# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/art-clokey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:38:07.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/art-clokey"
name: "Art Clokey"
slug: "art-clokey"
description: "Arthur Charles Clokey was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor. He was a pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1953 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the Howdy Doody Show and later got their own series The Adventures of Gumby, from which they became a familiar presence on American television. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live."
tagline: "American animator (1921-2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Art_Clokey.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-10-12"
deathDate: "2010-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.36692666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167029/"
    handle:    "nm0167029"
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    title: "アート・クローキー"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump