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Max Baer
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Max Baer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-02-11,Omaha - Nebraska - USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Max Baer is arguably best known today for siring Max Baer Jr., the actor who played Jethro Bodine on the classic TV series The Beverly Hillbillies (1962). However, old-timers, followers of the sweet science, and viewers of the film Cinderella Man (2005) all know that Max Sr. was boxing's heavyweight champion of the world for all of 364 days, from the time he knocked out Primo Carnera on June 14, 1934, to the day he lost his title to Jimmy Braddock on June 13, 1935. Cinephiles also will remember the colorful Max from his numerous bit roles in films, including Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's Africa Screams (1949) to his near-autobiographical turn in the Budd Schulberg boxing expose The Harder They Fall (1956) starring Humphrey Bogart. Ironically, it was his acting in the latter film that likely led to his misrepresentation in "Cinderella Man" as being something akin to a monster, when actually, according to his family and those who knew him, he was an amiable man. Some fight fans thought that it was his good nature, which they attributed to his clowning, that eventually did him in, as he would not bear down on his opponents in the latter part of his career. Max Jr. says that his father wanted to be an actor, an insight that explains the flashy persona he displayed in and outside the ring as he wisecracked and clowned his way through careers as a boxer and performer in movies and nightclubs. Blessed with what "The Boxing Register: International Boxing Hall of Fame Official Record Book" terms the most powerful right hand in heavyweight history, Baer used that right to gain a fearsome reputation as a California prizefighter before moving to New York and taking on the top ranks of the heavyweight division.

Filmography

The Harder They Fall

7.168

The Harder They Fall
1956-05-08

The Prizefighter and the Lady

5.471

The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933-11-10

The Navy Comes Through

6

The Navy Comes Through
1942-10-30

6.063

Riding High
1950-04-12

Buckskin Frontier

7

Buckskin Frontier
1943-05-14

The McGuerins from Brooklyn

6.667

The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942-12-31

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

7

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25

6.643

Utah Blaine
1957-02-01

7.5

Fisticuffs
1938-08-27

7

Over She Goes
1937-08-16

5.75

Ladies' Day
1943-04-09

7

Bride for Sale
1949-11-12

Skipalong Rosenbloom

7

Skipalong Rosenbloom
1951-04-30

Once Upon a Horse...

8.333

Once Upon a Horse...
1958-09-01

Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer

0

Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer
1964-01-01

Requiem for a Heavyweight

8

Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956-10-11

5.7

Africa Screams
1949-05-04

The Champs Step Out

10

The Champs Step Out
1951-11-15

7.625

Playhouse 90
1956-10-04

The Abbott and Costello Show

7.19

The Abbott and Costello Show
1952-12-05