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Robert John Downey Sr. (né Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936 – July 7, 2021) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.He was known for writing and directing the underground film Putney Swope (1969), a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world.
Three years ago, Robert Downey Jr. and director Chris Smith started filming a documentary about the former's father. The result, Netflix's Sr., became something neither of them could have ever ...
Robert John Downey Jr. was born on April 4, 1965, in Manhattan, New York City, the younger of the two children. [3] His father, Robert Downey Sr., was a filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an actress who appeared in Downey Sr.'s films. [4] Downey's father was Jewish, while Downey's mother had Scottish, German, and Swiss ...
Robert Downey Sr. (1935–2021), film writer and director [583] Samuel Fuller (1912–1997), film writer, director and actor [584] Keith Gordon (born 1961), film actor, director and writer [585] Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, 1927), theater, film, and TV actress, and film director [403] James Gray (born 1969), film writer and director ...
Robert Downey Jr.’s first acting gig was in a weird one called Pound, a 1970 film directed by his father—that would be the late avant-garde filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.—about dogs (played by ...
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“Last night, dad passed peacefully in his sleep after years of enduring the ravages of Parkinson’s…he was a true maverick filmmaker,” Downey Jr. said. Robert Downey Sr., director and ...
Mother was pretty famous in the 20s, though I can't find much on her online expectedly. I did guess however that Robert Joseph Elias was completely Jewish, only because Robert Downey Jr always says his father was Jewish, so it had to come from somewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.223.217.181 21:22, 30 July 2007 (UTC)