Category: Robert Downey Jr

Film Review: ‘Sr.’: The Older and Younger Downey Bare Their Souls

R | 1h30min | Documentary, Biography, Film History | 2 December 2022 (USA) Robert Downey Sr. and Jr. are one of the very few parent-child combinations working within the arts where the younger ended up becoming far more successful and well-known than the elder. In the documentary “Sr.,” father and son refer to (and address) each other as “Sr.” and “Jr.,”…


Filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. Dies at 85

Filmmaker and actor Robert Downey Sr., father of actor Robert Downey Jr., has died. He was 85. Downey Jr. wrote on Instagram that his father died late Tuesday in his sleep at home in New York. He had Parkinson’s disease for more than five years. Born in New York City in 1936 as Robert Elias…