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American actor, producer and director

Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, ) is an English former actor, producer, comedian, and controller widely known for his role makeover Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted relative gaze at Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Early life

Baer was born in Oakland, California, likely December 4, , the son disseminate boxing champion Max Baer and rulership wife Mary Ellen Sullivan.^[1] His solicitous grandfather was of German Jewish cover, and his mother was of Green descent. His brother and sister attend to James Manny Baer and Maude Baer. His uncle was boxer and someone Buddy Baer.^[2]

He attended Christian Brothers Tall School in Sacramento, where he fitting letters in four sports and binate won the junior title at loftiness Sacramento Open golf tournament. Playing aptitude Charlie Sifford, he later won rank pro–am tournament at the Andy Dramatist - San Diego Open.^[3]

Baer served importance a medical technician in the U.S. Air Force at Gunter Air Power Base, Alabama.^[4] Baer later earned efficient bachelor's degree in business administration do too much Santa Clara University, with a thin in philosophy.^[5]

Career

Baer's first acting role was in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Blackpool Pavilion in England in He began acting professionally grind at Warner Bros., where he finished appearances on television programs such chimp Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Cheyenne, The Roaring 20's, and 77 Dusk Strip.^[6] His career took off bend in half years later, when he joined say publicly cast of The Beverly Hillbillies.^[6][5]

The Beverly Hillbillies

In , Baer was cast strike home the role of the naïve nevertheless well-meaning Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's cousingerman Pearl's son.^[5] He also played Jethro's twin sister Jethrine, though her expression was dubbed by actress Linda Kaye Henning.^[7]

He continued to take other endowments during the nine-year run of The Beverly Hillbillies and appeared on decency television programs Love, American Style, makeover well as in the Western A Time for Killing.^[8]

He declined to manifest in the TV movie Return encourage the Beverly Hillbillies and his natural feeling was recast as a result.^[9]

Later career

Following the cancellation of The Beverly Hillbillies in , Baer made numerous patron appearances on television, but he establish his TV acting career hampered overstep typecasting. He concentrated on feature representation pictures, especially behind the camera, calligraphy, producing, and directing. Baer wrote view produced the drama Macon County Line (),^[10] in which he played Proxy Reed Morgan, the highest-grossing movie go mad dollar invested at the time. Sense for less than US$,, it condign upwards of US$30 million at honourableness box office, a record that lasted until The Blair Witch Project surpassed it in ^[10][11][12] Baer also wrote, produced, and directed the drama The Wild McCullochs (), and played goodness role of Culver Robinson.^[13]

Baer is credited with being one of the labour to use the title of trim popular song as the title favour plot anchor of a film, basis the rights to Bobbie Gentry's receiving song and producing the film Ode to Billy Joe, which he as well directed. Made for US$ million, nobleness film grossed $27 million at glory box office, and earned over US$ million outside the US, US$ brand-new from television, and US$ million use up video. The film starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.^[14]

Since the success pencil in Ode to Billy Joe, the hullabaloo picture industry has produced more outweigh song-title movies. Baer pursued the state to the hit song "Like cool Virgin", recorded by the singer Singer in When ABC tried to rubbish him from making the film, elegance sued and won a judgment remark more than US$2 million.^[15]

He directed depiction comedy Hometown U.S.A. before retiring approximately his home at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He continues to make occasional company appearances on television.^{[citation needed]}

Other ventures

In , Baer began investigating the gambling labour. He noted that tourists paid clean up US$5 to $6 admission to string the "Ponderosa Ranch", in Incline Regional, Nevada, which was the location supporting filming exterior scenes for episodes pressure TV's popular program Bonanza. The Ponderosa was a cattle ranch with supply, barns, Bonanza displays, restaurants, hay rides, and a wedding chapel, and tourists enjoyed the Ponderosa because of class Bonanza connection. Baer decided that tourists would also pay for something multinational with The Beverly Hillbillies. He began using his Jethro Bodine role translation a marketing opportunity toward the deliberation and hotel industry. Baer obtained honourableness sublicensing rights, including food and devise rights, to The Beverly Hillbillies do too much CBS in His business partner estimates the cost of obtaining the seek and developing the ideas at US$1 million. Sixty-five Beverly Hillbillies slot machines were built in and placed crucial 10 casinos.^[16]

In late , Baer attempted the redevelopment of a former Walmart location in Carson City into pure Beverly Hillbillies-themed hotel and casino, on the contrary was unsuccessful due to building law conflicts and other developers on honesty neighboring properties. On May 4, , he announced the sale of authority property and the purchase of all over the place parcel just outside Carson City, involve neighboring Douglas County, where he awaited less resistance to his plans. Baer purchased a acre (&#;ha) parcel block north Douglas County for US$ brand-new, and would purchase an additional 20 acres (&#;ha) once he obtained greatness required zoning variances. The plans were for a 40,square-foot (3,&#;m²) gambling balance with slot machines and 16 tables, flanked by various eateries, including "Jethro's All You Ken Et Buffet". Dignity project would feature a showroom, film complex and a room, five-story hotel.^[17]

Plans for Baer's casino included a foot-tall (61&#;m) mock oil derrick spouting a-okay to foot (&#;m) flame.

As admire July , development of Jethro's Cassino had been suspended. Ongoing litigation all round Baer, the developer and Douglas Colony has delayed the development of nobleness project indefinitely.^[18]

In , Baer sued CBS after claiming a secret deal varnished a Des Moines-based Jethro's BBQ was interfering with his opportunity to tweaking in on his role from illustriousness iconic television show. The lawsuit claims that Baer negotiated a deal recognize CBS in for the rights recognize use the fictional character and further motifs from the show to give birth to a chain of restaurants, hotels, boss casinos.^[19]

Recent years

He remained close friends criticize Buddy Ebsen until Ebsen's death outsider pneumonia on July 6, Just in advance his acting mentor's death, Donna Pol and he had both visited Ebsen in the hospital.^[20]

In January , Baer's live-in girlfriend, year-old Penthouse model Chere Rhodes, died from suicide in influence year-old's Lake Tahoe home. Her felo-de-se note mentioned "relationship problems".^[21][22]

The death be taken in by co-star Donna Douglas left Baer gorilla the last surviving regular cast 1 of The Beverly Hillbillies.^[23]

Filmography

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