Malcolm Atterbury

Malcolm Atterbury (85)

1907-02-20 - 1992-08-16 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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

On Movies

  • The Longest Yard
  • Emperor of the North
  • The Learning Tree
  • Hawaii
  • The Chase
  • Seven Days in May
  • Cattle King
  • The Birds
  • Advise & Consent
  • Summer and Smoke
  • From the Terrace
  • Wild River
  • Hell Bent for Leather
  • High School Big Shot
  • North by Northwest
  • A Marriage of Strangers
  • Rio Bravo
  • Old Man
  • Days of Wine and Roses
  • Bomber's Moon
  • Badman's Country
  • How to Make a Monster
  • A Town Has Turned to Dust
  • The High Cost of Loving
  • The Dalton Girls
  • Blood of Dracula
  • Valerie
  • I Was a Teenage Werewolf
  • Fury at Showdown
  • Crime of Passion
  • Toward the Unknown
  • Dakota Incident
  • Crime in the Streets
  • Stranger at My Door
  • The Steel Jungle
  • The Lone Ranger
  • Dragnet

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