Survivors include Joan Rock Clokey children Shasta, Sequoia and Sage and an aunt, Dorothy Parkander.ĭonations may be made to the Sierra Club, to the California Native Plant Society or to the Dorothy Parkander Chair in Literature at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. He and his wife, Joan Rock Clokey, wrote the pictorial biography Gumby Imagined: The Story of Art Clokey and His Creations, which was published in November. In addition to remastering the Gumby library and promoting the character in multiple markets, Clokey also was the lead writer and producer on the 2004 special Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas, and was a story consultant on the 2006 documentary Gumby Dharma.
Since his father died in 2010 at the age of 88, Clokey and his wife have been running Premavision/Clokey Productions, the company under which Art Clokey created and produced Gumby content, as well as content for the Davey and Goliath characters. He died on Januin Los Osos, California, USA. He was married to Gloria Clokey and Ruth Clokey.
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He was a director and writer, known for Gumby: The Movie (1995), The Gumby Show (1956) and Gumby Adventures (1988). He wrote, directed and produced hundreds of educational films and distributed them through his San Luis Video Publishing company. Art Clokey was born on Octoin Detroit, Michigan, USA as Arthur Charles Farrington. He was 56.Īn environmentalist known throughout his life as “Gumby’s Little Brother,” Clokey graduated Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in horticulture.
Clokeys career began in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.
Joe Clokey, caretaker of the Gumby franchise created by his late father Art Clokey, died March 2 in Santa Barbara, Calif., after a cardiac arrest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Arthur 'Art' Clokey (Octo January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, best known as the co-creator of the character Gumby. Arthur Art Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator. Joe Clokey, who managed the Gumby and Davey and Goliath animated characters created by his father Art Clokey, died in March at the age of 56.
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