Malcolm Atterbury

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 Hitchcocks North by Northwest 1959 as the rural man who exclaims That planes dustin crops where there aint no crops Four years later Atterbury appeared as the Deputy in Hitchcocks 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 19151994 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