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Max Baer‌

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Max Baer

Omaha - Nebraska - USA

Max Baer

Omaha - Nebraska - USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1909-02-11

Popularity

star4.0

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.

Movie Credits

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall‌
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calendar 1956

The Prizefighter and the Lady

The Prizefighter and the Lady‌
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calendar 1933

The Navy Comes Through

The Navy Comes Through‌
star5.6
calendar 1942

Riding High

Riding High‌
star5.8
calendar 1950

Buckskin Frontier

Buckskin Frontier‌
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calendar 1943

The McGuerins from Brooklyn

The McGuerins from Brooklyn‌
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calendar 1942

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage‌
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calendar 1983

Utah Blaine

Utah Blaine‌
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calendar 1957

Fisticuffs

Fisticuffs‌
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calendar 1938

Over She Goes

Over She Goes‌
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calendar 1937

Ladies' Day

Ladies' Day‌
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calendar 1943

Bride for Sale

Bride for Sale‌
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calendar 1949

Skipalong Rosenbloom

Skipalong Rosenbloom‌
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calendar 1951

Once Upon a Horse...

Once Upon a Horse...‌
star8.5
calendar 1958

Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer

Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer‌
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calendar 1964

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight‌
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calendar 1956

Africa Screams

Africa Screams‌
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calendar 1949

The Champs Step Out

The Champs Step Out‌
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calendar 1951

Tv Credits

Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90‌
star7.4
calendar 1956