Sheb Wooley

Sheb Wooley (1921 - 2003)
Sheb had a million selling single issued in 1958, “The Purple People Eater”, which topped the US charts for 6 weeks.
==Film Deaths==
*Little Big Horn (1951) [Quince]: Shot to death by Wally Cassell as a mercy kill, after Sheb was tortured and left to bake in the sun by Sioux warriors.
*Distant Drums (1951) [Pvt. Jessup]: Eaten by an alligator.
*Bugles in the Afternoon (1952) [Gen. George Armstrong Custer]: Killed (off-screen) during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
*High Noon (1952) [Ben Miller]: Gunned down in the street by Gary Cooper. (Thanks to Brian)
*Them! (1954) [Private/Sailor]: Playing a dual role that is a bit, the Sailor is grabbed and taken by a giant ant and the Solider is crushed by a fallen wood in a storm drain as he and several Soldiers are looking for the giant ants. 
*The War Wagon (1967) [Snyder]: 
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