Actor

Art Clokey

Directing

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Acting credits

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TMDB popularity

1.2

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Movies: 14Series: 3Crew credits: 16

TMDB ID: 129534

IMDb ID: nm0167029

Known for: Directing

Born: October 12, 1921

Died: January 8, 2010

Age: 88

Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1955 - 2016

Years active: 62

Average TMDB rating: 5.2

Wikidata: Q298537

Other jobs

Director (9)Producer (4)Opening Title Sequence (2)Executive Producer (1)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Art Clokey.