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Art Clokey
American animator (1921-2010) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 88
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.
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Gumby DharmaFilm, 20062004
Davey and Goliath's Snowboard ChristmasFilm, Producer1995
Gumby: The MovieFilm, Director, Writer1990Winsor McCay AwardAward1988
Gumby AdventuresSeries, Creator, Producer1987
The Puppetoon MovieFilm, Producer1977
MandalaFilm, Director1975
The Clay PeacockFilm, Director1967
Happy EasterFilm, Director1965
Christmas Lost and FoundFilm, Director1961
Davey and GoliathSeries, Creator, Producer1956
The Gumby ShowSeries, Director, Creator
Mysterious FiresFilm, 1956Director, Writer1955
GumbasiaFilm, Director1921Born12 October 1921People around Art
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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.
