Baer is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on the classic CBS sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies ... California, Max Baer, Jr.’s parents were champion boxer Max Baer and Mary Ellen Sullivan.

In later years, Baer Jr., son of boxing legend Max Baer, acquired merchandising and licensing rights to The Beverly ...

"The Beverly Hillbillies" cast in 1963, from left to right: Max Baer Jr. (as Jethro Bodine); Irene Ryan (as Granny, Daisy Moses); Buddy Ebsen (as Jed Clampett); and Donna Douglas (as Elly May ...

Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood to which they still cannot quite adjust.