Malcolm Atterbury
Born: 1907-02-20 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1992-08-16
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
1974
- The Longest Yard as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Apple's Way
1973
- Police Story
- Emperor of the North as Hogger
- Thicker than Water as Jonas Paine
1972
1970
- The Odd Couple as Pop
1969
- The Learning Tree as Silas Newhall
1967
- The Invaders as Judge Simonson
- Judd, for the Defense
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
1966
- Run, Buddy, Run
- The Chase as Mr. Reeves
- Hawaii as Gideon Hale
1965
- The F.B.I. as Howard J. Shelly
- Run for Your Life as Rudy Fowler
- Laredo
1964
- Daniel Boone as Thaddeus Hill
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Commander Jamison
- Seven Days in May as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
1963
- The Fugitive as Sheriff Bilson
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Doctor Gregory
- The Birds as Deputy Al Malone
- Cattle King as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
1962
- The Virginian as John Wallace
- Advise & Consent as Senator Tom August
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Asa McConnell
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Straightaway
- Summer and Smoke as Rev. Winemiller
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Luke Jensen
- Route 66
- The Tall Man as Jagger
- Stagecoach West as Reverend Joshua Jessop
- The Westerner as Andy
- Wild River as Sy Moore
- From the Terrace as George Fry
- Hell Bent for Leather as A.C. Gamble
1959
- Bonanza as Dixie
- The Twilight Zone as Prof. Eliot
- Rawhide as Will Morton
- Hawaiian Eye
- Adventures in Paradise as Lars Olafson
- Black Saddle as Clyde Dawson
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Ira Stevens
- Rio Bravo as Jake
- North by Northwest as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
- Philip Marlowe
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- A Marriage of Strangers as Mr. Emhardt
- High School Big Shot as Mr. Grant
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Peter Gunn
- The Texan
- Frontier Doctor
- How to Make a Monster as Security Guard Richards
- Bomber's Moon as Col. Schwimmer
- Old Man as The Doctor
- Badman's Country as Buffalo Bill Cody
- The High Cost of Loving as Harry Lessing (uncredited)
- Days of Wine and Roses as Jim Hungerford
- A Town Has Turned to Dust as Jenkins
1957
- Perry Mason as Sam Burris
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Sugarfoot as Abel Crotty
- Trackdown
- Alcoa Theatre as Spud
- The Restless Gun as Gopher Martin
- Valerie as Sheriff
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf as Charles Rivers
- Blood of Dracula as Lt. Dunlap
- Fury at Showdown as Norris
- The Dalton Girls as Sewell, the banker
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Ben
- State Trooper
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Wire Service as Gil Venton
- The Lone Ranger as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
- Crime of Passion as Police Officer Spitz
- Toward the Unknown as Hank
- Crime in the Streets as Mr. McAllister
- Dakota Incident as Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
- The Steel Jungle as Mailman
- Johnny Concho as Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Stranger at My Door as Rev. Hastings
- Silent Fear as Dr. Vernon
1955
- Gunsmoke as Bird
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as The blackmailer
- Man Without a Star as Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Ed Humphrey
- General Electric Theater as Joe Hicks
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Lt. Keough
- Cavalcade of America as Conductor
1951
- Dragnet
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Peleg Sunderland
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Timson
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Potter
1948
- Studio One as Jeweler