Art clokey biography

American animator (–)

Arthur Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, &#;– January 8, ) was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor, he was pioneer in the popularization of stop-motionclay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey.

Clokey's career began in with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.^[2][3][4][5] 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 s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live.