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Malcolm Atterbury
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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 …
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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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Malcolm Atterbury's Filmography
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The Longest Yard
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Emperor of the North
as Hogger
The Learning Tree
as Silas Newhall
Hawaii
as Gideon Hale
The Chase
as Mr. Reeves
Seven Days in May
as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
Cattle King
as Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
The Birds
as Deputy Al Malone
Advise & Consent
as Senator Tom August
Summer and Smoke
as Rev. Winemiller
From the Terrace
as George Fry
Wild River
as Sy Moore
Hell Bent for Leather
as A.C. Gamble
High School Big Shot
as Mr. Grant
North by Northwest
as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
A Marriage of Strangers
as Mr. Emhardt
Rio Bravo
as Jake
Old Man
as The Doctor
Days of Wine and Roses
as Jim Hungerford
Bomber's Moon
as Col. Schwimmer
Badman's Country
as Buffalo Bill Cody
How to Make a Monster
as Security Guard Richards
A Town Has Turned to Dust
as Jenkins
The High Cost of Loving
as Harry Lessing (uncredited)
The Dalton Girls
as Sewell, the banker
No Poster
The Troublemakers
as Otis Gerrity
Blood of Dracula
as Lt. Dunlap
Valerie
as Sheriff
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Charles Rivers
Fury at Showdown
as Norris
Crime of Passion
as Police Officer Spitz
Toward the Unknown
as Hank
Dakota Incident
as Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
Johnny Concho
as Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
Crime in the Streets
as Mr. McAllister
Stranger at My Door
as Rev. Hastings
The Steel Jungle
as Mailman
The Lone Ranger
as Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
Silent Fear
as Dr. Vernon
Man Without a Star
as Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
Dragnet
as Lee Reinhard