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Malcolm Atterbury

Actor
Died August 16, 1992 (85 years)
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
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Bonanza
  • Dragnet (1951)
  • Route 66
  • Blood of Dracula
  • How to Make a Monster
  • From Hell to Texas
  • High School Big Shot
  • Fury
  • The Westerner
  • The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  • Four Star Playhouse
  • Frontier Doctor
Known For
  • Emperor of the North
  • Wild River
  • Blood of Dracula
  • How to Make a Monster
  • Summer and Smoke
  • High School Big Shot
  • The Learning Tree
  • Crime in the Streets
  • Hell Bent for Leather
  • Fury at Showdown
  • Cattle King
  • The Westerner
  • Badman's Country
  • The High Cost of Loving
  • The Dalton Girls
  • Frontier Doctor
  • Stranger at My Door
  • Philip Marlowe

Filmography

2000
All About 'the Birds' · as Deputy Al Malone In Clips From The Movie 'the Birds'
1976
Quincy, M.E. (TV Series)
1974
The Towering Inferno · as Jeweler
1974
The Longest Yard · as Bit Part (uncredited)
1974
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Brewster Davenport
1974
Apple's Way (TV Series)
1973
1973
Police Story (TV Series)
1972
The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) · as Mr. Arbogast
1972
The Rookies (TV Series)
1970
The Odd Couple (TV Series) · as Pop
1970
The Bold Ones: The Senator (TV Series) · as Senator James Hastings
1969
The Learning Tree · as Silas Newhall
1967
Gentle Ben (TV Series) · as Winthrop Foster
1967
1967
1967
The Invaders (TV Series) · as Judge Simonson
1966
Hawaii · as Gideon Hale
1966
Run, Buddy, Run (TV Series)
1966
The Chase · as Mr. Reeves
1965
Laredo (TV Series)
1965
The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Fritz Shroeder
1965
Run for Your Life (TV Series) · as Rudy Fowler
1965
A Man Called Shenandoah (TV Series) · as Judge Albert Evans
1965
Joy in the Morning · as Willis J. Calamus
1964
Profiles in Courage (TV Series) · as Timothy Felson
1964
Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Thaddeus Hill
1964
Kentucky Jones (TV Series) · as Judge Bleeker
1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) · as Commander Jamison
1964
Seven Days in May · as Horace The White House Physician (uncredited)
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Doctor Gregory
1963
Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) · as Simpson
1963
The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Sheriff
1963
Cattle King · as Abe Clevenger (homesteader)
1963
The Birds · as Deputy Al Malone
1962
The Virginian (TV Series) · as John Wallace
1962
Advise & Consent · as Senator Tom August
1961
Summer and Smoke · as Rev. Winemiller
1961
Window on Main Street (TV Series) · as Old Man
1961
Father of the Bride (TV Series) · as Game Warden
1961
Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Asa Mcconnell
1961
Hazel (TV Series) · as Mr. Bullock
1961
87th Precinct (TV Series) · as Triangle Chief Of Police
1961
The Defenders (TV Series) · as Dr. Bell
1961
The Asphalt Jungle (TV Series)
1960
Harrigan and Son (TV Series) · as Judge
1960
The Law and Mr. Jones (TV Series) · as Joe Mcgowan
1960
Route 66 (TV Series)
1960
Stagecoach West (TV Series) · as Reverend Joshua Jessop
1960
The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) · as Luke Jensen
1960
The Westerner (TV Series) · as Andy
1960
My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Kincaid
1960
The Tall Man (TV Series)
1960
From the Terrace · as George Fry
1960
Wild River · as Sy Moore
1960
Hell Bent for Leather · as A.c. Gamble
1959
Shotgun Slade (TV Series) · as Marshal Jake Pardee
1959
1959
Hawaiian Eye (TV Series)
1959
Philip Marlowe (TV Series)
1959
Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) · as Lars Olafson
1959
The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Prof. Eliot
1959
The June Allyson Show (TV Series) · as Ira Stevens
1959
Bonanza (TV Series) · as Dixie
1959
North by Northwest · as Man At Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
1959
