Max Baer
Actor/Actriz
17
Películas
2
Series
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.
Como Actor/Actriz
Playhouse 90
Mike
The Abbott and Costello Show
Killer King
La caída de un ídolo
Buddy Brannen
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Abbott y Costello: África viva
Grappler McCoy
Así lo quiso la suerte
Bertie (uncredited)
Ladies' Day
Hippo Jones
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Mike
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Steve Morgan
Utah Blaine
Gus Ortmann
Once Upon a Horse...
Ben
The Navy Comes Through
Coxswain G. Berringer
Buckskin Frontier
Tiny
Bride for Sale
Litka
Fisticuffs
Himself
Over She Goes
Silas Morner
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Butcher Baer
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Professor Samson
Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer