Malcolm Atterbury
Actor
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
The Birds
as Deputy Al Malone 1963
Rio Bravo
as Jake 1959
The Chase
as Mr. Reeves 1966
The Longest Yard
as Bit Part (uncredited) 1974
Seven Days in May
as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited) 1964
Emperor of the North
as Hogger 1973
Advise & Consent
as Senator Tom August 1962
Man Without a Star
as Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited) 1955
Wild River
as Sy Moore 1960
Crime of Passion
as Police Officer Spitz 1956
From the Terrace
as George Fry 1960
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Charles Rivers 1957
Hawaii
as Gideon Hale 1966
Hell Bent for Leather
as A.C. Gamble 1960
How to Make a Monster
as Security Guard Richards 1958
Blood of Dracula
as Lt. Dunlap 1957