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
Known For
Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
North by Northwest
Deputy Al Malone
The Birds
Jenkins
A Town Has Turned to Dust
Police Officer Spitz
Crime of Passion
Hogger
Emperor of the North
Mr. McAllister
Crime in the Streets
George Fry
From the Terrace
Gideon Hale
Hawaii
Lee Reinhard
Dragnet
Senator Tom August
Advise & Consent
Sy Moore
Wild River
Hank
Toward the Unknown
Sheriff
Valerie
Rev. Winemiller
Summer and Smoke
Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger
Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
Cattle King
Security Guard Richards
How to Make a Monster
Rev. Hastings
Stranger at My Door
Mr. Grant
High School Big Shot
Norris
Fury at Showdown
Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
Seven Days in May
Sewell, the banker
The Dalton Girls
Bit Part (uncredited)
The Longest Yard
Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
Dakota Incident
Col. Schwimmer
Bomber's Moon
Mr. Emhardt
A Marriage of Strangers
Lt. Dunlap
Blood of Dracula
Mailman
The Steel Jungle
The Doctor
Old Man
Mr. Reeves
The Chase
Silas Newhall
The Learning Tree
A.C. Gamble
Hell Bent for Leather
Charles Rivers
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Buffalo Bill Cody
Badman's Country
Jake
Rio Bravo
Harry Lessing (uncredited)
The High Cost of Loving
Jim Hungerford
Days of Wine and Roses
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
37
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-02-20
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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