Bill Farmer was born November 14, 1952, in Pratt, Kansas, the second child in his family. Farmer began doing voices, at the age of ten, involved doing impressions, especially those of Western stars like John Wayne or Walter Brennan. He studied the way the original actor Pinto Colvig performed as Goofy in the classic cartoons. Farmer has also performed additional voices on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse (1987) and Astro Boy (2004) In 1987, Farmer had a small part as reporter Justin Ballard-Watkins in RoboCop. He has also played Yosemite Sam, Sylvester and Foghorn Leghorn in the film Space Jam.