FILM DIRECTOR

Art Clokey

1921 - 2010

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Arthur Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor, he was 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Art Clokey has received more than 333,706 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Art Clokey is the 1,628th most popular film director (down from 1,408th in 2019), the 11,987th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,396th in 2019) and the 463rd most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Art Clokeys by language

Over the past year Art Clokey has had the most page views in the with 41,831 views, followed by Chinese (1,117), and Arabic (1,093). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (110.65%), Galician (63.03%), and Belarusian (54.75%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Art Clokey ranks 1,628 out of 2,041. Before him are Matthew Barney, Alex Kurtzman, John R. Leonetti, Chi Chi LaRue, Claudia Llosa, and Dani Levy. After him are Andrew Dominik, James Burrows, Caroline Link, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Nasir Hussain, and Erle C. Kenton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Art Clokey ranks 447. Before him are Muriel Pavlow, Richard Wilbur, Horace Gould, Andrew M. Gleason, Dinny Pails, and Vivian Blaine. After him are Kitty Kallen, Juanita M. Kreps, Kathleen Byron, Tommy Noonan, Monty Hall, and John Lindsay. Among people deceased in 2010, Art Clokey ranks 437. Before him are Maureen Forrester, Dick Gibson, Mitch Miller, Oleg Kopayev, James Moody, and Eddie Baily. After him are David Blackwell, Juanita M. Kreps, Vladislav Galkin, Jimmy Dean, Isabelle Caro, and Ellis Clarke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Art Clokey ranks 11,987 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Connolly (1974), Imogene Coca (1908), Belva Ann Lockwood (1830), Wood Harris (1969), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), and Walter Forward (1786). After him are J. P. Donleavy (1926), Charles Erwin Wilson (1890), Redfoo (1975), Joel Barlow (1754), David Newman (1954), and Kitty Kallen (1921).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Art Clokey ranks 463. Before him are Rory Kennedy (1968), Robert Duncan McNeill (1964), Matthew Barney (1967), Alex Kurtzman (1973), John R. Leonetti (1956), and Chi Chi LaRue (1959). After him are James Burrows (1940), Erle C. Kenton (1896), Jim Wynorski (1950), Tim Van Patten (1959), Deran Sarafian (1958), and Brad Anderson (1964).

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Filmography

Gumby 1
Director
On the brink of a big deal with mogul Lucky Claybert, Gumby and his band The Clayboys must do battle with the villainous Blockheads, who have kidnapped their loyal canine Lowbelly.
Oct 4o 19955.5 / 10
Gumbasia
Director
A jazzy riff on 'Fantasia' from the creator of Gumby.
Feb 5o 19557.5 / 10
Mandala
Director
Gumby creator Art Clokey takes viewers on a psychedelic journey through a strange, homemade world. Mandala is an extraordinary film, made in 1974-77, in which transformations of colored abstract shapes in a mystical dreamscape of clay animation transition out to the real world and back, suggesting a revolution in thinking, and an evolution of feeling.
Jan 1o 19776.5 / 10