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WFMK-FM: "Art Clokey Passes Away At 89(Los Osos, CA) -- The man who created Gumby, the miniature green animated man made out of bendable clay, has died. The 'San Luis Obispo Tribune' reports Art Clokey died Friday morning at home in the central California town of Los Osos. He was 89. Gumby grew out of a claymation short Clokey made while studying film at the University of Southern California. Gumby and his sidekick, Pokey the horse, got their big break on 'The Howdy Doody Show' in the 1950s. That led to their own TV show, 'The Adventures of Gumby.' Gumby enjoyed a revival in the 1980s, when comedian Eddie Murphy played him as a cigar-smoking bad-attitude case in a series of 'Saturday Night Live' skits. Clokey's death comes six months after the death of the voice of Gumby, Dallas McKennon."