Art Clokey
Directing
- Born
- October 12, 1921 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Died
- January 8, 2010 (age 88)
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Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 - January 8, 2010) was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.
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From the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth invented Gumby. Since then Gumby and his horse Pokey have been a familiar presence on television, appearing in several series beginning with the Howdy Doody Show and later The Adventures of Gumby. 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.
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Known for
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
November 6, 1965
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
July 14, 1965
Gumby: The Movie
October 4, 1995
The Puppetoon Movie
June 12, 1987
Gumbasia
February 5, 1955
Mandala
January 1, 1977
Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas
December 19, 2004
The Clay Peacock
January 1, 1975
Gumby's Christmas Capers
April 1, 2014
Adventures of Gumby: A Sample
January 1, 2016
Christmas Lost and Found
December 25, 1965
Happy Easter
March 26, 1967
Behind the camera13
- 2016Adventures of Gumby: A Sample Director
- 2014Gumby's Christmas Capers Producer, Director, Writer
- 2004Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas Producer
- 1995Gumby: The Movie Director, Writer, Producer
- 1987The Puppetoon Movie Executive Producer
- 1977Mandala Director
- 1975The Clay Peacock Director
- 1967Happy Easter Director
- 1965Christmas Lost and Found Director
- 1965Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine