}

===Television===
{|class = "wikitable sortable"
|+
! Year
! Television
! Voice
! class = "unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1987
| ''[[D-TV]]'' series
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1989
| ''Goofy About Health''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1989
| ''Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery''
| Fergie Furbelow
| (voice)
|-
| 1990
| ''Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Disneyland Fun''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Raw Toonage]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1992-1993
| ''[[Goof Troop]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1992
| ''Goof Troop Christmas''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1992-1993
| ''[[Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Bonkers]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1994-1995
| ''Mickey's Fun Songs'' series
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Quack Pack]]''
| Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''[[The Spirit of Mickey]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''Paracycling''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1999
| ''Disney's Mouseworks Spaceship''
| Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 1999-2000
| ''[[Mickey Mouse Works]]''
| Goofy, Pluto, Horace Horsecollar
| (voice)
|-
| 2001-2003
| ''[[Disney's House of Mouse]]''
| Goofy, Pluto, Horace Horsecollar, Practical Pig
| (voice)
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Astro Boy (2003 TV series)|Astro Boy]]''
| Tawashi
| (voice)
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Loonatics Unleashed]]''
| Mr. Leghorn
| (voice)
|-
| 2004-2006
| ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]''
| Stank Williams, Blort Sportscaster, Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2006-present
| ''[[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Higglytown Heroes]]''
| Janitor Jay
| (voice)
|-
| 2010
| ''Jonah Hex: Motion Comics''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2006-2012
| ''[[Robot Chicken]]''
| Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pubertis, Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2013
| ''Wheel of Fortune: Making Disney Memories Week''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2013-present
| ''[[Mickey Mouse (TV series)|Mickey Mouse]]''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2014-present
| ''[[The 7D]]''
| Doc, Sir Yips-A-Lot
| (voice)
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Jake and the Never Land Pirates]]''
| Ghostly Bob
| (voice)
|}

===Video games===
===Video games===
* ''[[Antz (video game)|Antz]] - [[Z]]''
{|class = "wikitable sortable"
* ''[[GoAnimate: The Movie 2]]'' - PC Guy, Cayby, British Stickguy
|+
* ''[[Barnyard (video game)|Barnyard]]'' - Pip the Mouse, Farmer
! Year
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' - Dr. Warren Zitcha
! Video Game
! Voice
! class = "unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Star Wars: Rebel Assault]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Sam and Max Hit the Road]]''
| Sam, Psychic, Flambe
| (voice)
|-
| 1994
| ''Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness''
| Leshy
| (voice)
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Full Throttle (1995 video game)|Full Throttle]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion]]''
| Bald Eagle, Coyote, Gila Monster, Additional vocies
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''Disney's Hades Challenge''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity''
| King Gryph, Weirdling Tradesman
| (voice)
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Baldur's Gate]]''
| Brunos, Irlentree, Yeslick Orothiar
| (voice)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Sacrifice]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Mickey's Speedway USA]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Looney Tunes Racing]]''
| Foghorn Leghorn
| (voice)
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Looney Tunes: Space Race]]''
| Foghorn Leghorn
| (voice)
|-
| 2000
| ''Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Goofy's Fun House]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2002-present
| ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Disney Golf]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Toontown Online]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2003
| ''[[The Haunted Mansion (video game)|The Hunted Mansion]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 ]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]''
| Narrator, Rural Male
| (voice)
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Crash Tag Team Racing]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Over the Hedge (video game)|Over the Hedge]]''
| Lou, Rottweiler
| (voice)
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island]]''
| Old Hermit Crab, Crab Refugee #4, Plant Guard
| (voice)
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Meet the Robinsons (video game)|Meet the Robinsons]]''
| Ice Cream Vendor
| (voice)
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Cars Mater-National]]''
| Additional voices
| (voice)
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Disney Think Fast]]''
| Goofy, Horace Horsecollar
| (voice)
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Epic Mickey]]''
| Goofy, Horace Horsecollar
| (voice)
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Kinect Disneyland Adventures]]''
| Goofy, Pluto
| (voice)
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two]]''
| Goofy, Horace Horsecollar, Practical Pig
| (voice)
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion]]''
| Goofy
| (voice)
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Disney Magical World]]''
| Goofy, Pluto, Sleepy
| (voice)
|}

