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 ...

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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.

Oklahoma native Sheb Wooley, who played Pete Nolan in “Rawhide,” was just some other cast member she barely noticed. Decades later, Gould is Wooley’s biographer. The former Tulsan is the ...