Beloved actor Max Baer, Jr. (who prefers to be known as just Max Baer) is now 87. Baer is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on the classic CBS sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies, which originally ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Max Baer Jr. once played the burly, doltish Jethro Bodine on “The Beverly Hillbillies” television series. Now the 64-year-old Baer intends to prove he is no fool by leading the ...

This Rarely-Seen '60s TV Star's Enormous Fortune Has Nothing to Do With Acting originally appeared on Parade. As the last surviving cast member of The Beverly Hillbillies, Max Baer Jr. — better known ...

Max Baer, Jr., created a cultural icon with his portrayal of Jethro Bodine on the hit 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” where he played a dim-witted bumpkin whose main goal in life – besides ...

LAS VEGAS — Jethro Bodine intends to prove he’s no fool. Max Baer Jr., who once played the burly, doltish character on the sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” recently signed a deal with International ...

When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...

Max Baer Jr., who played the burly, doltish Jethro Bodine on "The Beverly Hillbillies," recently signed a deal with a Reno company to produce hundreds of penny slot machines featuring the show that ...

There’s no mention of it on his Hall of Fame plaque, but Leo Durocher once allowed a talking horse to take batting practice against Sandy Koufax at Dodger Stadium. Nor does it mention the time that ...

A Southern accent has been portrayed on television and movies as everything from slow-witted (Jethro Bodine on “The Beverly Hillbillies”) to fiesty (Scarlett O’Hara) to wise (Andy Griffith). But sexy?

I find I have been lying to myself. If you think about it, I bet you can say that about yourself, too. We have been influenced to action or inaction by a data tsunami, delivered in a language for ...