# Robert Downey Sr.

> The man who made Putney Swope — a scorched-earth satire of Madison Avenue that became an underground touchstone — and taught his son what irreverence looked like before Hollywood got hold of him.

*American filmmaker and actor (1936–2021)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1936-06-24
- **Died:** 2021-07-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Robert John Downey Sr. was born Robert Elias Jr. on June 24, 1936, and spent the 1960s making what one scholar called "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs" — shoestring countercultural films that shoved against every polite boundary. In 1969 he released Putney Swope, a caustic takedown of the New York advertising world that became his signature. Three years later came Greaser's Palace, a surrealist Western that confirmed his taste for the absurd. The minimal budgets and outrageous satire defined an era's fringe, and the filmmaker raised a son who would carry some of that defiance into a very different kind of fame. He died on July 7, 2021.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.7 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
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## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Screenwriting, #Movies, #Film Directing, #United States, #Americas

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