Malcolm Atterbury

Acting

Malcolm Atterbury

Born 1907-02-20 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 41 films

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 Teen…

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Filmography

41 films
Hawaii poster

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and…

Hawaii

★ 6.3 1966

The Chase poster

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

The Chase

★ 7.1 1966

Cattle King poster

A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.

Cattle King

★ 6.3 1963

The Birds poster

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly atta…

The Birds

★ 7.5 1963

Wild River poster

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the buildi…

Wild River

★ 7.2 1960