MAX BAER JR. | 84

Max Baer Jr. is the son of the boxing champion, Max Sr. He may have a bachelor’s degree in business administration; his career and fame though, is somehow influenced by his father’s popularity that his career path has changed. He began appearing on television programs before he landed his most notable role as Jethro Bodine on ’60s and ’70s sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies. Amusingly, since he has a business background, he put up Beverly Hillbillies slot machines after he acquired sublicensing rights. A total of sixty-five slot machines were built and placed in different casinos in 1999.

However, at present, his slot machine business is no longer operational. In 1979, Max Jr. directed the comedy Hometown U.S.A. before eventually saying goodbye to the industry. He then went home at his property in Lake Tahoe, Nevada to retire. In 2015, news surfaced reporting the death of Donna Douglas, his co-star in The Beverly Hillbillies. Following her death, Baer Jr. is the only surviving regular cast member of the said show.