Robert Downey, Sr.

Actor + Writer + Photographer

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Born Jun 24, 1935

Age 78

Other Names Robert John Elias

Robert John Downey, Sr. is an American actor, writer, and film director, and the father of actor Robert Downey, Jr. He is best known as an underground filmmaker, serving as director and/or writer of such cult classics as Putney Swope, a biting satire… Read More

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Elsie Downey

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Robert Downey, Sr.

Age 78

children

Robert Downey, Jr.
Son, Age 48
Allyson Downey

Daughter

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The Strings That Tie A Family Together
Cinnaminson Patch - Sep 03, 2012

A passion passed on from father to son. That’s how Robert Riccardi Jr. describes the business he inherited, Riccardi's Violin Shop. Riccardi is a luthier, a craftsman who repairs or restores stringed instruments. Inside his garage on Hickstown Road in the Gloucester Township’s Sicklerville section, Riccardi gives new life to ailing upright basses, violins, violas and cellos. With the closing in recent years of bigger shops, such as Moenning & Son in Philadelphia, smaller o...
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Video Free Brooklyn Purchased By Local Film Critic
Carrol Gardens Patch - Jun 06, 2012

Video Free Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens’ last standing video store, has been saved by film critic Aaron Hillis, who purchased the store last week and plans to re-open after some renovations, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall). Hillis, who lives down the block from Video Free Brooklyn and was a loyal customer since it opened on Smith Street in 2002, admitted to the paper that the idea of owning a video store in the age of Netflix and iTunes was a little crazy, but hopes to set him...
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Legal Experts Weigh In On Effect Of Famu Band Member Statements In Hazing Death Case
Fox News - May 24, 2012

Band members' statements to investigators that a Florida A & M University drum major willingly got on a bus where he endured a beating with drumsticks, mallets and fists help explain why the nearly dozen defendants charged in his death face felony hazing counts and not more severe charges such as manslaughter and second-degree murder, legal experts say. Interviews with defendants in Robert Champion's killing and other band members released Wednesday paint the most detaile...
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Etan Thomas: Questions Surrounding The Trayvon Martin Case
Huffington Post - Apr 08, 2012

"I heard the yell for help, one yell for help, and then I heard another... excruciating type of yell. It didn't almost sound like 'help.' It just sounded so painful... two men on the grass, one on top of each other ... And then I heard the gunshots, which, to me, were more like pops than they were like a bang ... Within a couple of seconds after the shots, one of the men was walking toward where I was watching, and I could see him a little bit clearer. Could see that it was a Hispan...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1936 Birth Born on June 24, 1936.

TWENTIES

1961 25 Years Old 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. … Read More

THIRTIES

1970 34 Years Old Daughter Allyson and son Robert Jr. each made their film debuts in the 1970 absurdist comedy Pound at the ages of 7 and 5, respectively; Allyson would appear in one more film by her father, Up the Academy. … Read More

1975 39 Years Old Downey has been married three times. His first marriage was to actress Elsie Downey (née Ford), with whom he had two children: actress/writer Allyson Downey and actor Robert Downey, Jr. The marriage ended in divorce in 1975. Downey Sr.'s second marriage, to actress-writer Laura Ernst, ended with her 1994 death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1998 62 Years Old He currently lives in New York City with his third wife, Rosemary Rogers, whom he married in 1998. … Read More

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