Malcolm Atterbury

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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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malcolm Atterbury in the news archive at newspapers.com
  2. ↑ Malcolm Atterbury in the news archive at newspapers.com
  3. ^ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Internet Broadway Database
personal data
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