Sheb Wooley

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.

  • Title: Sheb Wooley
  • Popularity: 6.487
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-04-10
  • Place of Birth: Erick, Oklahoma, USA
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Sheb Wooley Movies

  • 1952
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    High Noon

    High Noon

    7.7 1952 HD

    Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...

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  • 1956
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    Giant

    Giant

    7.6 1956 HD

    Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She...

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  • 1986
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    Hoosiers

    Hoosiers

    7.1 1986 HD

    Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a...

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  • 1985
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    Silverado

    Silverado

    6.961 1985 HD

    Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends...

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  • 1967
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    The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

    6.9 1967 HD

    An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the...

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  • 1984
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    The Dollmaker

    The Dollmaker

    7.5 1984 HD

    During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly...

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  • 1952
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    Toughest Man in Arizona

    Toughest Man in Arizona

    1 1952 HD

    Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring...

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  • 1954
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    Arrow In The Dust

    Arrow In The Dust

    5.9 1954 HD

    Director Lesley Selander's 1954 western stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully, Lee Van Cleef and Jimmy Wakely.

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  • 1957
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    Trooper Hook

    Trooper Hook

    6.6 1957 HD

    When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez...

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  • 1951
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    Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

    Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

    6.4 1951 HD

    A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

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  • 1951
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    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    6.6 1951 HD

    Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush.

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  • 1958
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    Terror in a Texas Town

    Terror in a Texas Town

    6.7 1958 HD

    Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be...

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  • 1952
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    Cattle Town

    Cattle Town

    6.7 1952 HD

    The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.

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  • 1980
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    The Big Brawl

    The Big Brawl

    5.9 1980 HD

    A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

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  • 1951
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    Distant Drums

    Distant Drums

    6.2 1951 HD

    After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to...

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  • 1957
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    Ride a Violent Mile

    Ride a Violent Mile

    4 1957 HD

    A cowboy stampedes a Rebel plot with a Union spy posing as a dance-hall girl.

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  • 1988
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    Purple People Eater

    Purple People Eater

    4.9 1988 HD

    A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are...

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  • 1963
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    Hootenanny Hoot

    Hootenanny Hoot

    5 1963 HD

    The marriage of television director Ted Glover and television producer A.G. Bannister has gone on the rocks because she has permitted her career to...

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  • 1954
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    The Boy from Oklahoma

    The Boy from Oklahoma

    5.2 1954 HD

    A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

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  • 1976
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    The Outlaw Josey Wales

    The Outlaw Josey Wales

    7.4 1976 HD

    After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him -...

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  • 1960
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    Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge

    7.1 1960 HD

    Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior...

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  • 1954
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    Rose Marie

    Rose Marie

    4 1954 HD

    Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian...

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  • 1953
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    Texas Bad Man

    Texas Bad Man

    1 1953 HD

    Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the...

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  • 1954
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    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

    7.2 1954 HD

    In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

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  • 1952
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    The Lusty Men

    The Lusty Men

    6.6 1952 HD

    Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers...

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  • 1989
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    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    7.9 1989 HD

    In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval...

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  • 1956
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    The Black Whip

    The Black Whip

    1 1956 HD

    A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to kidnap the new governor of the state. If all goes...

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  • 1952
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    Hellgate

    Hellgate

    6.7 1952 HD

    A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.

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  • 1955
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    Man Without a Star

    Man Without a Star

    6.5 1955 HD

    A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.

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  • 1986
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    Uphill All the Way

    Uphill All the Way

    4.8 1986 HD

    Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers.

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  • 1966
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    Country Boy

    Country Boy

    1 1966 HD

    Singer Link Byrd, Jr. wants to join the Grand Ole Opry, and hooks up with a slippery-slick agent named "Fats" Jackson. Jackson makes him a star but...

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  • 1950
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    Rocky Mountain

    Rocky Mountain

    5.7 1950 HD

    A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army...

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  • 1951
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    Fort Worth

    Fort Worth

    6.6 1951 HD

    Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for...

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  • 1953
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    The Charge at Feather River

    The Charge at Feather River

    5.6 1953 HD

    A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.

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  • 1955
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    5.8 1955 HD

    Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first...

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1957
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    Trackdown

    Trackdown

    6.4 1957 HD

    Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this...

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  • 1968
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    The Mod Squad

    The Mod Squad

    6.5 1968 HD

    The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23,...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1955
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    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

    6.7 1955 HD

    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour...

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  • 1970
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    The Young Rebels

    The Young Rebels

    4.5 1970 HD

    Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew...

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  • 1957
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    Sugarfoot

    Sugarfoot

    4.8 1957 HD

    Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner...

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1951
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    The Adventures of Kit Carson

    The Adventures of Kit Carson

    5.3 1951 HD

    The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by...

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  • 1955
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    My Friend Flicka

    My Friend Flicka

    5.7 1955 HD

    My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming at the turn of the 20th century. The...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1949
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    The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

    6.8 1949 HD

    The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

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  • 1949
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    The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

    6.8 1949 HD

    The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.5 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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