Robert Downey Sr., the director of the innovative underground film "Putney Swope," an actor and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., has died. He was 85. Robert Downey Jr. announced on his Instagram ...

It’s no wonder Louis CK calls Robert Downey Sr. the filmmaker who influenced him the most. Downey’s films, which fall loosely into the category of comedy, seem to have been the template for Louie‘s ...

The Film: Putney Swope (1969), now available via The Criterion Collection's Up All Night With Robert Downey Sr. box set Why It’s an Inessential Essential: Filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. is probably more ...

Why were so many radical '60s movies set in not-so-radical places? In Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 underground touchstone Putney Swope, an advertising agency feels the full force of the revolution, as the ...

Editor’s note, December 15, 2025: In the November 21, 1968, issue of the Voice, readers of Howard Smith’s Scenes column received, in a long caption under a production photo, a sneak preview of a new ...

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In an outtake from upcoming documentary "Searching for Mr. Rugoff," the late Robert Downey Sr. talks about how his breakout film almost didn't find a buyer. The late Robert Downey spoke with veteran ...

Robert Downey Sr., the director of the innovative underground film “Putney Swope,” an actor and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., has died. He was 85. Robert Downey Jr. announced on his Instagram ...

After several years working along the margins of the underground film scene in New York, director Robert Downey broke through to wider recognition with the arthouse hit Putney Swope, a wildly ...