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 ...

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 ...

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LOS ANGELES - Robert Downey Sr., the filmmaker known for classics such as "Putney Swope" and "Greaser’s Palace," as well as being the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died at age 85 after a lengthy ...

An unforgettable late-1960s counterculture masterpiece, Putney Swope remains a vital provocation on race, pop culture, and America. Putney Swope, the only African American exec at his ad firm, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

On August 1, 2006, Image Entertainment will release Putney Swope on DVD. The underground sensation of the '60s (and a work of Robert Downey, Sr.) revolves around a black man that's elected CEO of a ...

Eight months later, readers with a good memory might have been intrigued by an ad in the July 10, 1969, Voice: In that same issue, Robert Downey, Sr. himself sat down with Jonas Mekas, the Voice’s ...

I ASK YOU: What's going on here? Someone I've never seen before in my life walks into my bedroom, where I'm talking with three other people, asks for a cigarette, smokes it and leaves. No one knows ...