==References==
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Revision as of 00:40, 20 May 2015

For other people named Bill Farmer, see Bill Farmer (disambiguation).
Bill Farmer
Farmer at the 2014 Annie Awards
Born
William Farmer

(1952-11-14) November 14, 1952 (age 71)
Pratt, Kansas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Voice actor, comedian
Years active1986–present
AgentAVO Talent
Known forThe voice of Goofy
Spouse
Jennifer Farmer
​
(m. 1985)​
ChildrenAustin Farmer[1]
AwardsDisney Legend Award (2009)
WebsiteOfficial website

William "Bill" Farmer (born November 14, 1952) is an American voice actor and comedian, best known for being the current voice of the Disney characters Goofy, Pluto, and Horace Horsecollar.

Early life

Farmer was born on November 14, 1952 in Pratt, Kansas.

Ever since his childhood, Farmer was enamored with cartoons. He learned that he had a knack for doing voices and of all the characters he liked, the character Goofy was whom he liked best.

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 character voices. Bill attended the University of Kansas, and is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. 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 began voicing Goofy in January 1987. In 1982, while he was still doing stand-up comedy, Farmer worked at a comedy club called the Comedy Corner in Dallas, Texas. He continued to work there until his move to Hollywood in 1986.

His decision to move to California came from a Dallas commercial agent who suggested that, given his talent for voices, he should try his luck in California. He was recently married, but 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.

He asserts that voice acting is not about funny voices, but about acting. His mentor was the great voice actor Daws Butler, the man behind many of Hanna-Barbera's characters. He taught Farmer that when doing cartoon voices, you're not merely doing a funny voice, you're an actor and the acting is premier and you have to think like the character you're doing.[2]

Career

In 1987, he had a small part as reporter Justin Ballard-Watkins in the film RoboCop.[2]

Farmer's very first voice over audition was for Goofy. When he auditioned for the voice, he studied the way the original actor Pinto Colvig performed as Goofy in the 1930s and 1940s cartoons. He studied the hilarious laugh and the distinctive "gawrsh". He inherited the voice of Goofy (as well as Pluto), around the same time Tony Anselmo inherited Donald Duck, and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor did likewise for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively. Farmer also played Goofy in A Goofy Movie (1995), its sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000), the Kingdom Hearts series of video games, Goof Troop (1992), which centered around the character and his son, Mickey Mouse Works (1999), House of Mouse (2001), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006).

He originated the voice of Horace Horsecollar in Disney's version of The Prince and the Pauper and has played him ever since.[2][3] Farmer also performed additional voices on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse (1987), and Astro Boy (2004).

Other significant characters he has played include Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, and Foghorn Leghorn in the movie Space Jam (1996). He has also done several guest voices, both on TV, including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and in video games, including the Destroy All Humans! series, Namco's Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced Governor-General Dorr, in Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza, Captain Wedgewood and Frill Lizard in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, many voices on EverQuest II, Cletus Samson, Floyd Sanders, Jeff Meyers and Ryan LaRosa in the video game Dead Rising[4] and Sam and others in the cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road.

Farmer has also played Secret Squirrel on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Stinkie in Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy, Willie Bear in Horton Hears a Who! and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in Robot Chicken in both the animated series and its spin-off video game. He also voiced Gaston in one part of Beauty and the Beast, when Gaston eats eggs.

As of 2014, he plays Doc, the leader of the title characters in Disney's animated television series The 7D.[3]

Bill Farmer still regularly performs comedy routines at the Laugh Factory.

Recognition

In September 2009, Farmer was named a Disney Legend. In 2011, the International Family Film Festival awarded Bill Farmer the 'Friz Award' for Animation.

He won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production for his work as Goofy and Grandma in Mickey Mouse.[5]

Filmography

TV shows list

Live action list

Movies list

Video games

References

  1. ^ http://www.toonhouseinc.com/about/
  2. ^ a b c Interview with Bill Farmer on Rob Paulsen's Talkin Toons Podcast, 2012
  3. ^ a b http://www.mediamikes.com/2014/02/disney-legend-bill-farmer-talks-about-voicing-goofy-and-new-series-the-7d/
  4. ^ http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1139
  5. ^ 42nd Annual Annie Awards - Complete Winners List

External links

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