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Malcolm Atterbury

Feb 20, 1907 - Aug 16, 1992 (85 years old) in 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

Known For

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The Andy Griffith Show
Luke Jensen
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Lassie
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Ben
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Studio One
Jeweler
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Quincy, M.E.
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Have Gun, Will Travel
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Perry Mason
Sam Burris
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Dragnet
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Dr. Kildare
Asa McConnell
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Four Star Playhouse
Lt. Keough

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