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
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- Perry Mason (1957) as Sam Burris
- Perry Mason (1957) as Dennis Briggs
- Perry Mason (1957) as Alfred Needham
- Perry Mason (1957) as J. Maigret
- Perry Mason (1957) as Dell Harper
- Lassie (1954)
- Lassie (1954) as Judge Baxter
- The Fugitive (1963) as Sheriff Bilson
- The Fugitive (1963) as Sheriff Mead
- The Fugitive (1963) as Sheriff
- The Andy Griffith Show (1960) as Luke Jensen
- Bonanza (1959) as Dixie
- Dragnet (1951)
- Run for Your Life (1965) as Rudy Fowler
- The Virginian (1962) as John Wallace
- Quincy, M.E. (1976)
- The Twilight Zone (1959) as Prof. Eliot
- The Twilight Zone (1959) as Henry J. Fate
- Daniel Boone (1964) as Thaddeus Hill
- Peter Gunn (1958)
- Rawhide (1959) as Will Morton
- Rawhide (1959) as Jarvis
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) as Commander Jamison
- Four Star Playhouse (1952) as Lt. Keough