Pomona College Miami University University of Southern California The Webb Schools
Occupations
Animator
director
producer
screenwriter
voice actor
Years active
1953–1995
Known for
Creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath
Spouses
Ruth Clokey
(m. 1948; div. 1966)
Gloria Clokey
(m. 1976; died 1998)
Children
2
Family
Joseph W. Clokey (father)
Awards
Inkpot Award (2006)[1]
Arthur Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor, he was pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1953 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 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live.
Clokey's second-most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America (now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America).[6]
Clokey founded the company Premavision (which has manufacturing subsidiary, Prema Toy Company) around his Gumby and Pokey franchise.
^Inkpot Award
^Tim Lawson; Alisa Persons, eds. (2004). The magic behind the voices. University Press of Mississippi. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-57806-696-4.
^TV personalities: biographical sketch book: Volume 3. St. Louis, Mo. : TV Personalities. 1957. OCLC 2470684.
^"Hero Complex". Los Angeles Times.
^"Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby". Los Angeles Times. January 9, 2010.
^"Who Are Davey and Goliath?". Daveyandgoliath.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
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Gumby Show is an American clay animation television series developed by ArtClokey. In the United States, the first episode of the series originally aired...
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the framing story. Its framing story stars the voices of Dick Beals, ArtClokey, Paul Frees and Dallas McKennon as the main characters. The original 1987...
Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 12, 2021. Clokey, Joe (2017). Gumby Imagined: The Story of ArtClokey and his Creations. Dynamite. p. 228. ISBN 9781524104344...
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create The Katzenjammer Kids, which would in turn serve as inspiration for ArtClokey to create his antagonists for Gumby, the Blockheads.[citation needed]...
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her TV role. The opening credits were done using clay animation done by ArtClokey, the creator of Gumby. Variety called it a "lightweight affair lacking...
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