Robert Downey Sr.

Robert Downey Sr.

Active - 1961 - 2022  |   Birth - Jun 24, 1935  |   Genres - Comedy, Drama, Documentary, Comedy Drama, Crime | Subgenres - Romantic Comedy, Comedy Drama, American Football Film, Buddy Film, Chase

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Robert John Downey Sr. is a retired American actor, director, producer, writer and cinematographer and the father and namesake of actor Robert Downey Jr. He is known for writing and directing the underground film Putney Swope, a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey Sr.'s films during the 1960s were "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs, with minimal budgets and outrageous satire, effectively pushing forward the countercultural agenda of the day."

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