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
All Movies (40)
- The Longest Yard1974 · as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Emperor of the North1973 · as Hogger
- The Learning Tree1969 · as Silas Newhall
- Hawaii1966 · as Gideon Hale
- The Chase1966 · as Mr. Reeves
- Seven Days in May1964 · as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
- Cattle King1963 · as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
- The Birds1963 · as Deputy Al Malone
- Advise & Consent1962 · as Senator Tom August
- Summer and Smoke1961 · as Rev. Winemiller
- From the Terrace1960 · as George Fry
- Wild River1960 · as Sy Moore
- Hell Bent for Leather1960 · as A.C. Gamble
- High School Big Shot1959 · as Mr. Grant
- North by Northwest1959 · as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
- A Marriage of Strangers1959 · as Mr. Emhardt
- Rio Bravo1959 · as Jake
- Old Man1958 · as The Doctor
- Days of Wine and Roses1958 · as Jim Hungerford
- Bomber's Moon1958 · as Col. Schwimmer
- Badman's Country1958 · as Buffalo Bill Cody
- How to Make a Monster1958 · as Security Guard Richards
- A Town Has Turned to Dust1958 · as Jenkins
- The High Cost of Loving1958 · as Harry Lessing (uncredited)
- The Dalton Girls1957 · as Sewell, the banker
- Blood of Dracula1957 · as Lt. Dunlap
- Valerie1957 · as Sheriff
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf1957 · as Charles Rivers
- Fury at Showdown1957 · as Norris
- Crime of Passion1956 · as Police Officer Spitz
- Toward the Unknown1956 · as Hank
- Dakota Incident1956 · as Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
- Johnny Concho1956 · as Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Crime in the Streets1956 · as Mr. McAllister
- Stranger at My Door1956 · as Rev. Hastings
- The Steel Jungle1956 · as Mailman
- The Lone Ranger1956 · as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
- Silent Fear1956 · as Dr. Vernon
- Man Without a Star1955 · as Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
- Dragnet1954 · as Lee Reinhard
All TV Shows (85)
- The McLean Stevenson Show1976
- Quincy, M.E.1976
- Apple's Way1974
- Thicker than Water1973 · as Jonas Paine
- Police Story1973
- The Rookies1972
- The Odd Couple1970 · as Pop
- Judd, for the Defense1967
- The Guns of Will Sonnett1967
- The Invaders1967 · as Judge Simonson
- Run, Buddy, Run1966
- Run, Buddy, Run1966 · as Mike Kellerman
- The F.B.I.1965 · as Howard J. Shelly
- The F.B.I.1965 · as Fritz Shroeder
- Laredo1965
- Run for Your Life1965 · as Rudy Fowler
- Daniel Boone1964 · as Thaddeus Hill
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea1964 · as Commander Jamison
- Kraft Suspense Theatre1963 · as Doctor Gregory
- The Fugitive1963 · as Sheriff Bilson
- The Fugitive1963 · as Sheriff Mead
- The Fugitive1963 · as Sheriff
- The Virginian1962 · as John Wallace
- Straightaway1961
- Dr. Kildare1961 · as Asa McConnell
- The Asphalt Jungle1961
- Route 661960
- Stagecoach West1960 · as Reverend Joshua Jessop
- The Andy Griffith Show1960 · as Luke Jensen
- The Westerner1960 · as Andy
- The Westerner1960 · as Marshal Frank Dollar
- The Tall Man1960 · as Jagger
- Hawaiian Eye1959
- Philip Marlowe1959
- Adventures in Paradise1959 · as Lars Olafson
- The Twilight Zone1959 · as Prof. Eliot
- The Twilight Zone1959 · as Henry J. Fate
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson1959 · as Ira Stevens
- Bonanza1959 · as Dixie
- Pete Kelly's Blues1959
- Black Saddle1959 · as Clyde Dawson
- Rawhide1959 · as Will Morton
- Rawhide1959 · as Jarvis
- 77 Sunset Strip1958
- The Texan1958
- Frontier Doctor1958
- Peter Gunn1958
- Trackdown1957
- Alcoa Theatre1957 · as Spud
- The Restless Gun1957 · as Gopher Martin
- Perry Mason1957 · as Sam Burris
- Perry Mason1957 · as Dennis Briggs
- Perry Mason1957 · as Alfred Needham
- Perry Mason1957 · as J. Maigret
- Perry Mason1957 · as Dell Harper
- Sugarfoot1957 · as Abel Crotty
- Have Gun, Will Travel1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel1957 · as Sheriff
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Ben
- Wire Service1956 · as Gil Venton
- Wire Service1956
- State Trooper1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie1956
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as The blackmailer
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Bird
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Seldon
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Liveryman
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Jed Bates
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Glover
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Prof. Eliot
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Duggan
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Cob
- Lassie1954
- Lassie1954 · as Judge Baxter
- Letter to Loretta1953 · as Ed Humphrey
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Joe Hicks
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Rev. Kinnaird
- Cavalcade of America1952 · as Conductor
- Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Lt. Keough
- Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Peleg Sunderland
- Dragnet1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Timson
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Johnson
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Potter
- Studio One1948 · as Jeweler