Malcolm Atterbury
Malcolm Atterbury (born February 20, 1907 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † August 16, 1992 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American actor.
life and career
Malcolm Atterbury was born into a wealthy family to General Atterbury, the railroad president of Pennsylvania. He began his show career on the radio and was a member of a vocal quartet in the late 1920s. At times he was the program director of a radio station. In the mid-1930s, he traveled through Europe as a companion to boxer Tommy Loughran . Eventually Atterbury decided on an acting career and took lessons from the well-known theater actress Hilda Spong (1875-1955). Thanks to his fortune, Atterbury was able to finance his own summer theater for himself and the other acting students of Spong, of which he also worked as a director. Atterbury later owned two theaters in New York. Between 1963 and 1964 he played the role of Scanlon in the world premiere of the play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on Broadway .
From 1954 Atterbury appeared regularly as a supporting actor in film and television, by 1979 there were a total of almost 160 appearances. He also starred in two Alfred Hitchcock film classics : In The Invisible Third (1959) he played a man who waits for his bus between rural cornfields and meets Cary Grant ; In The Birds (1963) he played the sheriff of the small town that is attacked by the birds. Otherwise, Atterbury played particularly often in western films. On television, he has guest roles in numerous classics such as Bonanza , Twilight Zone, and The People of Shiloh Ranch . He had his last appearance in 1979 in an episode of Our Little Farm .
He was married from 1937 until his death in 1992 to the actress Ellen Atterbury (1915-1994), they had three children.
Filmography (selection)
- 1954: Large-scale raid (Dragnet)
- 1955: With a fist as hard as steel (Man without a Star)
- 1955–1958: Police report (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1955–1971: Smoking Colts (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 1956: Miracle in the Rain
- 1956: The Steel Jungle
- 1956: Unleashed Youth (Crime in the Streets)
- 1957: Deadly Scandal (Slander)
- 1957: That Was Murder, Mr. Doyle (Crime in Passion)
- 1957: Shotgun women (The Dalton Girls)
- 1957–1959: Playhouse 90 (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1957–1964: Perry Mason (TV series, 5 episodes)
- 1958: Shoot Back, Cowboy (From Hell to Texas)
- 1958: Company duds (No Time for Sergeants)
- 1959: The Invisible Third (North by Northwest)
- 1959: Rio Bravo (scenes cut)
- 1959/1962: Twilight Zone (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1959/1965: A Thousand Miles of Dust (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1959/1966: Bonanza (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1960: Wild River (Wild River)
- 1960: From the Terrace
- 1961: Summer and Smoke (Summer and Smoke)
- 1961: My Three Sons (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1962: Storm over Washington (Advice and Consent)
- 1963: The Birds (The Birds)
- 1963: Gunslingers of Wyoming (Cattle King)
- 1963: The People at Shiloh Ranch (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1964: Seven Days in May (Seven Days in May)
- 1966: Hawaii
- 1966: A Man Is Chased (The Chase)
- 1969: Hass (The Learning Tree)
- 1973: A train for two scoundrels (Emperor of the North)
- 1974: Flammendes Inferno (The Towering Inferno)
- 1974–1975: Apple's Way (TV series, 28 episodes)
- 1978: Quincy (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1979: Our Little Farm (TV series, 1 episode)
Web links
- Malcolm Atterbury in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Malcolm Atterbury in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Malcolm Atterbury in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malcolm Atterbury in the news archive at newspapers.com
- ↑ Malcolm Atterbury in the news archive at newspapers.com
- ^ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Internet Broadway Database
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Atterbury, Malcolm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1992 |
Place of death | Beverly Hills , California , United States |