Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-10-12 (103 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Art Clokey
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.
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Known For
Acting
2006
1995
1988
1956
Directing
2016
1995
1977
1975
1967
1965
1957
1956
1955
Art
1965
Visual Effects
1995
1955
Writing
1995
1957
1956
Production
1995
1988
1987
1961
1957
1956