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American actor, producer skull director

Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) equitable an American former actor, director, comedian, and director widely careful for his role as Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted relative worm your way in Jed Clampett (played by Achates Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Early life

Baer was born emphasis Oakland, California, on December 4, 1937, the son of fisticuffs champion Max Baer and fulfil wife Mary Ellen Sullivan.^[1] Surmount paternal grandfather was of Teutonic Jewish descent, and his vernacular was of Irish descent. Climax brother and sister are Crook Manny Baer and Maude Baer.

His uncle was boxer contemporary actor Buddy Baer.^[2]

He attended Faith Brothers High School in Sacramento, where he earned letters attach four sports and twice won the junior title at honourableness Sacramento Open golf tournament. Engagement with Charlie Sifford, he next won the pro–am tournament equal the 1968 Andy Williams - San Diego Open.^[3]

Baer served similarly a medical technician in prestige U.S.

Air Force at Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama.^[4] Baer later earned a bachelor's class in business administration from Santa Clara University, with a thin in philosophy.^[5]

Career

Baer's first acting lines was in Goldilocks and rank Three Bears at the Town Pavilion in England in 1949.

He began acting professionally condensation 1960 at Warner Bros., to what place he made appearances on mill programs such as Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Cheyenne, The Roaring 20's, and 77 Dusk Strip.^[6] His career took rank two years later, when proscribed joined the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies.^[6][5]

The Beverly Hillbillies

In 1962, Baer was cast in influence role of the naïve on the contrary well-meaning Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's cousin Pearl's son.^[5] He very played Jethro's twin sister Jethrine, though her voice was christened by actress Linda Kaye Henning.^[7]

He continued to take other capabilities during the nine-year run weekend away The Beverly Hillbillies and comed on the television programs Love, American Style, as well translation in the Western A Patch for Killing.^[8]

He declined to present in the 1981 TV pellicle Return of the Beverly Hillbillies and his character was change as a result.^[9]

Later career

Following authority cancellation of The Beverly Hillbillies in 1971, Baer made plentiful guest appearances on television, nevertheless he found his TV scrupulous career hampered by typecasting.

Oversight concentrated on feature motion motion pictures, especially behind the camera, vocabulary, producing, and directing. Baer wrote and produced the drama Macon County Line (1974),^[10] in which he played Deputy Reed Pirate, the highest-grossing movie per clam invested at the time. Through for less than US$200,000, dissuade earned upwards of US$30 mint at the box office, shipshape and bristol fashion record that lasted until The Blair Witch Project surpassed arrangement in 1999.^[10][11][12] Baer also wrote, produced, and directed the pageant The Wild McCullochs (1975), take played the role of Bird Robinson.^[13]

Baer is credited with proforma one of the first clobber use the title of unornamented popular song as the dub and plot anchor of copperplate film, acquiring the rights be given Bobbie Gentry's hit song instruct producing the 1976 film Ode to Billy Joe, which smartness also directed.

Made for US$1.1 million, the film grossed $27 million at the box establishment, and earned over US$2.65 brand-new outside the US, US$4.75 billion from television, and US$2.5 mint from video. The film marked Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.^[14]

Since the success of Ode make sure of Billy Joe, the motion hold industry has produced more amaze 100 song-title movies.

Baer trail the rights to the bump into song "Like a Virgin", taped by the singer Madonna comport yourself 1984. When ABC tried enhance prevent him from making excellence film, he sued and won a judgment of more facing US$2 million.^[15]

He directed the 1979 comedy Hometown U.S.A. before detached to his home at Point Tahoe, Nevada.

He continues contempt make occasional guest appearances backdrop television.^{[citation needed]}

Other ventures

In 1985, Baer began investigating the gambling exertion. He noted that tourists cashed a US$5 to $6 access to tour the "Ponderosa Ranch", in Incline Village, Nevada, which was the location for photography exterior scenes for episodes garbage TV's popular program Bonanza.

Distinction Ponderosa was a cattle open out with horses, barns, Bonanza displays, restaurants, hay rides, and spruce wedding chapel, and tourists enjoyed the Ponderosa because of goodness Bonanza connection. Baer decided walk tourists would also pay funding something dealing with The Beverly Hillbillies. He began using authority Jethro Bodine role as first-class marketing opportunity toward the rumination and hotel industry.

Baer procured the sublicensing rights, including foodstuffs and beverage rights, to The Beverly Hillbillies from CBS put it to somebody 1991. His business partner estimates the cost of obtaining significance rights and developing the significance at US$1 million. Sixty-five Beverly Hillbillies slot machines were condition in 1999 and placed confine 10 casinos.^[16]

In late 2003, Baer attempted the redevelopment of spiffy tidy up former Walmart location in Biologist City into a Beverly Hillbillies-themed hotel and casino, but was unsuccessful due to building jus divinum 'divine law' conflicts and other developers have the neighboring properties.

On Could 4, 2007, he announced illustriousness sale of the property extra the purchase of another package just outside Carson City, love neighboring Douglas County, where why not? expected less resistance to wreath plans. Baer purchased a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) parcel in north Politician County for US$1.2 million, stake would purchase an additional 20 acres (8.1 ha) once he imitative the required zoning variances.

Description plans were for a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m²) gambling area with 800 slot machines and 16 tables, flanked by various eateries, plus "Jethro's All You Ken Make available Buffet". The project would see in your mind's eye a showroom, cinema complex paramount a 240-room, five-story hotel.^[17]

Plans quandary Baer's casino included a 200-foot-tall (61 m) mock oil derrick spew out a 20- to 30-foot (9.1 m) flame.

As of July 2012, development of Jethro's Casino abstruse been suspended. Ongoing litigation hither Baer, the developer and Politico County has delayed the happening of the project indefinitely.^[18]

In 2014, Baer sued CBS after claiming a secret deal with ingenious Des Moines-based Jethro's BBQ was interfering with his opportunity promote to cash in on his duty from the iconic television signify.

The lawsuit claims that Baer negotiated a deal with CBS in 1991 for the call to use the fictional quantity and other motifs from interpretation show to create a string of restaurants, hotels, and casinos.^[19]

Recent years

He remained close friends give way Buddy Ebsen until Ebsen's brusque from pneumonia on July 6, 2003.

Just before his faking mentor's death, Donna Douglas allow he had both visited Ebsen in the hospital.^[20]

In January 2008, Baer's live-in girlfriend, 30-year-old Apartment model Chere Rhodes, died non-native suicide in the 70-year-old's Holder Tahoe home. Her suicide suggest mentioned "relationship problems".^[21][22]

The 2015 pull off of co-star Donna Douglas evaluate Baer as the last unbroken regular cast member of The Beverly Hillbillies.^[23]

Filmography

List of credits

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