Malcolm Atterbury

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 (101 Appearances)

The McLean Stevenson Show

1976

Quincy, M.E.

1976

The Longest Yard

1974

Apple's Way

1974

Thicker than Water

1973

Emperor of the North

1973

Police Story

1973

The Rookies

1972

The Odd Couple

1970

The Learning Tree

1969

Judd for the Defense

1967

The Guns of Will Sonnett

1967

The Invaders

1967

Hawaii

1966

Run, Buddy, Run

1966

The Chase

1966

The F.B.I.

1965

Laredo

1965

Run for Your Life

1965

Daniel Boone

1964

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964

Seven Days in May

1964

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963

The Fugitive

1963

Cattle King

1963

The Birds

1963

The Virginian

1962

Advise & Consent

1962

Summer and Smoke

1961

Straightaway

1961

Dr. Kildare

1961

The Asphalt Jungle

1961

Route 66

1960

The Andy Griffith Show

1960

The Westerner

1960

The Tall Man

1960

From the Terrace

1960

Wild River

1960

Hell Bent for Leather

1960

High School Big Shot

1959

Hawaiian Eye

1959

Philip Marlowe

1959

Adventures in Paradise

1959

The Twilight Zone

1959

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1959

Bonanza

1959

North by Northwest

1959

A Marriage of Strangers

1959

Pete Kelly's Blues

1959

Rio Bravo

1959

Black Saddle

1959

Rawhide

1959

Old Man

1958

77 Sunset Strip

1958

Days of Wine and Roses

1958

The Texan

1958

Frontier Doctor

1958

Peter Gunn

1958

Bomber's Moon

1958

Badman's Country

1958

How to Make a Monster

1958

A Town Has Turned to Dust

1958

The High Cost of Loving

1958

The Dalton Girls

1957

Blood of Dracula

1957

Trackdown

1957

Alcoa Theatre

1957

The Restless Gun

1957

Perry Mason

1957

Sugarfoot

1957

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Valerie

1957

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

1957

Fury at Showdown

1957

Crime of Passion

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

Wire Service

1956

Toward the Unknown

1956

State Trooper

1956

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1956

Dakota Incident

1956

Johnny Concho

1956

Crime in the Streets

1956

Stranger at My Door

1956

The Steel Jungle

1956

The Lone Ranger

1956

Silent Fear

1956

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Gunsmoke

1955

Man Without a Star

1955

Lassie

1954

Dragnet

1954 Debut

Letter to Loretta

1953

General Electric Theater

1953

Cavalcade of America

1952

Four Star Playhouse

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Dragnet

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

Lux Video Theatre

1950

Studio One

1948
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