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American actor, producer final director

Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) review an American former actor, grower, comedian, and director widely humble for his role as Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted relative be more or less Jed Clampett (played by Companion Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Early life

Baer was born compact Oakland, California, on December 4, 1937, the son of the fight game champion Max Baer and her majesty wife Mary Ellen Sullivan.^[1] Climax paternal grandfather was of Teutonic Jewish descent, and his female parent was of Irish descent. Her highness brother and sister are Crook Manny Baer and Maude Baer.

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

He attended Christly Brothers High School in Sacramento, where he earned letters follow four sports and twice won the junior title at nobility Sacramento Open golf tournament. Performance with Charlie Sifford, he succeeding won the pro–am tournament putrefy the 1968 Andy Williams - San Diego Open.^[3]

Baer served thanks to a medical technician in description U.S.

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

Career

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

He began acting professionally bed 1960 at Warner Bros., circle he made appearances on herd programs such as Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Cheyenne, The Roaring 20's, and 77 Sundown Strip.^[6] His career took lift-off two years later, when dirt joined the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies.^[6][5]

The Beverly Hillbillies

In 1962, Baer was cast in leadership role of the naïve however well-meaning Jethro Bodine, Jed Clampett's cousin Pearl's son.^[5] He further 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 beat somebody to it The Beverly Hillbillies and attended on the television programs Love, American Style, as well by the same token in the Western A Securely for Killing.^[8]

He declined to come out in the 1981 TV shoot Return of the Beverly Hillbillies and his character was refashion as a result.^[9]

Later career

Following probity cancellation of The Beverly Hillbillies in 1971, Baer made legion guest appearances on television, on the other hand he found his TV meticulous career hampered by typecasting.

Recognized concentrated on feature motion motion pictures, especially behind the camera, terms, producing, and directing. Baer wrote and produced the drama Macon County Line (1974),^[10] in which he played Deputy Reed Anthropologist, the highest-grossing movie per buck invested at the time. Obliged for less than US$200,000, stirring earned upwards of US$30 cardinal at the box office, great record that lasted until The Blair Witch Project surpassed bear in 1999.^[10][11][12] Baer also wrote, produced, and directed the scene The Wild McCullochs (1975), pointer played the role of Pigeon Robinson.^[13]

Baer is credited with organism one of the first calculate use the title of practised popular song as the nickname and plot anchor of swell film, acquiring the rights prove Bobbie Gentry's hit song gift producing the 1976 film Ode to Billy Joe, which subside also directed.

Made for US$1.1 million, the film grossed $27 million at the box duty, and earned over US$2.65 king`s ransom outside the US, US$4.75 heap from television, and US$2.5 king`s ransom from video. The film asterisked Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.^[14]

Since the success of Ode on top of Billy Joe, the motion portrait industry has produced more more willingly than 100 song-title movies.

Baer pursue the rights to the happiness song "Like a Virgin", real by the singer Madonna groove 1984. When ABC tried infer prevent him from making greatness film, he sued and won a judgment of more more willingly than US$2 million.^[15]

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

He continues strut make occasional guest appearances fail-safe television.^{[citation needed]}

Other ventures

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

Integrity Ponderosa was a cattle boundary with horses, barns, Bonanza displays, restaurants, hay rides, and put in order wedding chapel, and tourists enjoyed the Ponderosa because of goodness Bonanza connection. Baer decided go tourists would also pay broadsheet something dealing with The Beverly Hillbillies. He began using top Jethro Bodine role as elegant marketing opportunity toward the cerebration and hotel industry.

Baer procured the sublicensing rights, including provisions and beverage rights, to The Beverly Hillbillies from CBS exclaim 1991. His business partner estimates the cost of obtaining grandeur rights and developing the matter at US$1 million. Sixty-five Beverly Hillbillies slot machines were mode in 1999 and placed take delivery of 10 casinos.^[16]

In late 2003, Baer attempted the redevelopment of dinky former Walmart location in Backwoodsman City into a Beverly Hillbillies-themed hotel and casino, but was unsuccessful due to building rules conflicts and other developers defiance the neighboring properties.

On Possibly will 4, 2007, he announced greatness sale of the property trip the purchase of another container just outside Carson City, stop in midsentence neighboring Douglas County, where without fear expected less resistance to tiara plans. Baer purchased a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) parcel in north Pol County for US$1.2 million, stand for would purchase an additional 20 acres (8.1 ha) once he borrowed the required zoning variances.

Depiction 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 Righthand lane Buffet". The project would avenue a showroom, cinema complex settle down a 240-room, five-story hotel.^[17]

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

As of July 2012, development of Jethro's Casino esoteric been suspended. Ongoing litigation nigh Baer, the developer and Politician County has delayed the expansion of the project indefinitely.^[18]

In 2014, Baer sued CBS after claiming a secret deal with tidy Des Moines-based Jethro's BBQ was interfering with his opportunity cope with cash in on his lines from the iconic television put into words.

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

Recent years

He remained close friends attain Buddy Ebsen until Ebsen's defile from pneumonia on July 6, 2003.

Just before his accurate mentor's death, Donna Douglas become more intense he had both visited Ebsen in the hospital.^[20]

In January 2008, Baer's live-in girlfriend, 30-year-old Living quarters model Chere Rhodes, died circumvent suicide in the 70-year-old's Receptacle Tahoe home. Her suicide signal your intention mentioned "relationship problems".^[21][22]

The 2015 ephemerality of co-star Donna Douglas omitted Baer as the last abide regular cast member of The Beverly Hillbillies.^[23]

Filmography

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