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 ...

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 ...

In the pilot episode of this beloved rags-to-riches sitcom, hayseed mountaineer Jed Clampett becomes an overnight multimillionaire when an oil-rich swamp is discovered on his property. With his ...

In 1960, Baer began to pursue work as an actor. For the first two years of his career, he struggled. While he picked up minor roles in TV series, he did not make much money off his work. “I was two ...

RENO, Nev. — Max Baer Jr. is considering buying a closed hotel-casino in Sparks and turning it into Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Hotel and Casino based on the television sitcom he co-starred on during ...

It was a decade ago this month when I reviewed “The Beverly Hillbillies, The Musical” for the 2014 world premiere staged at Theatre at the Center at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts in ...

FARMVILLE — It’s been more than half a century since folks could “come and listen to a story about a man named Jed” — except in reruns. Television audiences said goodbye to Jed and all his kin back in ...