Malcolm Atterbury
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 Longest Yard
1974
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Emperor of the North
1973
as Hogger
The Learning Tree
1969
as Silas Newhall
Hawaii
1966
as Gideon Hale
The Chase
1966
as Mr. Reeves
Seven Days in May
1964
as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
Cattle King
1963
as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
The Birds
1963
as Deputy Al Malone
Advise & Consent
1962
as Senator Tom August
Summer and Smoke
1961
as Rev. Winemiller
From the Terrace
1960
as George Fry
Wild River
1960
as Sy Moore
Hell Bent for Leather
1960
as A.C. Gamble
High School Big Shot
1959
as Mr. Grant
North by Northwest
1959
as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
A Marriage of Strangers
1959
as Mr. Emhardt
Rio Bravo
1959
as Jake
Old Man
1958
as The Doctor
Days of Wine and Roses
1958
as Jim Hungerford
Bomber's Moon
1958
as Col. Schwimmer
Badman's Country
1958
as Buffalo Bill Cody
How to Make a Monster
1958
as Security Guard Richards
A Town Has Turned to Dust
1958
as Jenkins
The High Cost of Loving
1958
as Harry Lessing (uncredited)