Malcolm Atterbury

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: Acting

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1907-02-20

Died: 1992-08-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Dragnet	Lee Reinhard	62
2	1956	The Lone Ranger	Phineas Tripp (uncredited)	61
3	1956	The Steel Jungle	Mailman	53
4	1956	Stranger at My Door	Rev. Hastings	66
5	1956	Crime in the Streets	Mr. McAllister	60
6	1956	Dakota Incident	Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel	64
7	1956	Toward the Unknown	Hank	56
8	1956	Crime of Passion	Police Officer Spitz	62
9	1957	Fury at Showdown	Norris	54
10	1957	I Was a Teenage Werewolf	Charles Rivers	46
11	1957	Valerie	Sheriff	41
12	1957	Blood of Dracula	Lt. Dunlap	48
13	1957	The Dalton Girls	Sewell, the banker	53
14	1958	The High Cost of Loving	Harry Lessing (uncredited)	57
15	1958	A Town Has Turned to Dust	Jenkins	0
16	1958	How to Make a Monster	Security Guard Richards	56
17	1958	Badman's Country	Buffalo Bill Cody	54
18	1958	Bomber's Moon	Col. Schwimmer	0
19	1958	Days of Wine and Roses	Jim Hungerford	70
20	1958	Old Man	The Doctor	0
21	1959	Rio Bravo	Jake	78
22	1959	A Marriage of Strangers	Mr. Emhardt	0
23	1959	North by Northwest	Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)	80
24	1959	High School Big Shot	Mr. Grant	32
25	1960	Hell Bent for Leather	A.C. Gamble	62
26	1960	Wild River	Sy Moore	73
27	1960	From the Terrace	George Fry	67
28	1961	Summer and Smoke	Rev. Winemiller	67
29	1962	Advise & Consent	Senator Tom August	72
30	1963	The Birds	Deputy Al Malone	75
31	1963	Cattle King	Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)	60
32	1964	Seven Days in May	Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)	73
33	1966	The Chase	Mr. Reeves	71
34	1966	Hawaii	Gideon Hale	64
35	1969	The Learning Tree	Silas Newhall	69
36	1973	Emperor of the North	Hogger	67
37	1974	The Longest Yard	Bit Part (uncredited)	67

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Jeweler	47
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Potter	60
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Timson	70
4	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Johnson	70
5	1951	Dragnet		65
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Peleg Sunderland	87
7	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Lt. Keough	61
8	1952	Cavalcade of America	Conductor	35
9	1953	General Electric Theater	Joe Hicks	60
10	1953	General Electric Theater	Rev. Kinnaird	60
11	1953	Letter to Loretta	Ed Humphrey	62
12	1954	Lassie		61
13	1955	Gunsmoke	Bird	66
14	1955	Gunsmoke	Seldon	66
15	1955	Gunsmoke	Liveryman	66
16	1955	Gunsmoke	Jed Bates	66
17	1955	Gunsmoke	Glover	66
18	1955	Gunsmoke	Prof. Eliot	66
19	1955	Gunsmoke	Duggan	66
20	1955	Gunsmoke	Cob	66
21	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	The blackmailer	78
22	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		37
23	1956	State Trooper		50
24	1956	Wire Service	Gil Venton	0
25	1956	Wire Service		0
26	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Ben	55
27	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
28	1957	Sugarfoot	Abel Crotty	48
29	1957	Perry Mason	Sam Burris	77
30	1957	Perry Mason	Dennis Briggs	77
31	1957	Perry Mason	Alfred Needham	77
32	1957	Perry Mason	J. Maigret	77
33	1957	Perry Mason	Dell Harper	77
34	1957	Alcoa Theatre	Spud	62
35	1957	Trackdown		64
36	1958	Peter Gunn		65
37	1958	Frontier Doctor		50
38	1958	The Texan		55
39	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
40	1959	Rawhide	Will Morton	72
41	1959	Rawhide	Jarvis	72
42	1959	Black Saddle	Clyde Dawson	60
43	1959	Pete Kelly's Blues		0
44	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Ira Stevens	63
45	1959	The Twilight Zone	Prof. Eliot	84
46	1959	The Twilight Zone	Henry J. Fate	84
47	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Lars Olafson	57
48	1959	Philip Marlowe		50
49	1959	Hawaiian Eye		52
50	1960	The Tall Man		63
51	1960	The Westerner	Andy	67
52	1960	The Westerner	Marshal Frank Dollar	67
53	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Luke Jensen	76
54	1960	Route 66		64
55	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
56	1961	Dr. Kildare	Asa McConnell	54
57	1961	Straightaway		0
58	1962	The Virginian	John Wallace	64
59	1963	The Fugitive	Sheriff Bilson	72
60	1963	The Fugitive	Sheriff Mead	72
61	1963	The Fugitive	Sheriff	72
62	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Doctor Gregory	53
63	1964	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Commander Jamison	77
64	1964	Daniel Boone	Thaddeus Hill	69
65	1965	Run for Your Life	Rudy Fowler	72
66	1965	Laredo		63
67	1965	The F.B.I.	Howard J. Shelly	56
68	1965	The F.B.I.	Fritz Shroeder	56
69	1966	Run, Buddy, Run		0
70	1967	The Invaders	Judge Simonson	68
71	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
72	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		63
73	1970	The Odd Couple	Pop	78
74	1972	The Rookies		69
75	1973	Police Story		71
76	1973	Thicker than Water		0
77	1974	Apple's Way		60
78	1976	Quincy, M.E.		75
79	1976	The McLean Stevenson Show		50