He was a two-eyed, one-hit singing western movie actor

Sheb Wooley, the man who brought vengeance to Will Kane’s Hadleyville in High Noon and Coach Norman Dale to Hickory High School in Hoosiers, died Wednesday at the age of 82. A character actor in more than 30 films and numerous television appearances and a country-western singer, Wooley was best known for his novelty hit “Purple People Eater,” a No. 1 hit for 6 weeks in 1958.