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
Acted in 100
1970s
- 1976
- 1974
Apple's Way
Grandfather Aldon · 28 episodes
- 1973
Emperor of the North
Hogger
- 1972
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
- 1967
- 1966
Run, Buddy, Run
Mike Kellerman · 1 episode
- 1965
- 1964
- 1963
Cattle King
Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
- 1962
Advise & Consent
Senator Tom August
- 1961
Summer and Smoke
Rev. Winemiller
Straightaway
TV
The Asphalt Jungle
TV
- 1960
From the Terrace
George Fry
Wild River
Sy Moore
Hell Bent for Leather
A.C. Gamble
1950s
- 1959
High School Big Shot
Mr. Grant
Philip Marlowe
TV
A Marriage of Strangers
Mr. Emhardt
- 1958
Old Man
The Doctor
Frontier Doctor
TV
Bomber's Moon
Col. Schwimmer
Badman's Country
Buffalo Bill Cody
A Town Has Turned to Dust
Jenkins
The High Cost of Loving
Harry Lessing (uncredited)
- 1957
The Dalton Girls
Sewell, the banker
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Charles Rivers
Fury at Showdown
Norris
- 1956
Toward the Unknown
Hank
Dakota Incident
Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
Johnny Concho
Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
Crime in the Streets
Mr. McAllister
Stranger at My Door
Rev. Hastings
The Steel Jungle
Mailman
- 1955
Man Without a Star
Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
- 1954
Dragnet
Lee Reinhard
- 1953
General Electric Theater
Joe Hicks, Rev. Kinnaird · 1 episode
- 1952
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Peleg Sunderland · 1 episode
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Timson, Johnson · 1 episode
- 1950
1940s
- 1948
