Robert downey jr

Year Title Role Notes Ref. 1970 Puppy 1972 Small Boy in Covered Wagon Uncredited 1975 Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight Himself Uncredited; aka Moment to Moment 1980 Boy on Soccer Team Uncredited 1983 Stewart 1984 Lee 1985 Jimmy Parker 1985 Punk Party Crasher Uncredited 1985 Ian 1985 Deadwait None 1986 Derek Lutz 1987 Jack Jericho 1987 Julian Wells 1988 Leo Wiggins 1988 Wolf Dangler 1988 Ralph Karr 1988 1989 Roger Baron 1989 Alex Finch / Louie Jefferies 1990 Billy Covington 1991 Reed Richmond 1991 David Seton Barnes 1992 1993 Thomas Reilly 1993 Himself Documentary; also writer 1993 Bill Bush 1994 Jerry 1994 Wayne Gale 1994 Peter Wright 1995 1995 Tommy Larson 1995 Robert Merivel 1996 Jim Scott 1997 Charlie 1997 Blake Allen 1997 Franz Mazur 1998 Clyde Pell 1998 Special Agent John Royce 1999 Vivian Thompson 1999 Hans 1999 Jerry Renfro 1999 Terry Donager 2000 Terry Crabtree 2002 Lethargy Animal therapist Short film 2003 Whatever We Do Bobby Short film 2003 Dan Dark 2003 Himself Documentary 2003 Pete Graham 2004 Nick Penrose Segment: "Equilibrium" 2005 Steven Schwimmer 2005 Harry Lockhart 2005 Himself Documentary 2005 2005 Narrator Documentary 2006 Also co-producer 2006 Dr. Kozak 2006 James Barris 2006 Lionel Sweeney 2007 2007 Telephone Jack 2007 Principal Nathan Gardner 2008 2008 Tony Stark / Iron Man Uncredited cameo; mid-credits scene 2008 Kirk Lazarus 2009 2009 2010 Tony Stark / Iron Man 2010 Rob Segment: "Auto Motives" 2010 Peter Highman 2011 Sherlock Holmes 2012 Tony ...

The actor, 57, looked completely unrecognizable as he was snapped on the show's Los Angeles set. While sporting receding, curly red hair and bleached eyebrows, he donned the familiar old-man attire of a burgundy jacket and pink shirt with a white T-shirt peeking out. He also had on navy pants and brown shoes.

Maisel, who pioneered the Marvel Cinematic Universe, told Casting Iron Man was a difficult choice, but the title role ultimately came down to Robert Downey Jr. and Timothy Olyphant. Marvel's board had some reservations about choosing Downey Jr., who, as the outlet points out, was "in a career slump after years of drug arrests and rehab." Maisel, however, was confident that Downey Jr. was the right choice. He and Jon Favreau, the director of Iron Man, advocated for Downey Jr. to take the lead role, but the board thought it was a "crazy" decision and needed further convincing to sign off on the casting choice. "My board thought I was crazy to put the future of the company in the hands of an addict," Maisel admitted in speaking to the outlet. "I helped them understand how great he was for the role. We all had confidence that he was clean and would stay clean." Iron Man was Favreau directed Downey again in Iron Man 2 before handing the character's solo adventures to Shane Black. The Iron Man films are available on Disney+, along with most other MCU entries, including

Despite Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and the unshakeable respect of film critics and his acting peers, Robert Downey, Jr. insisted that he was not really an actor, just a good hustler who had found a way to make a living. If he did not believe he was acting, it was certainly reflected in his seamless skills, which were full of natural, physical expressiveness. After making himself known as the drug-addicted antihero of "Less Than Zero" (1987), Downey delivered an uncanny portrayal of beloved silent film star "Chaplin" (1992), which earned him some of the highest praise of his career. But his gift had always been to transform a regular person into a creatively-detailed and thoroughly engrossing star of the show, often complete with memorable quirks. Even in his early roles in teen comedies, Downey stood out above his Brat Pack peers for his spontaneous energy and apparent fearlessness in exposing his very fragile inner workings. Though he made headlines for his manic portrayal of a tabloid TV journalist in "Natural Born Killers" (1994) and a gay book editor in "Wonder Boys" (2000), Downey unfortunately became more famous for his longtime drug addictions and numerous run-ins with the law. He eventually emerged from almost certain tragedy by attaining sobriety and re-launching his flagging career with a blockbuster starring turn in the hit "Iron Man" (2008), while earning laughs as a chameleon-like actor in "Tropic Thunder" (2008), which only confirmed that the public l...

• Entertainment • Movies Robert Downey Jr. and Late Dad Get Candid About Becoming 'Stuck' in 'Drug-Culture Life' in 'Sr.' Doc Robert Downey Jr. recalled in the Netflix documentary that he was "playing a game of just wanting to self-soothe or just stay loaded rather than deal with the fact that things had gone off the tracks a little bit" He recalled becoming addicted around the time he made the 1987 film Less Than Zero. "It was just a wild era," said Downey Jr. "That whole world, it gets tied into creativity. We were all altering our consciousness with substances. I was just kinda playing a game of just wanting to self-soothe or just stay loaded rather than deal with the fact that things had gone off the tracks a little bit." In an archive interview featured in the doc, Downey Sr. says while Downey Jr. is next to him: "A lot of us did things and thought it would be hypocritical to not have our kids participate in marijuana and stuff like that. So we thought it was cute to let 'em smoke it and all that. It was an idiot move on our parts, a lot of us, to share that with out children." "We were all sitting around, smoking grass and playing poker down in the old West Village loft, and Robert was staring at me kind of funny — Robert was always an observer of it all, even at a very young age. And I go, 'You know, you ought to try a little of this instead of drinking.' I passed him a joint," he recalled at the time. "And suddenly I knew I had made a terrible, stupid mistake."