Malcolm Atterbury
Acting • Born 1907-02-20 – Died 1992-08-16
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
122 credits
North by Northwest
Movie • 1959
Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
The Birds
Movie • 1963
Deputy Al Malone
A Town Has Turned to Dust
Movie • 1958
Jenkins
Crime of Passion
Movie • 1956
Police Officer Spitz
Emperor of the North
Movie • 1973
Hogger
Crime in the Streets
Movie • 1956
Mr. McAllister
From the Terrace
Movie • 1960
George Fry
Hawaii
Movie • 1966
Gideon Hale
Dragnet
Movie • 1954
Lee Reinhard
Advise & Consent
Movie • 1962
Senator Tom August
Wild River
Movie • 1960
Sy Moore
Toward the Unknown
Movie • 1956
Hank
Valerie
Movie • 1957
Sheriff
Summer and Smoke
Movie • 1961
Rev. Winemiller
The Lone Ranger
Movie • 1956
Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
Cattle King
Movie • 1963
Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
How to Make a Monster
Movie • 1958
Security Guard Richards
Stranger at My Door
Movie • 1956
Rev. Hastings
High School Big Shot
Movie • 1959
Mr. Grant
Fury at Showdown
Movie • 1957
Norris
Seven Days in May
Movie • 1964
Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
The Dalton Girls
Movie • 1957
Sewell, the banker
The Longest Yard
Movie • 1974
Bit Part (uncredited)
Dakota Incident
Movie • 1956
Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
Bomber's Moon
Movie • 1958
Col. Schwimmer
A Marriage of Strangers
Movie • 1959
Mr. Emhardt
Blood of Dracula
Movie • 1957
Lt. Dunlap
The Steel Jungle
Movie • 1956
Mailman
Old Man
Movie • 1958
The Doctor
The Chase
Movie • 1966
Mr. Reeves
The Learning Tree
Movie • 1969
Silas Newhall
Hell Bent for Leather
Movie • 1960
A.C. Gamble
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Movie • 1957
Charles Rivers
Badman's Country
Movie • 1958
Buffalo Bill Cody
Rio Bravo
Movie • 1959
Jake
The High Cost of Loving
Movie • 1958
Harry Lessing (uncredited)
Days of Wine and Roses
Movie • 1958
Jim Hungerford
Johnny Concho
Movie • 1956
Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
Man Without a Star
Movie • 1955
Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Luke Jensen
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Trackdown
TV • 1957
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Doctor Gregory
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Howard J. Shelly
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Pop
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Route 66
TV • 1960
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bird
Dragnet
TV • 1951
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Sam Burris
Studio One
TV • 1948
Jeweler
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Joe Hicks
Lassie
TV • 1954
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Peleg Sunderland
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Prof. Eliot
Laredo
TV • 1965
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
The blackmailer
Run, Buddy, Run
TV • 1966
Straightaway
TV • 1961
Philip Marlowe
TV • 1959
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Sheriff Bilson
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Will Morton
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Rudy Fowler
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Thaddeus Hill
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Sheriff Mead
The Virginian
TV • 1962
John Wallace
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Potter
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Timson
Apple's Way
TV • 1974
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Lars Olafson
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Sheriff
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Clyde Dawson
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Abel Crotty
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
Frontier Doctor
TV • 1958
Wire Service
TV • 1956
Gil Venton
The Texan
TV • 1958
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Conductor
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Ben
Thicker than Water
TV • 1973
Pete Kelly's Blues
TV • 1959
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Asa McConnell
State Trooper
TV • 1956
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Ira Stevens
Alcoa Theatre
TV • 1957
Spud
The McLean Stevenson Show
TV • 1976
The Asphalt Jungle
TV • 1961
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ed Humphrey
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Henry J. Fate
Wire Service
TV • 1956
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Fritz Shroeder
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jarvis
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Seldon
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Liveryman
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jed Bates
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Glover
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Prof. Eliot
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Duggan
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Cob
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Rev. Kinnaird
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Johnson
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Lt. Keough
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Dennis Briggs
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Alfred Needham
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
J. Maigret
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Dell Harper
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Judge Simonson
The Westerner
TV • 1960
Andy
The Westerner
TV • 1960
Marshal Frank Dollar
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV • 1964
Commander Jamison
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Gopher Martin
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Sheriff
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Dixie
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Jagger
Run, Buddy, Run
TV • 1966
Mike Kellerman