Personal Info
Birth date
1936-06-24 (89 Years)
Day of death
2021-07-07
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
-Robert Downey Sr.
Biography
Robert John Downey (né Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936 – July 7, 2021) was an American filmmaker and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Downey Sr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Dick Cavett Show
6.841
Overview:
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.5
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Twilight Zone
7.747
Overview:
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.Saturday Night Live
6.97
Overview:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.Finding Your Roots
6.538
Overview:
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
6
Overview:
Secret celebrities - from all walks of life - compete in full drag as they try to impress Emmy Award winning host, RuPaul. To save themselves from elimination, they have to lip sync for their lives. In the end, one celebrity will be crowned America's Next Celebrity Drag Superstar.Matlock
7.108
Overview:
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.Tales of the City
8
Overview:
Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane.Boogie Nights
7.632
Overview:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.Magnolia
7.731
Overview:
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.The Family Man
6.801
Overview:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.Licorice Pizza
6.967
Overview:
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.Tower Heist
6.108
Overview:
A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.To Live and Die in L.A.
7.1
Overview:
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.The Sunchaser
6.189
Overview:
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake."Sr."
6.9
Overview:
A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.Johnny Be Good
4.555
Overview:
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?Putney Swope
6.4
Overview:
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.Too Much Sun
4.6
Overview:
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.Hail Caesar
3.4
Overview:
Caesar is having a hard time dividing his time between his band and his rich girlfriend, Buffer. Buffer's dad doesn't like Ceasar, so he makes Caesar a bet. If Caesar can make a hundred thousand dollars within six months, he can stay with Buffer... but if he fails, their relationship is over forever. How can Ceasar win the bet if he only knows how jam with his band?Hugo Pool
5.12
Overview:
Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease.Greaser's Palace
4.75
Overview:
A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.Up the Academy
4.6
Overview:
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.Pablo
6.9
Overview:
Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of "famous unknown" Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that spans from Havana, during the pre-Cuban revolution to his current home, in the garage behind his son's house.The Gong Show Movie
3.731
Overview:
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.Moving Target
6
Overview:
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.America
3.25
Overview:
The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention.From Other Worlds
3.833
Overview:
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences. Along the way, she finds romance, saves the planet and finds new meaning in her life.Acting
2022"Sr." as Self
2021Robert Downey: Moment to Moment as Unknown
2019Searching for Mr. Rugoff as Self
2015Don't Blink - Robert Frank as Self (archive footage)
2012Pablo as Self
2012Radio Unnameable as Himself
2012Finding Your Roots (1 Episode) as Self
2011Tower Heist as Judge Ramos
2009The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery' as Self
2005Rittenhouse Square as Interviewer
2004From Other Worlds as Baker
2000The Family Man as Man in House
1999Magnolia as WDKK Show Director
1997Boogie Nights as Burt, Studio Manager
1996The Sunchaser as Telephone Voices
1994Hail Caesar as Butler
1993Tales of the City (1 Episode) as Edgar's Doctor
1993The Last Party as Self
1988Johnny Be Good as NCAA Investigator
1988Moving Target as Weinberg
1986Matlock (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985To Live and Die in L.A. as Thomas Bateman
1985The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as (segment "Wordplay")
1981Energy and How to Get It as Unknown
1975Saturday Night Live (1 Episode) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1971Is There Sex After Death? as Himself
1971You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat as Head of Ad Agency
1969Putney Swope as Putney Swope (voice) (uncredited)
1969Naughty Nurse as Desk Clerk
1968No More Excuses as Pvt. Stewart Thompson
1968The Dick Cavett Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1961Balls Bluff as Unknown
Crew
2021Licorice Pizza ... In Memory Of
2004A Touch Of Greatness ... Cinematography
1966Literature Au-Go-Go ... Cinematography
1966From Sea To Shining Sea ... Cinematography
1965Sweet Smell of Sex ... Cinematography
Production
2020Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race (1 Episode) ... Development Producer
2001Strut! ... Associate Producer
1969Putney Swope ... Producer
1966Chafed Elbows ... Producer
1964Babo 73 ... Producer
1961Balls Bluff ... Producer
Directing
2005Rittenhouse Square ... Director
2004A Touch Of Greatness ... Director
1997Hugo Pool ... Director
1990Too Much Sun ... Director
1987Rented Lips ... Director
1986America ... Director
1985The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) ... Director
1980Up the Academy ... Director
1975Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight ... Director
1973Sticks and Bones ... Director
1972Greaser's Palace ... Director
1970Pound ... Director
1969Putney Swope ... Director
1968No More Excuses ... Director
1966Chafed Elbows ... Director
1965Sweet Smell of Sex ... Director
1964Babo 73 ... Director
1961Balls Bluff ... Director
Writing
1997Hugo Pool ... Writer
1990Too Much Sun ... Writer
1986America ... Writer
1980The Gong Show Movie ... Writer
1975Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight ... Screenplay, Story
1973Sticks and Bones ... Screenplay
1972Greaser's Palace ... Screenplay
1970Pound ... Writer
1969Putney Swope ... Writer
1968No More Excuses ... Writer
1966Chafed Elbows ... Writer
1964Babo 73 ... Writer
1961Balls Bluff ... Writer
Camera
1957Your Share in Tomorrow ... Director of Photography