NASHVILLE (AP) — Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82. Wooley suffered from ...

Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the pop novelty song "The Purple People Eater," died yesterday (Sept. 16) in Nashville. He was 82. Wooley had suffered from… ...

Sheb Wooley, who menaced Gary Cooper in “High Noon,” played the trail scout on TV’s “Rawhide” and scored one of the biggest novelty recording hits of the 1950s with “The Purple People Eater,” has died ...

NASHVILLE, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Actor, singer, musician, comedian Sheb Wooley whoose career spanned 7 decades in Hollywood and Nashville died Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn., of leukemia. He was 82. His last ...

Performer Sheb Wooley died Tuesday in Nashville, according to a publicist’s statement. He had leukemia. Wooley was 82. Known to TV and film viewers as an original cast member of “Hee Haw” and ...

Sheb Wooley, who has died from leukaemia aged 82, was an actor, songwriter and singer who appeared in numerous western films and television series, including High Noon and Rawhide. But his biggest ...

Sheb Wooley, American country singer and a character actor in Hollywood Westerns, died in Nashville, Tennessee, yesterday at the age of 82, his wife said. Wooley was diagnosed with leukaemia back in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns such as High Noon who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82.Wooley suffered from ...

Shelby F. Wooley (Sheb Wooley), actor, singer and musician: born Erick, Oklahoma 10 April 1921; married first Beverly Addison (one daughter), second Linda Dotson (one daughter); died Nashville, ...