Robert Downey Sr.
Birthday: 24 June 1935, USA
Birth Name: Robert John Elias Jr.
Height: 191 cm
Robert Downey Sr. served in the army, played minor-league baseball, was a Golden Gloves champion and off-off Broadway playwright, all before he was 22 years old.Downey was born in New York City, New Y ...Show More
[describing his childhood]: It was like a bad version of "The Catcher In The Rye". My mother was gro Show more
[describing his childhood]: It was like a bad version of "The Catcher In The Rye". My mother was groovy-looking and was married four times. I got booted out of three prep schools - St.Paul's, Peddie and Lawrenceville - and never got past the ninth-and-a-half grade. I was on athletics scholarships and I never went to classes. Hide
[on his army service]: One of the times I fucked up was at an early warning radar post on Prince of Show more
[on his army service]: One of the times I fucked up was at an early warning radar post on Prince of Wales (Island), near the International Dateline. The lieutenant was asleep. So this other guy, from the Bronx, and I disconnected the phone back to Fairbanks. And we drew on the plotting board all these arrows representing bombers coming from Siberia. I woke up the lieutenant and he panicked. He went out of his skull. We let him stew awhile, and then we told him it was a joke. He was so happy, he laughed and cried and hugged us. Then he testified at our court-martial. Hide
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Robert Downey Sr.'S roles
Thomas Bateman
Man in House