 Art Clokey

Arthur "Art" 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.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.