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Malcolm Atterbury
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Actor Born: 1907 in Philadelphia, PA Death: August 23, 1992 in Beverly Hills, CA 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),... Full Biography
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