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Sheb Wooley

Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs including the 1958 hit rock and roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater"[1] and under the name Ben Colder the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2". As an actor, he portrayed Cletus Summers, the principal of Hickory High School and assistant coach in the 1986 film Hoosiers; Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon; Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales, and scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide.

Known For: Acting

Born: Erick, Oklahoma, USA, 1921-04-10

Died: 2003-09-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Rocky Mountain	Kay Rawlins	57
2	1951	Apache Drums	Townsman (uncredited)	62
3	1951	Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison		64
4	1951	Little Big Horn	Quince	62
5	1951	Fort Worth	Outrider (uncredited)	67
6	1951	Distant Drums	Pvt. Jessup	62
7	1952	High Noon	Ben Miller	77
8	1952	Hellgate	Neill Price	67
9	1952	Cattle Town	Miller	67
10	1952	Toughest Man in Arizona		0
11	1952	The Lusty Men	Gambler with Buster (uncredited)	66
12	1953	The Charge at Feather River	Pvt. Wilhelm's Scream (archive sound) (uncredited)	56
13	1953	Texas Bad Man	Mack	0
14	1954	The Boy from Oklahoma	Pete Martin	52
15	1954	Rose Marie	Corporal	40
16	1954	Arrow In The Dust	Trooper (uncredited)	58
17	1954	Johnny Guitar	Posseman (uncredited)	74
18	1954	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Undetermined Role (uncredited)	72
19	1955	Man Without a Star	Latigo	65
20	1956	Giant	Gabe Target	76
21	1956	The Black Whip	Bill Lassater	0
22	1957	Trooper Hook	Townsman	66
23	1957	Ride a Violent Mile	Jonathan Long	40
24	1958	Terror in a Texas Town	Baxter	67
25	1960	Sergeant Rutledge	Screaming Trooper (archive sound) (uncredited)	71
26	1963	PT 109	Edmund Drewitch's Scream (archive sound) (uncredited)	59
27	1963	Hootenanny Hoot	Self	50
28	1966	Country Boy		0
29	1967	The War Wagon	Snyder	68
30	1976	The Outlaw Josey Wales	Travis Cobb	74
31	1980	The Big Brawl	Screaming Thug	59
32	1984	The Dollmaker	Mr. Kendrick	75
33	1985	Silverado	Cavalry Sergeant	70
34	1986	Uphill All the Way	Anson Sudro	43
35	1986	Hoosiers	Cletus	70
36	1988	Purple People Eater	Harvey Skitters	48
37	1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Screaming Soldiers (archive sound) (uncredited)	79
38	1995	A Goofy Movie	Concert Crewmember's Scream (archive sound) (uncredited)	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1949	The Lone Ranger	Don Wyman	67
3	1949	The Lone Ranger	Hatton	67
4	1949	The Lone Ranger	Tex	67
5	1951	The Adventures of Kit Carson		53
6	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		68
7	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Luke McGuire (uncredited)	68
8	1955	Cheyenne		58
9	1955	My Friend Flicka		57
10	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Brock	55
11	1957	Sugarfoot	Pete Martin	48
12	1957	Maverick	Sheriff	68
13	1957	Trackdown		64
14	1959	Rawhide	Pete Nolan	72
15	1968	The Mod Squad		63
16	1970	The Young Rebels		45
17	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Billy Ray Parker	75