| Robert Downey Sr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Joseph Elias 1937 |
| Occupation | director, actor, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer |
| Years active | 1953 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Elsie Downey (div. 1975) Laura Ernst (1991-1994) Rosemary Rogers (1998-) |
Robert Downey, Sr. (born 1937) is an American actor, writer and film director. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He is known as the director and writer of the cult classic feature film Putney Swope, a biting satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world. Putney Swope is a 1969 film written and directed by Robert Downey Sr
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Biography
Personal life
Downey, Sr. was born Robert John Elias, Jr. , of half Irish and half Jewish descent. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ [1][2] Downey is the father of actor Robert Downey Jr. and actress-writer Allyson Downey, both children from his first marriage to actress Elsie Downey. Robert John Downey Jr (born April 4 1965 is an American They were divorced in 1975. Downey Sr. 's second marriage, to the actress-writer Laura Ernst, ended with her 1994 death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( ALS, sometimes called Maladie de Charcot, or in the United States Lou Gehrig's Disease) is a progressive He currently lives in New York City with his wife, Rosemary Rogers, whom he married in 1998. The City of New York
Career
By the age of 22, Downey had served in the Army, played minor league baseball, become a Golden Gloves champion and an Off-Off-Broadway playwright. Part of the History of baseball series Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of Professional baseball leagues in North For the honor in Major League Baseball, see Gold Glove. The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for Amateur Off-Off-Broadway refers to theatrical productions including plays, musicals or Performance art pieces performed in New York City in smaller theatres In 1961, working with the film editor Fred von Bernewitz, he began writing and directing low-budget 16mm films which gained an underground following, beginning with Ball's Bluff (1961), a fantasy short about a Civil War soldier who awakens in Central Park in 1961. Fred von Bernewitz (b 1938 Washington DC) is a film editor currently with HBO.
He moved into big-budget filmmaking with the surrealistic Greaser's Palace (1972), compared to The Greatest Story Ever Told by Vincent Canby in a New York Times review:
- Greaser's Palace does to vulgar humor what the George Stevens film did to Christianity: it embraces it with awe and far too many technical resources. Greaser's Palace is a 1972 American film directed by Robert Downey Sr The Greatest Story Ever Told is a United Artists 1965 film about the life of Jesus, directed by George Stevens (with some scenes Vincent Canby ( July 27 1924 &ndash September 15 2000) was an American film critic. George Stevens ( December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an Academy Award -winning American motion picture The film, which opened yesterday at the Festival Theater, is the gospel according to Downey, set in a Wild West ruled by a tyrant named Seaweedhead Greaser, who collects taxes, keep his mother and his favorite mariachi band in cages and suffers the constipation of the damned. The savior, who arrives by parachute, is a modest young man in a 1940ish zoot suit who simply wants to get to Jerusalem to become an actor-singer. "It's written," he says, "that the agent Morris awaits me. " En route he finds himself working miracles ("If ya feel, ya heal"), some of which aren't 100 per cent effective. He "cures" one old man who throws away his crutches and announces triumphantly: "I can crawl again! I can crawl again!" The savior rather enjoys walking on water and is an immense success with his nightclub act, which concludes when he holds up his two bleeding hands, although the agent Morris thinks it's dreadful. In poor taste, really. He's just getting started on a proper show biz career when his father shows up and tells him it's time to go. "I don't want to," he says. "I think I've found myself and I really don't trust you". [3]
His most recent film was Rittenhouse Square (2005), a documentary capturing life in a Philadelphia park.
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