Art Clokey
An image from The Gumby Show, one of the productions that also features Art Clokey.

Art Clokey

October 12, 1921 — Detroit, Michigan, USA

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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.

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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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

1965

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

1965

Gumby: The Movie

Gumby: The Movie

1995

The Puppetoon Movie

The Puppetoon Movie

1987

The Gumby Show

The Gumby Show

1956

Davey and Goliath

Davey and Goliath

1961

Gumbasia

Gumbasia

1955

Mandala

Mandala

1977