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). 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

Known For

North by Northwest

as Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)

The Birds

as Deputy Al Malone

Rio Bravo

as Jake

The Twilight Zone

as Prof. Eliot

The Twilight Zone

as Henry J. Fate

The Longest Yard

as Bit Part (uncredited)

The Chase

as Mr. Reeves

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as The blackmailer

Seven Days in May

as Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)

The Andy Griffith Show

as Luke Jensen