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 ...

Editor’s note, December 15, 2025: In the November 21, 1968, issue of the Voice, readers of Howard Smith’s Scenes column received, in a long caption under a production photo, a sneak preview of a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Downey Sr., the director of the innovative underground film “Putney Swope,” an actor and the father of actor Robert Downey ...

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 ...

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 ...

WHEN Robert Downey was working as the "house freak" in a Madison Avenue ad agency a few years ago, an expert was paid $28,000 to come and tell the agency how to sell a particular beer. When the big ...

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Robert Downey Sr., the director of the anti-establishment satirical classic Putney Swope and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died early today in his sleep at home in New York City. He was 85.

Why were so many radical '60s movies set in not-so-radical places? In Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 underground touchstone Putney Swope, an advertising agency feels the full force of the revolution, as the ...

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 ...