Malcolm Atterbury

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-02-20 (85 years old)

Deathday

1992-08-16

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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). Atterbu...

Acting

1959

North by Northwest

as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)

1963

The Birds

as Deputy Al Malone

1956

Crime of Passion

as Police Officer Spitz

1956

Crime in the Streets

as Mr. McAllister

1960

From the Terrace

as George Fry

1966

Hawaii

as Gideon Hale

1954

Dragnet

as Lee Reinhard

1962

Advise & Consent

as Senator Tom August

1960

Wild River

as Sy Moore

1957

Valerie

as Sheriff

1961

Summer and Smoke

as Rev. Winemiller

1956

The Lone Ranger

as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)

1963

Cattle King

as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)

1958

How to Make a Monster

as Security Guard Richards

1956

Stranger at My Door

as Rev. Hastings

1959

1957

1964

Seven Days in May

as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)

1957

The Dalton Girls

as Sewell, the banker

1974

The Longest Yard

as Bit Part (uncredited)

1956

Dakota Incident

as Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel

1958

Bomber's Moon

as Col. Schwimmer

1959

1957

Blood of Dracula

as Lt. Dunlap

1956

1958

Old Man

as The Doctor

1966

The Chase

as Mr. Reeves

1969

The Learning Tree

as Silas Newhall

1960

Hell Bent for Leather

as A.C. Gamble

1957

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

as Charles Rivers

1958

Badman's Country

as Buffalo Bill Cody

1959

Rio Bravo

as Jake

1958

The High Cost of Loving

as Harry Lessing (uncredited)

1958

Days of Wine and Roses

as Jim Hungerford

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