1983–1995: Beginnings and Critical Acclaim

Early struggle should be your ultimate badge of honour During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his father’s films. He made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the ab…

According to Deadline.com, Warner Bros is in the process of creating a musical comedy that is to feature Robert Downey Jr. and songs by NEXT TO NORMAL team Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. The project is still untitled.

Hollywood’s Iron Man does not need any introduction. Yes you have guessed it right. I am talking about Robert Downy Jr who is not only famous for his movies like Iron Man, The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes etc, but also renowned for his looks, charm, great acting skills. Downey made his first screen debut at the age of five in the film called ‘Pound’, which was directed by his father Robert Downey Sr. From the age of six he started taking drugs, for that he has been arrested for several times. It was told that his father Robert Downy Sr was a drug addict. He earned his first academy award nomination in the year of 1992 for his film “Chaplin”. Beside a wonderful acting career, Downey is also a good singer. He sang several soundtracks in his films such as ‘Chaplin’, ‘Too Much Sun’, ‘Two Girls and a Guy’, ‘Friends and Lovers’, ‘The Singing Detective’, and ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’.

There's a madness in his method

Downey began building upon theater roles, including in the short-lived off-Broadway musical "American Passion" at the Joyce Theater in 1983, produced by Norman Lear.

Plus: Merle Haggard on belly buttons, and how David Bowie feels about Hilary Duff.

After a public battle with his demons Robert Downey Jr is back, starring in the film version of The Singing Detective. Jon Wilde meets the clued-up star

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Directed by Emile Ardolino. With Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson. A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.

"Chances Are" comes from the same gene bank as all the other mind-swap and reincarnation movies recently, but the movie is smart and entertaining. It proves the underlying thesis of all film criticism, which is that movies are not about their stories, they're about how they're about their stories. Plots are easy. Style is everything. "Chances Are" is a lighthearted romance about reincarnation, told with wit and a certain irony.

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A flashback to 1990, when Robert Downey Jr. acted alongside Mel Gibson and dated Sarah Jessica Parker.

This is the trailer from the 1992 film "Chaplin" starring Robert Downey Jr.

"Chaplin," the screen biography of Charlie Chaplin, is the film you might have seen in your fearful mind's eye when it was announced as the next project for Richard Attenborough, the English director of "Oh! What a Lovely War," "Young Winston" and "Gandhi." "Chaplin" is thorough. It begins when Charlie is 5 in a London music hall and plows through the rest of his life, ending shortly before his death in Vevey, Switzerland, on Christmas Day 1977, at the age of 88.

While in pre-production for his Charlie Chaplin biopic, Sir Richard Attenborough surprised Hollywood studios with his choice of Robert Downey Jr. to play

His aura of languor isn't exactly studied, it's just kind of there, in the way he rises from the sofa with a disheveled elegance at 3 in the afternoon, his black tie loosened over a rumpled silk

`Let me see those questions," Robert Downey Jr. snaps, plopping down on a sofa at the start of this interview. He impishly tugs at the pages in my relentless grip.As soon as Downey surrenders, the

The above photograph of Robert Downey , Jr. was taken during the 1992 Republican National Convention, between August 17 and 20, 1992, at the...

Alex von Tunzelmann: This film about King Charles II and a fictional doctor flips messily from frippery and farting to 17th-century mental healthcare

Don't be put off by Robert Downey Jr. in the funny hat. And stick with director Michael Hoffman and writer Rupert Walters, who have adapted Rose Tremain's novel of the 17th century, with high-stakes ambitions for this lively, lavish and grandly acted pageant.

For all the talk nowadays about a revival of swank, nothing in contemporary fashion can compete with the glamour of upper-class English life in the 1930's as it is elegantly caricatured in Ian McKellen's updated "Richard III." The blase aristocrats who sweep through gilded marble halls, dressed to the nines and dangling cigarette holders from their gloved fingers, are a supremely pampered breed. They are just the sort who would tolerate a Fascist takeover of the country as long as it didn't disrupt their social schedule or cut into their incomes.

D. H. Lawrence, describing his own practice, wrote in a letter to a friend that “the old stable ego” in fictional characters was gone, replaced by an ego that goes through “allotropic states” -- that is, variations so striking that the reader has some difficulty in recognizing that the character is, in fact, a single individual.

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robert and mike get in a little spat at the houseparty. somebody gets smacked....

Robert Downey Jr. film guide entry for Black and White (2000)

In ''Jim,'' his 1971 standing-in-the-shadow-of-negritude biography of the football great Jim Brown, the white writer-director James Toback wrote, ''If there were a black boy anywhere in America whose vision of boyhood excluded both sports and entertainment, he was a freak, a mutation of consciousness.''