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Malcolm Atterbury

Malcolm Atterbury

Actor · 1907 – 1992 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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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  • Movie8.0

    North by Northwest

    1959 · 4.7K votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Birds

    1963 · 4.6K votes

  • Movie7.8

    Rio Bravo

    1959 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Longest Yard

    1974 · 340 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Chase

    1966 · 338 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Seven Days in May

    1964 · 237 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Emperor of the North

    1973 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Lone Ranger

    1956 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Man Without a Star

    1955 · 125 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Hell Bent for Leather

    1960 · 37 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Advise & Consent

    1962 · 129 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Wild River

    1960 · 108 votes

  • Movie4.8

    I Was a Teenage Werewolf

    1957 · 58 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Crime of Passion

    1956 · 57 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Valerie

    1957 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Cattle King

    1963 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Silent Fear

    1956 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Hawaii

    1966 · 56 votes

  • Movie5.7

    How to Make a Monster

    1958 · 30 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.6

    From the Terrace

    1960 · 57 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie5.9

    Toward the Unknown

    1956 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Summer and Smoke

    1961 · 29 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 140 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV7.5

    Quincy, M.E.

    1976 · 123 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV6.3

    Lassie

    1954 · 74 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV7.3

    Rawhide

    1959 · 50 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV6.7

    Route 66

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV6.5

    Dragnet

    1951 · 36 votes

  • TV7.5

    The Bob Newhart Show

    1972 · 66 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV7.1

    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Rookies

    1972 · 22 votes

  • TV7.8

    The Odd Couple

    1970 · 69 votes

  • TV7.2

    77 Sunset Strip

    1958 · 26 votes