Sheb Wooley

Date of Birth: 10 Apr 1921
Country: USA
Biography: Character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater."
Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Actor)
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A man (Hackman) gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past. (MGM)
Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Jackson makes a deal with Lomax, the man who shot him 5 years ago to join forces against Pierce and steal a large gold shipment... (imdb)
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 being evicted by their greedy landlord. (imdb)
Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers are getting treated and starts to side with them, despite their introduction of the barbed wire he loathes. (imdb)
A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land. (imdb)
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety. (imdb)
After his wife dies during childbirth, a doctor, who was on his way to California, stops in a midwestern town to bury her. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs afoul with some evil cattle ranchers. (imdb)
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 take precedence over romance. The horror of it all! Complications also arise because of a romance between Ted's agent, Steve Laughlin and a performer, Billy-Joe Henley, with a touring Hootenanny group. (imdb)
After closing down his film studio, producer Robert L. Lippert took charge of Regal Films, a subsidiary of 20th Century-Fox designed to turn out low-budget, non-CinemaScope productions. One of the first of these films was the modest western The Black Whip. Colleen Gray, Angie Dickinson, Adele Mara and Dorothy Schuyler play four women of questionable morals who conspire to help a notorious outlaw escape the law. (allrovi.com)
Rawhide (1959) - TV Series
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. (imdb)
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. The last straw is when Matt Davis feels compelled to go on a new foray on his wedding night; his bride Liza (just call her Lysistrata) takes teacher Cassie's advice and organizes a marital strike to make the men-folk stop their nonsense.
Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers.
The Dollmaker (1984) - TV Movie
During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family.
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 ruins his reputation along the way.
Cowhand Jeff Donner meets Susan Crowley, a spy for the Union in the Civil War, and gets dragged into her espionage ring that is out to foil the South's attempts to break the blockade keeping them from obtaining food and supplies. The trek leads to Mexico.
Cavalry Patrol (1956) - TV Movie
Lieutenant Johnny Reardon and his motley company of troopers defend miles of Arizona frontier against Apaches and cutthroats.
- Incident of the Buffalo Soldier (1961) - Season 3
- Incident of the Slavemaster (1960) - Season 3
In Arizona, Marshal Landry and captured outlaw Girard find three survivors of a wagon train massacre but, later, Girard escapes custody and robs stagecoaches with his gang, prompting Landry and his posse to give chase.