Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raymond Thomas Bailey (May 6, 1904 – April 15, 1980) was an American 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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Strongest Man in the World
1975
as Regent Burns
Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged ...

Herbie Rides Again
1974
as Lawyer
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
as Admiral Olmstead
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...

From the Terrace
1960
as Mr. Eugene St.John
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his ca...

The Gallant Hours
1960
as Vandergrift
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. nava...

Wake Me When It's Over
1960
as Gen. Weigang
The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's j...

Al Capone
1959
as Lawyer Brancato
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny To...

I Want to Live!
1958
as San Quentin Warden
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

No Time for Sergeants
1958
as Base Colonel
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?

King Creole
1958
as Mr. Evans
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. S...

The Lineup
1958
as Philip Dressler
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

The Space Children
1958
as Dr. Wahrman
A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the chil...

Vertigo
1958
as Scottie's Doctor
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming danger...

Lafayette Escadrille
1958
as Amos J. Walker
A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.
Underwater Warrior
1958
as Adm. Ashton
Based upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its...

Darby's Rangers
1958
as Brig. Gen. W.A. Wise
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalio...

Band of Angels
1957
as Mr. Stuart
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and...

The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957
as Doctor Thomas Silver
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches ta...

The Great American Pastime
1956
as George Carruthers
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problem...

The Girl He Left Behind
1956
as General
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David...

I've Lived Before
1956
as Joseph Hackett, Federal Airways
Seeing a certain woman makes an airline pilot think he is a reincarnated World War I pilot.

Congo Crossing
1956
as Peter Mannering
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Eur...
Johnny Moccasin
1956
as Pete Cooper
Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre.

Outside the Law
1956
as Philip Bormann
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.

A Ticket for Thaddeus
1956
A Polish refugee and new citizen gets involved in a slight car accident, but he doesn't fully understand American life, and believes he will be sent t...

Time Table
1956
as Sam Hendricks
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.

Tarantula
1955
as Dr. Townsend
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, ...

Picnic
1955
as Mr. Benson
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a for...

The Return of Jack Slade
1955
as Professor
To redeem his father's wrongdoings, Ericson joins the law to fight outlaws.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955
as Judge Fitzgerald (uncredited)
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but u...
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial...

Sabrina
1954
as Member of the Board (uncredited)
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for...
All I Need Is a Conference!
1954
as Russell West, Design Engineer
American Industrial Film produced by General Electric. A businessman tries to get everyone he needs together to address an issue.

The Kangaroo Kid
1950
as Quinn
A 19th-century San Francisco detective named Tex Kinnane is sent "Down Under" to nab shyster lawyer Vincent Moller. Several comparisons are made betw...

The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
as Gendarme
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

The Male Animal
1942
as Reporter on Porch (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten...

A Man Betrayed
1941
as Amato Henchman (uncredited)
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is ac...

You, the People
1940
as Bailey Henchman
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the cu...

I Love You Again
1940
as First Man Greeting Wilson in Pottery Office (uncredited)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Florian
1940
as White-haired Soldier
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

Island of Doomed Men
1940
as Mystery Killer (uncredited)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Gangs of Chicago
1940
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

Black Friday
1940
as Louis Devore
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon,...

The Green Hornet
1940
as Mr. West (uncredited)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

Invisible Stripes
1939
as Bookie (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

The Roaring Twenties
1939
as 2nd Ex-Con (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl...

Sabotage
1939
as (uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson,...

Flight at Midnight
1939
as Bill Hawks
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Huss...

Each Dawn I Die
1939
as Convict (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re...

They All Come Out
1939
as Hughie (uncredited)
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime...

Coast Guard
1939
as First Officer (uncredited)
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the l...

I Stole a Million
1939
as Cabby (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Hell's Kitchen
1939
as Whitey
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the i...

Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939
as Stanley
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwa...

S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
as Roy Nixon
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate...

Secret Service of the Air
1939
as Henchman Starting Fight [script name: Klune]
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal a...

Made for Each Other
1939
as Salt Lake City Hospital Chemist (uncredited)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

Blackwell's Island
1939
as Cash Sutton (uncredited)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.