
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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Perry Mason
TV • 1957

Perry Mason
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Perry Mason
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Perry Mason
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Bonanza
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Lassie
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The Andy Griffith Show
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The Fugitive
TV • 1963

The Fugitive
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The Fugitive
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The Twilight Zone
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The Twilight Zone
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Quincy, M.E.
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Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957

Have Gun, Will Travel
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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The Virginian
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