Blue Denim · as Marriage License Clerk
1959
Rio Bravo · as Jake
1959
The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Judge Simon Willard
1959
Black Saddle (TV Series) · as Clyde Dawson
1959
Rawhide (TV Series) · as Will Morton
1958
The High Cost of Loving · as Harry Lessing (uncredited)
1958
Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Ben Henderson
1958
77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
1958
Days of Wine and Roses · as Jim Hungerford
1958
The Texan (TV Series)
1958
Rescue 8 (TV Series) · as Jed Kimbrough
1958
Peter Gunn (TV Series)
1958
Badman's Country · as Buffalo Bill Cody
1958
How to Make a Monster · as Security Guard Richards
1958
No Time for Sergeants · as Bus Driver With Applications
1958
From Hell to Texas · as Hotel Clerk
1958
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958) (TV Series) · as Oliver Bates
1957
The Dalton Girls · as Sewell, The Banker
1957
Blood of Dracula · as Lt. Dunlap
1957
Casey Jones (TV Series) · as Migs
1957
Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) · as Spud
1957
The Court of Last Resort (TV Series) · as Joel Sheldon
1957
Trackdown (TV Series)
1957
Goodyear Theatre (TV Series) · as Marv
1957
The Restless Gun (TV Series) · as Gopher Martin
1957
Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Alfred Needham
1957
The Thin Man (TV Series) · as Harry Huppley
1957
M Squad (TV Series) · as Whitey Stone
1957
Wagon Train (TV Series) · as John Bixby
1957
Sugarfoot (TV Series) · as Abel Crotty
1957
1957
Valerie · as Sheriff
1957
Fury at Showdown · as Norris
1957
I Was a Teenage Werewolf · as Charles Rivers
1957
Hot Summer Night · as Jim - Newspaper Man On Street
1957
Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Horse Thief
1957
Slander · as Byron
1957
Whirlybirds (TV Series) · as Conrad
1956
1956
Crime of Passion · as Police Officer Spitz
1956
Reprisal! · as Luther Creel
1956
Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Ben
1956
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Col. Schwimmer
1956
1956
Broken Arrow (TV Series) · as Matt Newman
1956
Circus Boy (TV Series) · as Prosecutor
1956
The Sheriff of Cochise (TV Series) · as Armitage
1956
1956
Dakota Incident · as Desk Clerk At Belvidere Hotel
1956
Johnny Concho · as Milo, Mail Dispatcher
1956
The Rawhide Years · as Luke--Paymaster
1956
Storm Center · as Frank
1956
Crime in the Streets · as Mr. Mcallister
1956
A Day of Fury · as Gaunt Farmer
1956
Stranger at My Door · as Rev. Hastings
1956
Miracle in the Rain · as Special Delivery Man
1956
The Steel Jungle · as Mailman
1956
The Lone Ranger · as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
1956
State Trooper (TV Series)
1955
Fury (TV Series) · as Steve Cruthers
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as The Blackmailer
1955
Frontier (TV Series) · as Donley
1955
Cheyenne (TV Series) · as Armstrong
1955
Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Glover
1955
Man Without a Star · as Fancy Joe Toole
1955
Stage 7 (TV Series) · as Jim Stephens
1955
TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) · as Joe Barron
1954
The Lineup (TV Series) · as Big Dan Mcgran
1954
Medic (TV Series) · as Cast
1954
Lassie (TV Series)
1954
Dragnet · as Lee Reinhard
1953
The Man Behind the Badge (TV Series) · as Kelley
1953
The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Ed Humphrey
1953
You Are There (TV Series) · as George Cubine
1953
General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Joe Hicks
1952
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre (TV Series) · as Mr. Jackson
1952
Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Conductor
1952
Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) · as Lt. Keough
1951
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Peleg Sunderland
1951
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Johnson
1950
Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance (TV Series) · as Cast
1950
The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Potter
1948
Studio One (TV Series) · as Jeweler

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