AKA Shelby F. Wooley

Born: 10-Apr-1921
Birthplace: Erick, OK
Died: 17-Sep-2003
Location of death: Nashville, TN [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Leukemia

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Musician

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Purple People Eater

Known for 1958's number-one hit (six weeks) The Purple People Eater ("It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater") and the theme for Hee-Haw. He worked as a sound extra for the 1951 movie Distant Drums, and is probably the voice of that movie's "Wilhelm Scream", a memorable yell that has been recycled as a stock sound effect in dozens of movies from Them! to the Tom Cruise remake of War of the Worlds.