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3 unusual facts about Robert Downey, Jr.


Brian Yorkey

Yorkey is currently writing the original musical SCORE!, with Robert Downey, Jr. attached to star, which is set up at Warner Bros. with Anonymous Content and Team Downey producing.

HTC

In August 2013, HTC debuted a new "Here's To Change" global marketing campaign featuring actor Robert Downey, Jr., who signed a two-year contract to be HTC's new "Instigator of Change."

Will Houston

He appeared as Constable 'Clarky' Clarke in the 2009 film 'Sherlock Holmes' alongside Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law,directed by Guy Ritchie (credited as William Houston)


Anthony Peckham

In 2009, Peckham wrote the screenplays to two high-profile releases: the Clint Eastwood-directed Nelson Mandela biopic Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, and Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr..

Chi McBride

McBride portrayed eight different characters in the play Nagataki Sake, directed by Robert Downey, Sr.

Danitra Vance

Vance ultimately chose to leave SNL at the end of the 1986 season (along with many other cast members from that season who were dismissed, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, and Terry Sweeney—this last, another homosexual cast member, recruited for the 1985-1986 cast, was the show's only gay male to be hired as of 2012.

Greaser's Palace

Robert Downey, Jr., the son of the writer-director of the film, has an uncredited role as a Quasimodo-like child.

Greaser's Palace is a 1972 American acid western cult film directed by underground filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. A parable based on the life of Christ, it is full of references about the destruction of the world.

Hunter Scott

In 2011, Warner Bros. obtained the rights to develop the story into a feature film with Robert Downey, Jr. as producer.

Maggie Cassella

Over the years Cassella has interviewed comedy legends such as Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers, as well as performers such as William H. Macy, Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robert Downey, Jr., Laura Linney, Eartha Kitt and k.d. lang.

MIT class ring

Iron Man: Lieutenant Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes (played by Terrence Howard) and Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) both wear the Brass Rat, visible on their fingers.

Robert Downey

Robert Downie, Scottish recipient of the VC for leading a major charge in World War I

Robert Downey, Sr.

His father, Robert Elias, was of Russian Jewish descent, and his mother, Betty McLoughlin, was of Irish Catholic background.

Sam Hurwitz

His credits in short films include Writer, Producer, and Director of the Robert Downey, Jr. short, Deadwait, A Life in The Day starring Charlie Sheen, Comicitis with Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg and Susan Dey, and the award winning Another Flush, which garnered official selections and/or awards in eight film festivals worldwide.

Soapdish

It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy Najimy, and Carrie Fisher, as well as cameo appearances by TV personalities like Leeza Gibbons, John Tesh (both playing themselves as Entertainment Tonight hosts/reporters), real-life soap opera actors, Stephen Nichols and Finola Hughes and Ben Stein.

Team Downey

Team Downey is an American production company founded by Robert Downey, Jr. and Susan Downey that produces film and television properties.


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