ROBERT DOWNEY SR.

(Robert John Downey Sr.)


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  • Born: June 24, 1936
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer

Robert John Downey Sr. is a retired American actor, director, producer, writer, 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."