#Clockey gumbssia series#

He graduated from his father's alma mater, Miami University, in 1948. Clokey later studied geology at Pomona College, where his foster father Joseph was an organist, before leaving in 1943 to join the military during World War II. Īt Webb School in Claremont, young Clokey came under the influence of teacher Ray Alf, who took students on expeditions digging for fossils and learning about the world around them. At about 11, young Arthur was adopted by Joseph Waddell Clokey, a well-known composer of sacred and secular music. Rejoining his mother in California, the boy was banished by her new husband and placed in a children’s home. After his parents' divorce when he was about 8, he lived with his father when Arthur was 9, his father was killed in an automobile accident. Ĭlokey founded the company Premavision (which has manufacturing subsidiary, Prema Toy Company) around his Gumby and Pokey franchise.Īrthur Charles Farrington was born in Detroit on October 12, 1921. 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.Ĭlokey'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).

#Clockey gumbssia series#

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. 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. Arthur Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American 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.