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American character actor in many Westerns, Sheb Wooley was also a figure in country-western music. Born and raised in Oklahoma, he spent his youth as a cowhand. His musical ability led to radio and subsequently film work. He played minor supporting roles for a dozen years starting in 1950, including one of the Frank Miller gang in High Noon (1952). In 1958 he had a giant hit record with his own song "The Purple People Eater" (years later there was a movie made based on the song, Purple People Eater (1988)) and he followed it with a string of similar humorous country ditties, often recorded under the name Ben Colder. For a number of years he had a regular role as scout Pete Nolan on the hit TV series Rawhide (1959). He worked infrequently as an actor after that, concentrating on the music business.

I came out to Hollywood to become a singing cowboy but when I got here
in 1950 they didn&#39;t want any singing cowboys, even if you had your own
guitar. So I got into the other end of the cowboy business and played
mostly heavies in my film career.

[on how he got the idea for his &quot;Purple People Eater&quot; hit song] The Space Age
was upon us. Everyone was thinking about rockets and wondering if maybe
we would find people up there. A songwriter friend of mine told me his
son had come home from school with a joke about a people eater from
space. I wrote the song in a matter of minutes--just dashed it off as a
sort of afterthought.

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