Robert Downey Sr, the celebrated filmmaker and father of actor Robert Downey Jr, has died at the age of 85.
His 1970 film Pound marked the first acting credit of Robert Downey Jr, his son with Elsie Ann Downey, as Puppy.
Putney Swope served as a breakthrough, despite starting out – as Downey told The Village Voice – as “a film that nobody wanted”.
Robert Downey Jr paid tribute to his father in an Instagram post on Wednesday, writing: “Last night, Dad passed peacefully in his sleep after years of enduring the ravages of Parkinson’s …