Malcolm Atterbury
- Birthday
- Feb 20, 1907
Bio: American actor Malcolm Atterbury may have been allowed more versatility on stage, but so far as TV was concerned he was the quintessential grouchy grandfather and/or frontier snake-oil peddler. Atterbury was in fact cast in the latter capacity twice by that haven of middle-aged character players The Twilight Zone. He was the purveyor of an elixir which induced… More Bio: American actor Malcolm Atterbury may have been allowed more versatility on stage, but so far as TV was concerned he was the quintessential grouchy grandfather and/or frontier snake-oil peddler. Atterbury was in fact cast in the latter capacity twice by that haven of middle-aged character players The Twilight Zone. He was the purveyor of an elixir which induced invulnerability in 1959's "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and a 19th century huckster who nearly sets a town on fire in "No Time Like the Past" (1963). Atterbury enjoyed steadier work as the supposedly dying owner of a pickle factory in the 1973 sitcom Thicker Than Water, and as Ronny Cox's grandfather on the 1974 Waltons clone Apple's Way. Malcolm Atterbury's best-known film role was one for which he received no screen credit: he was the friendly stranger who pointed out the crop-duster to Cary Grant in North By Northwest (1959), observing ominously that the plane was "dustin' where they're aren't any crops." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Valerie (2007)
- Actor
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
- Jeweler
- 74%
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The Longest Yard (1974)
- Actor
- 81%
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Emperor of the North Pole (Emperor of the North) (1973)
- Hogger
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The Learning Tree (1969)
- Silas Newhall
- 73%
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Malcolm Atterbury Videos
North By Northwest
3 minutes 15 seconds
The Birds
1 minutes 56 seconds
The Towering Inferno
2 minutes 30 seconds
Bravo
2 minutes 41 seconds
The Longest Yard: Lockdown Edition
1 minutes 23 seconds
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