Actor
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 (1 ...

Known For
Acting
1974 -- The Longest Yard | Bit Part (uncredited)
1973 -- Emperor of the North | Hogger
1969 -- The Learning Tree | Silas Newhall
1966 -- Hawaii | Gideon Hale
1966 -- The Chase | Mr. Reeves
1964 -- Seven Days in May | Horace the White House Physician (uncredited)
1963 -- Cattle King | Abe Clevenger (Homesteader)
1963 -- The Birds | Deputy Al Malone
1962 -- Advise & Consent | Senator Tom August
1961 -- Summer and Smoke | Rev. Winemiller
1960 -- From the Terrace | George Fry
1960 -- Wild River | Sy Moore
1960 -- Hell Bent for Leather | A.C. Gamble
1959 -- High School Big Shot | Mr. Grant
1959 -- North by Northwest | Man at Prairie Crossing (uncredited)
1959 -- A Marriage of Strangers | Mr. Emhardt
1959 -- Rio Bravo | Jake
1958 -- Old Man | The Doctor
1958 -- Days of Wine and Roses | Jim Hungerford
1958 -- Bomber's Moon | Col. Schwimmer
1958 -- Badman's Country | Buffalo Bill Cody
1958 -- How to Make a Monster | Security Guard Richards
1958 -- A Town Has Turned to Dust | Jenkins
1958 -- The High Cost of Loving | Harry Lessing (uncredited)
1957 -- The Dalton Girls | Sewell, the banker
1957 -- Blood of Dracula | Lt. Dunlap
1957 -- Valerie | Sheriff
1957 -- I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Charles Rivers
1957 -- Fury at Showdown | Norris
1956 -- Crime of Passion | Police Officer Spitz
1956 -- Toward the Unknown | Hank
1956 -- Dakota Incident | Desk Clerk at Belvidere Hotel
1956 -- Crime in the Streets | Mr. McAllister
1956 -- Stranger at My Door | Rev. Hastings
1956 -- The Steel Jungle | Mailman
1956 -- The Lone Ranger | Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
1954 -- Dragnet | Lee Reinhard
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