Max Baer Jr. starred in ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ cast as Jethro Bodine Baer played Jethro Bodine in The Beverly Hillbillies. The character is the cousin of the Clampett family patriarch Jed ...

Max Baer Jr., best known for his role as Jethro Bodine on the show, filed a lawsuit against CBS on Tuesday. The lawsuit claims that Baer negotiated a deal with CBS for the rights to use the ...

“Bodine” was also the last name of Max Baer Jr.’s character, Jethro, in the popular 1960s CBS television show, “The Beverly Hillbillies.” A representative for CBS confirmed the ...

In 1962, the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies introduced America to Jed, Granny, and Elly May Clampett, along with their cousin Pearl and her grown son, Jethro Bodine. After the Clampetts ...

The Beverly Hillbillies' Jethro Bodine would fall somewhere between Barney Fife and Kramer on any list of great TV sidekicks. Part buffoon and part beautiful dreamer, Jethro was a childlike mind ...

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 hillbillies to ...