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<html> <head> <title>Max Baer, Jr.</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/618/000089351/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Max Baer, Jr.<img src="baer-sm.jpg" height=305 width=250 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Max Baer, Jr.">AKA Maximilian Adalbert Baer, Jr.Born: <a href="/lists/856/000106538/" class=proflink>4-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/936/000105621/" class=proflink>1937</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/639/000069432/" class=proflink>Oakland, CA</a> Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: ActorNationality: United States Executive summary: Jethro on The Beverly HillbilliesMax Baer Jr earned a degree in Business Administration, but found acting an easier paycheck, and appeared in guest roles on such early-1960s staples as Maverick and Hawaiian Eye. In 1962 he landed his name-making role as the comically dim Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies, and by the time the series ended nine years later few producers could imagine him in any other role. After a few appearances on Love American Style, Baer wrote and produced the drive-in hit Macon County Line, starring himself and <a href="/people/849/000025774/">Leif Garrett</a>. He directed three films in the 1970s, the broad, brawling comedy Wild McCullochs with <a href="/people/947/000050797/">Forrest Tucker</a>, the adolescent tragedy Ode to Billy Joe with <a href="/people/447/000025372/">Robby Benson</a>, and Hometown USA, an uninspired Southern-fried spin on American Graffiti. Baer then retired from show business, and has lived comfortably off his TV and movie residuals ever since. Since 2003 he has been trying to find backing to convert a closed Wal-Mart near Carson City into a Beverly Hillbillies-themed resort to be called Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino. Though funding has so far proven elusive, Baer's plans include Granny抯 Vittles & Hog Jowls Coffee Shop, a bakery to be called Elly Mae's Buns, and Jethro's "All You Can Et" Buffet. Baer made news in 2005 when he publicly protested the way his father, world heavyweight champion boxer <a href="/people/171/000101865/">Max Baer</a>, was portrayed in <a href="/people/365/000025290/">Ron Howard</a>'s boxing movie Cinderella Man, which made the elder Baer its bad guy, an ogre who laughed about killing two opponents in the ring. Baer, though, insists that his father had been deeply troubled by those deaths, and used his winnings to financially provide for the families of both his victims. Om 27 January 2008, Baer's live-in girlfriend, Chere Rhodes, shot herself in his Lake Tahoe home. She died three days later.Father: <a href="/people/171/000101865/">Max Baer</a> (World Heavyweight Champion) Mother: Mary Ellen Sullivan (nurse) Brother: James Baer (b. 1941) Sister: Maude Baer (b. 1943) Wife: Joanna Hill (m. 1965 in Las Vegas, div. 1970) Girlfriend: <a href="/people/465/000031372/">Sharon Tate</a> (actress) Girlfriend: <a href="/people/666/000035561/">Donna Douglas</a> (actress, dated late 1950s) Girlfriend: <a href="/people/770/000023701/">Victoria Principal</a> (1970) Girlfriend: <a href="/people/780/000025705/">Christy Canyon</a> (pornstar) Girlfriend: Chere Rhodes (b. circa 1978, cohabited, d. 2008 suicide)     University: <a href="/edu/559/000068355/">BA Business Administration, Santa Clara University</a>     <a href="/lists/481/000045346/">Jewish Ancestry</a> Paternal grandfather     TELEVISION     <a href="/tv/545/000049398/">The Beverly Hillbillies</a> Jethro Bodine (1962-71)     FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR     <a href="/films/483/000255715/">Hometown USA (1-Jun-1979)</a>     <a href="/films/288/000038174/">Ode to Billy Joe (4-Jun-1976)</a>     <a href="/films/573/000235865/">The McCullochs (21-May-1975)</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/573/000235865/">The McCullochs (21-May-1975)</a>     <a href="/films/389/000033290/">Macon County Line (8-Aug-1974)</a>     <a href="/films/344/000093065/">The Birdmen (18-Sep-1971)</a>     <a href="/films/556/000167055/">A Time for Killing (15-Aug-1967)</a> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=89351"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=89351">Max Baer, Jr.</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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