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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 20, 1907
Died
August 16, 1992
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Malcolm Atterbury
0.7 Popularity
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
Known For
Credits
🎬
The McLean Stevenson Show
1976
5.0
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
The Longest Yard
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1974
6.7
🎬
Apple's Way
1974
6.3
🎬
Thicker than Water
1973
0.0
Emperor of the North
as Hogger
1973
6.7
Police Story
1973
6.9
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Odd Couple
as Pop
1970
7.8
The Learning Tree
as Silas Newhall
1969
6.7
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
The Invaders
as Judge Simonson
1967
6.8
Hawaii
as Gideon Hale
1966
6.3
Run, Buddy, Run
1966
7.0
Run, Buddy, Run
as Mike Kellerman
1966
7.0
The Chase
as Mr. Reeves
1966
7.1
The F.B.I.
as Howard J. Shelly
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Fritz Shroeder
1965
5.4
Laredo
1965
6.3
Run for Your Life
as Rudy Fowler
1965
7.2
Daniel Boone
as Thaddeus Hill
1964
7.0
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Commander Jamison
1964
7.7
Seven Days in May
as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
1964
7.3
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Doctor Gregory
1963
5.3
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Bilson
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Mead
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Sheriff
1963
7.2
Cattle King
as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
1963
6.2
The Birds
as Deputy Al Malone
1963
7.5
The Virginian
as John Wallace
1962
6.4
Advise & Consent
as Senator Tom August
1962
7.2
Summer and Smoke
as Rev. Winemiller
1961
6.5
Straightaway
1961
0.0
Dr. Kildare
as Asa McConnell
1961
5.5
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
5.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
The Andy Griffith Show
as Luke Jensen
1960
7.6
The Westerner
as Andy
1960
6.8
The Westerner
as Marshal Frank Dollar
1960
6.8
The Tall Man
as Jagger
1960
6.3
From the Terrace
as George Fry
1960
6.6
Wild River
as Sy Moore
1960
7.2
Hell Bent for Leather
as A.C. Gamble
1960
6.2
High School Big Shot
as Mr. Grant
1959
3.3
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
Philip Marlowe
1959
5.0
Adventures in Paradise
as Lars Olafson
1959
5.7
The Twilight Zone
as Prof. Eliot
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Henry J. Fate
1959
8.5
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Ira Stevens
1959
6.3
Bonanza
as Dixie
1959
7.5
North by Northwest
as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
1959
8.0
A Marriage of Strangers
as Mr. Emhardt
1959
0.0
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Pete Kelly's Blues
1959
0.0
Rio Bravo
as Jake
1959
7.8
Black Saddle
as Clyde Dawson
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as Will Morton
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Jarvis
1959
7.2
Old Man
as The Doctor
1958
0.0
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
Days of Wine and Roses
as Jim Hungerford
1958
7.0
The Texan
1958
5.5
Frontier Doctor
1958
5.0
Peter Gunn
1958
6.4
Bomber's Moon
as Col. Schwimmer
1958
0.0
Badman's Country
as Buffalo Bill Cody
1958
5.4
How to Make a Monster
as Security Guard Richards
1958
5.6
A Town Has Turned to Dust
as Jenkins
1958
0.0
The High Cost of Loving
as Harry Lessing (uncredited)
1958
5.7
The Dalton Girls
as Sewell, the banker
1957
5.3
Blood of Dracula
as Lt. Dunlap
1957
4.7
Trackdown
1957
6.4
Alcoa Theatre
as Spud
1957
6.5
The Restless Gun
as Gopher Martin
1957
3.0
Perry Mason
as Sam Burris
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Dennis Briggs
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Alfred Needham
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as J. Maigret
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Dell Harper
1957
7.7
Sugarfoot
as Abel Crotty
1957
4.8
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Sheriff
1957
7.3
Valerie
as Sheriff
1957
4.1
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Charles Rivers
1957
4.8
Fury at Showdown
as Norris
1957
5.4
Crime of Passion
as Police Officer Spitz
1956
6.1
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Ben
1956
6.0
Wire Service
as Gil Venton
1956
0.0
Wire Service
1956
0.0
Toward the Unknown
as Hank
1956
5.6
🎬
State Trooper
1956
5.0
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
Dakota Incident
as Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
1956
6.5
Johnny Concho
as Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
1956
3.7
Crime in the Streets
as Mr. McAllister
1956
6.0
Stranger at My Door
as Rev. Hastings
1956
6.4
The Steel Jungle
as Mailman
1956
5.1
The Lone Ranger
as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
1956
6.1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as The blackmailer
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Bird
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Seldon
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Jed Bates
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Liveryman
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Glover
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Prof. Eliot
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Duggan
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Cob
1955
6.6
Lassie
1954
6.1
Dragnet
as Lee Reinhard
1954
6.1
Letter to Loretta
as Ed Humphrey
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Joe Hicks
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Rev. Kinnaird
1953
6.4
Cavalcade of America
as Conductor
1952
3.5
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Lt. Keough
1952
6.7
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Peleg Sunderland
1951
8.6
Dragnet
1951
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Timson
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Johnson
1951
7.2
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Potter
1950
6.3
Studio One
as Jeweler
1948
5.0