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Murphy’s Gumby brought new toy sales and eventually led to a new syndicated series starting in 1988. “Gumby can laugh at himself,” Clokey told the Tribune. The Lutheran Church hired Clokey to make the “Davey and Goliath” shorts, and Clokey used the money to help bring a Gumby series back to television in the 1960s.Įddie Murphy brought a surge in Gumby’s popularity in the 1980s with his send-up of the character on “Saturday Night Live” as a cigar-smoking show business primadonna.Ĭlokey said he enjoyed Murphy’s profane Gumby. “I didn’t allow merchandising for seven years after it was on the air,” Clokey told San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2002, “because I was very idealistic, and I didn’t want parents to think we were trying to exploit their children.”Ĭlokey also created the moralizing and often satirized claymation duo “Davey and Goliath.” With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability.
And Clokey’s wife suggested he give Gumby the body of a gingerbread man.Ĭlokey said that though Gumby eventually became one of the most familiar toys of all time, he was at first resistant to roll out the bendable doll. 1983 GUMBY AND POKEY FAN CLUB Art Clokey Celluloid PIN Pinback Button. Seller 100 positive Seller 100 positive Seller 100 positive. Free shipping Free shipping Free shipping. He said he based Gumby’s swooping head on the cowlick hairdo of his father, who died in a car accident when Clokey was nine. Gumby Pokey 1986 Art Clokey Id Rather Be Rich Canada Stamp PM WOB Note.
That led to his making shorts featuring Gumby and his horse friend Pokey for the “Howdy Doody Show” and several series through the years. Gumby grew out of a student project Clokey produced at the University of Southern California in the early 1950s called “Gumbasia.” He was 88.Ĭlokey, who suffered from repeated bladder infections, died in his sleep at his home in Los Osos on California’s Central Coast, son Joseph told the Los Angeles Times. Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday.
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