Clokey was born in . He began making animations in 1953, beginning with Gumbasia: an experimental film created as a parody of Disney's Fantasia. From Gumbasia sprung Gumby: the green Plasticine model whom Clokey is most famous for creating.
Gumby animations began in the late 1950s, they continued right through to Clokey's death in 2010. The character became really famous in 1982, when Eddie Murphy voiced the character in a number of Saturday Night Live sketches. It was this rise in fame that gave way to Gumby: The Movie in 1995. It is possible that Gumby inspired the, slightly later, Morph animations by Peter Lord - a great many themes are brought through from Gumby into that character.
The significance of Clokey is his early experiments with clay animation. Though he definately wasn't the first to use clay to animate characters; - he was a pioneer who, without him, Claymation would not be the same today.
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