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

Cast

North by Northwest

(Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited))

The Birds

(Deputy Al Malone)

A Town Has Turned to Dust

(Jenkins)

Crime of Passion

(Police Officer Spitz)

Emperor of the North

(Hogger)

Crime in the Streets

(Mr. McAllister)

From the Terrace

(George Fry)

Hawaii

(Gideon Hale)

Dragnet

(Lee Reinhard)

Advise & Consent

(Senator Tom August)

Wild River

(Sy Moore)

Toward the Unknown

(Hank)

Valerie

(Sheriff)

Summer and Smoke

(Rev. Winemiller)

The Lone Ranger

(Phineas Tripp (uncredited))

Cattle King

(Abe Clevenger (Homesteader))

How to Make a Monster

(Security Guard Richards)

Stranger at My Door

(Rev. Hastings)

High School Big Shot

(Mr. Grant)

Fury at Showdown

(Norris)

Seven Days in May

(Horace the White House Physician (uncredited))

The Dalton Girls

(Sewell, the banker)

The Longest Yard

(Bit Part (uncredited))

Dakota Incident

(Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel)

Bomber's Moon

(Col. Schwimmer)

A Marriage of Strangers

(Mr. Emhardt)

Blood of Dracula

(Lt. Dunlap)

The Steel Jungle

(Mailman)

Old Man

(The Doctor)

The Chase

(Mr. Reeves)

The Learning Tree

(Silas Newhall)

Hell Bent for Leather

(A.C. Gamble)

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

(Charles Rivers)

Badman's Country

(Buffalo Bill Cody)

Rio Bravo

(Jake)

The High Cost of Loving

(Harry Lessing (uncredited))

Days of Wine and Roses

(Jim Hungerford)

Johnny Concho

(Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited))

The Andy Griffith Show

(Luke Jensen)

77 Sunset Strip

Trackdown

The Rookies

Kraft Suspense Theatre

(Doctor Gregory)

The F.B.I.

(Howard J. Shelly)

The Odd Couple

(Pop)

Quincy, M.E.

Route 66

Gunsmoke

(Bird)

Dragnet

Perry Mason

(Sam Burris)

Studio One

(Jeweler)

Hawaiian Eye

General Electric Theater

(Joe Hicks)

Lassie

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(Peleg Sunderland)

The Twilight Zone

(Prof. Eliot)

Laredo

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(The blackmailer)

Run, Buddy, Run

Straightaway

Philip Marlowe

The Fugitive

(Sheriff Bilson)

Rawhide

(Will Morton)

Have Gun, Will Travel

Run for Your Life

(Rudy Fowler)

Daniel Boone

(Thaddeus Hill)

Police Story

The Fugitive

(Sheriff Mead)

The Virginian

(John Wallace)

Peter Gunn

Lux Video Theatre

(Potter)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

(Timson)

Apple's Way

Adventures in Paradise

(Lars Olafson)

Judd for the Defense

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Fugitive

(Sheriff)

Black Saddle

(Clyde Dawson)

Sugarfoot

(Abel Crotty)

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Frontier Doctor

Wire Service

(Gil Venton)

The Texan

Cavalcade of America

(Conductor)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

(Ben)

Thicker than Water

Pete Kelly's Blues

Dr. Kildare

(Asa McConnell)

State Trooper

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

(Ira Stevens)

Alcoa Theatre

(Spud)

The McLean Stevenson Show

The Asphalt Jungle

Letter to Loretta

(Ed Humphrey)

The Twilight Zone

(Henry J. Fate)

Wire Service

The F.B.I.

(Fritz Shroeder)

Rawhide

(Jarvis)

Gunsmoke

(Seldon)

Gunsmoke

(Liveryman)

Gunsmoke

(Jed Bates)

Gunsmoke

(Glover)

Gunsmoke

(Prof. Eliot)

Gunsmoke

(Duggan)

Gunsmoke

(Cob)

General Electric Theater

(Rev. Kinnaird)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

(Johnson)

Four Star Playhouse

(Lt. Keough)

Perry Mason

(Dennis Briggs)

Perry Mason

(Alfred Needham)

Perry Mason

(J. Maigret)

Perry Mason

(Dell Harper)

The Invaders

(Judge Simonson)

The Westerner

(Andy)

The Westerner

(Marshal Frank Dollar)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

(Commander Jamison)

The Restless Gun

(Gopher Martin)

Have Gun, Will Travel

(Sheriff)

Bonanza

(Dixie)

The Tall Man

(Jagger)

Run, Buddy, Run

(Mike Kellerman)