Max Baer Jr.
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
The son of former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer, Max Baer Jr. is
a classic (except probably to him) example of Hollywood typecasting.
Known around the world as "Jethro Bodine" in the smash TV series
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Baer did not find work as an actor in Hollywood for three
years after the Hillbillies went off the air. Baer finally had to put
himself to work as an actor in his movie Macon County Line (1974), which he also wrote
and produced with a friend. Although it didn't let him escape his
Jethro character, he did earn more than $35 million dollars in box
office and (later) rental receipts. This after an initial investment of
just over $100,000. Not bad for a boy with a "sixth grade
education!"
