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Arthur “Art” Clokey (October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the co-creator of the character Gumby. Clokey’s career began in 1955 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, with 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. In the 1990s Gumby: The Movie was released, sparking even more interest.Clokey’s second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America. IMDB Wikipedia $1 million 1921 1921-10-12 2010-01-08 Art Clokey Net Worth Arthur Charles Farrington Davey and Goliath (1960) Detroit Director Gumbasia (1955) Gumby Adventures (1988) Gumby: The Movie (1995) Libra Michigan October 12 producer Ruth Clokey children USA Writer

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1. Works almost exclusively in clay animation

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• He and his then-wife Ruth Clokey created Gumby, which made its debut on The Howdy Doody Show in August 1956 while Clokey was studying under Slavko Vorkapich at USC. The Clokeys also created Davey and Goliath.
• Adopted by Joseph Clokey, a musician, a composer and dean of music department at Pomona College in California, after being sent by his mother to a home for abandoned boys.
• Father of Ann Clokey and video producer Joe Clokey.

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