Malcolm Atterbury profile
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Malcolm Atterbury

20th February 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Acting

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

40 Movies 62 TV Shows 102 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Hawaii 10th October 1966 as Gideon Hale
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Old Man 20th November 1958 as The Doctor
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Dragnet 4th September 1954 as Lee Reinhard
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Lassie 12th September 1954 as Judge Baxter