Malcolm Atterbury
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-02-20
Day of Death
1992-08-16 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Malcolm Atterbury
Biography
Malcolm MacLeod Atterbury (February 20, 1907 – August 16, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudevillian.
Atterbury is perhaps best known for his uncredited role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959), as the rural man who exclaims, "That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops!" Four years later, Atterbury appeared as the Deputy in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). He further appeared in such films as I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Crime of Passion (1957), Blue Denim (1959), Wild River (1960), Advise and Consent (1962), and Hawaii (1966). His last film was Emperor of the North Pole (1973).
Atterbury was married on February 6, 1937 to Ellen Ayres Hardies (1915–1994) of Amsterdam, New York, daughter of judge Charles E. Hardies Sr. and sister of Charles Hardies Jr., who later became Montgomery County district attorney.
He died in Beverly Hills of old age in 1992. CLR
Acting
(1974)
The Longest Yard
as Bit Part (uncredited)
(1973)
Emperor of the North
as Hogger
(1969)
The Learning Tree
as Silas Newhall
(1966)
The Chase
as Mr. Reeves
(1966)
Hawaii
as Gideon Hale
(1964)
Seven Days in May
as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
(1963)
The Birds
as Deputy Al Malone
(1963)
Cattle King
as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
(1962)
Advise & Consent
as Senator Tom August
(1961)
Summer and Smoke
as Rev. Winemiller
(1960)
Hell Bent for Leather
as A.C. Gamble
(1960)
Wild River
as Sy Moore
(1960)
From the Terrace
as George Fry
(1959)
North by Northwest
as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
(1959)
Rio Bravo
as Jake
(1959)
High School Big Shot
as Mr. Grant
(1959)
A Marriage of Strangers
as Mr. Emhardt
(1958)
Old Man
as The Doctor
(1958)
Badman's Country
as Buffalo Bill Cody
(1958)
Days of Wine and Roses
as Jim Hungerford
(1958)
How to Make a Monster
as Security Guard Richards
(1958)
The High Cost of Loving
as Harry Lessing (uncredited)
(1958)
Bomber's Moon
as Col. Schwimmer
(1958)
A Town Has Turned to Dust
as Jenkins
(1957)
Valerie
as Sheriff
(1957)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Charles Rivers
(1957)
The Dalton Girls
as Sewell, the banker
(1957)
Blood of Dracula
as Lt. Dunlap
(1957)
Fury at Showdown
as Norris
(1956)
The Lone Ranger
as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
(1956)
Crime of Passion
as Police Officer Spitz
(1956)
Dakota Incident
as Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
(1956)
Toward the Unknown
as Hank
(1956)
Johnny Concho
as Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
(1956)
Crime in the Streets
as Mr. McAllister
(1956)
Stranger at My Door
as Rev. Hastings
(1956)
The Steel Jungle
as Mailman
(1954)
Dragnet
as Lee Reinhard