Malcolm Atterbury
Malcolm Atterbury | |
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | February 20, 1907
Died | August 16, 1992 | (aged 85)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1954–1979 |
Spouse |
Ellen Ayres Hardies (m. 1937) |
Children | 3 |
Malcolm MacLeod Atterbury (February 20, 1907 – August 16, 1992) was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudevillian.
Early years and education
A native of Philadelphia, Atterbury was the son of Malcolm MacLeod, Sr. and Arminia Clara (Rosengarten) MacLeod. He had an older sister, Elizabeth, a twin brother, Norman, and a younger brother, George Rosengarten MacLeod. After his father's death his mother remarried to General William Wallace Atterbury,[1] president of Pennsylvania Railroad. Through this marriage, he had a half-brother, William Wallace Atterbury Jr.
He graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.[2]
In the mid-1930s, Atterbury decided to pursue a career in drama. He enrolled at Hilda Spong's Dramatic School using an assumed name. Later, after revealing his true identity, he went on to "finance a summer theater for the Hilda Spong Players at Cape May, and they, in turn, asked him to be their managing director."[3]
Career
Radio
In 1928, Atterbury was the bass singer in a quartet that sang on WLIT in Philadelphia.[4] In 1930, he became the program director of a radio station in Philadelphia.[1] He went on to become business manager of WHAT.[2]
Theatre
Atterbury was a devoted theatre actor. He owned and operated two theatres in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the Tamarack Playhouse in Lake Pleasant, New York and the Albany Playhouse Co. in Albany.[5] He also appeared on Broadway in the original cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as Scanlon.
Film
Atterbury is perhaps best known for his uncredited role in
Television
Atterbury made frequent appearances on television. He was cast in five episodes of CBS's murder mystery series Perry Mason during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Three times he played the murderer. He played Sam Burris in the 1957 episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner".
His guest-starring roles included appearances on
He had a regular role as Grandfather Aldon in the 1974–75 CBS television family drama, Apple's Way.
Personal life
Atterbury was married on February 6, 1937 to Ellen Ayres Hardies (1915–1994) of Amsterdam, New York, daughter of judge Charles E. Hardies Sr. and sister of Charles Hardies Jr., who later became Montgomery County district attorney.[2]
Filmography
- Dragnet (1954) - Lee Reinhard
- Man Without a Star (1955) - Fancy Joe Toole (uncredited)
- The Rawhide Years (1955) - Luke, Paymaster (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 1 Episode 27: "Help Wanted") as the Blackmailer
- Silent Fear (1956) - Dr. Vernon
- Gunsmoke (1956) - (twice) Seldon & Liveryman
- The Lone Ranger (1956) - Phineas Tripp (uncredited)
- Frontier (1956) Season 1, Episode 19 The Assassin as Donley
- The Steel Jungle (1956) - Mailman
- Miracle in the Rain (1956) - Special Delivery Man (uncredited)
- Stranger at My Door (1956) - Reverend Hastings
- A Day of Fury (1956) - Gaunt Farmer (uncredited)
- Crime in the Streets (1956) - Mr. McAllister
- Dakota Incident (1956) - Bartender / Desk Clerk
- Johnny Concho (1956) - Milo, Mail Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Storm Center (1956) - Frank (uncredited)
- Toward the Unknown (1956) - Hank - Bell Technical Representative
- Reprisal! (1956) - Luther Creel (uncredited)
- Crime of Passion (1957) - Police Officer Spitz
- Slander(1957) - Byron (uncredited)
- Hot Summer Night (1957) - Jim - Newspaper Man on Street (uncredited)
- Fury at Showdown (1957) - Norris
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) - Charles Rivers
- Valerie (1957) - Sheriff
- Blood of Dracula (1957) - Lieutenant Dunlap
- The Walter Winchell File "The Witness" (1957) - Major Frank Spears
- The Dalton Girls (1957) - Mr. Sewell, the Bank Manager
- Perry Mason (1957 TV series) (1957) (Season 1 Episode 7 "The Case of the Angry Mourner") - Sam Burris
- Too Much, Too Soon (1958) - Older Attendant (scenes deleted)
- The High Cost of Loving (1958) - Harry Lessing (uncredited)
- From Hell to Texas (1958) - Hotel Clerk
- No Time for Sergeants(1958) - Bus Driver with Applications (uncredited)
- How to Make a Monster (1958) - Security Guard Richards
- Badman's Country (1958) - Buffalo Bill Cody
- Rio Bravo (1959) - Jake (Stage Driver) (scenes deleted)
- ’’The Twilight Zone’’ (1959 TV series 1, episode 3 ‘Mr. Denton on Doomsday’) - Henry J. Fate
- High School Big Shot (1959) - Mr. Grant
- North by Northwest (1959) - Man at prairie crossing (uncredited)
- Blue Denim (1959) - Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
- Hell Bent for Leather (1960) - Gamble
- Wild River (1960) - Sy Moore
- From the Terrace (1960) - George Fry
- Summer and Smoke (1961) - Reverend Winemiller
- Advise & Consent (1962) - Senator Tom August
- The Birds (1963) - Deputy Al Malone
- Cattle King (1963) - Abe Clevenger
- Seven Days in May (1964) - Horace - White House Physician (uncredited)
- The Fugitive (1964 TV series 2, episode 3 ‘Man on a String’) -Sheriff Mead
- Joy in the Morning (1965) - Willis J. Calamus (uncredited)
- The Fugitive (1966 ‘Stroke of Genius’, season 3, episode 20) - Sheriff Bilson
- The Chase (1966) - Mr. Reeves
- Hawaii (1966) - Gideon Hale
- The Hardy Boys’‘ ‘The Mystery of the Chinese Junk’
(1967) - Clams Daggett
- The Learning Tree (1969) - Silas Newhall
- Emperor of the North(1973) - Hogger
- The Towering Inferno (1974) - Jeweler (uncredited)
- Little House on the Prairie (1979) - Brewster Davenport
References
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- ^ Variety, May 12, 1948, p. 56
External links
- Malcolm Atterbury at IMDb
- Malcolm Atterbury at AllMovie
- Malcolm Atterbury at the TCM Movie Database
- Malcolm Atterbury at the Internet Broadway Database