Raymond Thomas Bailey

 Raymond Thomas Bailey (May 6, 1904 – April 15, 1980)

He was an actor on the Broadway stage, films, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies. In the early 1950s, Bailey was cast in many character roles in television series, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents,Tales of Tomorrow (episode "Ice from Space"), Frontier, Crusader, My Friend Flicka (episode "When Bugles Blow"), Gunsmoke (episodes "General Parsley Smith" & "The Big Con"), Tightrope, State Trooper, COronado 9, and Johnny Ringo. Other appearances were on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Private Secretary,Playhouse 90,Science Fiction Theatre The Rifleman, The Jack Benny Program, Yancy Derringer, Riverboat, Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Hennesey, The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, The Man and the Challenge, One Step Beyond, The Untouchables, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Tab Hunter Show, Pete and Gladys, The Donna Reed Show, Bachelor Father, Going My Way, and twice on Mister Ed. Bailey's film roles include playing a member of the board in Sabrina (1954) starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden; Mr. Benson in Picnic (1955) starring William Holden and Kim Novak; a doctor in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) starring James Stewart and Novak; a Colonel in No Time for Sergeants (1958) starring Andy Griffith, among others. After The Beverly Hillbillies went off the air in 1971, Bailey acted in a few less-noteworthy movie roles. Bailey died of a heart attack at age 75 in 1980.