Malcolm Atterbury

• Born: 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Died: Aug 23, 1992 in Beverly Hills, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '50s-'60s
• Major Genres: Western, Drama
• Career Highlights: Summer and Smoke, Emperor of the North, How to Make a Monster
• First Major Screen Credit: How to Make a Monster (1958)

Biography

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, All Movie Guide

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