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Max Baer Jr.
Actor, Producer, Director, WriterBorn December 4, 1937 (87 years)
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Maximilian Adalbert "Max" Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine, the dimwitted nephew of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies. After the death of Donna Douglas in January 2015, Baer became the last surviving member of that show's main cast.
Baer's first acting role was in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Blackpool Pavilion in England in 1949. He began acting professionally in 1960 at Warner Bros., where he made appearances on television programs such as Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Cheyenne, The Roaring 20s, and 77 Sunset Strip. His career took off two years later, when he joined the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies.
In 1962, Baer was cast in the role of the doltish Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's cousin's son. It proved to be the high point of his acting career and the role for which he is best remembered.
He continued to take other parts during the nine-year run of The Beverly Hillbilles and appeared on the television programs Vacation Playhouse and Love, American Style, as well as in the western A Time for Killing.
Maximilian Adalbert "Max" Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine, the dimwitted nephew of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies. After the death of Donna Douglas in January 2015, Baer became the last surviving member of that show's main cast.
Baer's first acting role was in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Blackpool Pavilion in England in 1949. He began acting professionally in 1960 at Warner Bros., where he made appearances on television programs such as Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Cheyenne, The Roaring 20s, and 77 Sunset Strip. His career took off two years later, when he joined the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies.
In 1962, Baer was cast in the role of the doltish Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's cousin's son. It proved to be the high point of his acting career and the role for which he is best remembered.
He continued to take other parts during the nine-year run of The Beverly Hillbilles and appeared on the television programs Vacation Playhouse and Love, American Style, as well as in the western A Time for Killing.
Filmography
| 2004 | Hit Celebrity TV Commercials · as Jethro Bodine - For Kellogg's Cereals |
| 2003 | 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection · as Jethro Bodine (beverly Hillbillies) |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years · as Jethro Bodine |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1996 | 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos · as Jethro Bodine (beverly Hillbillies) |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as St. Trooper Boone Willoughby |
| 1982 | Matt Houston (TV Series) |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Big Jake Farley |
| 1975 | The Wild McCullochs · as Culver Robinson |
| 1974 | Macon County Line · as Deptuty Reed Morgan |
| 1971 | The Birdmen · as Tanker |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Jackie Lee Rhodes (segment "love And The Games People Play") |
| 1967 | A Time for Killing · as Sgt. Luther Liskell |
| 1963 | Vacation Playhouse (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series) · as Jethro Bodine |
| 1962 | It's a Man's World (TV Series) · as 1st Gi |
| 1961 | Follow The Sun (TV Series) · as Tom Baylor |
| 1960 | The Roaring 20's (TV Series) · as Saunders |
| 1960 | SurfSide 6 (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) · as Harry 'stinger' Hurley (uncredited) |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Government Man |
| 1958 | Bronco (TV Series) · as Cowboy |
| 1957 | Maverick (TV Series) · as Cowboy |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot (TV Series) · as Frank |
| 1955 |