Robert Downey Sr. Dies , and his son Robert Downey Jr. pays his tribute

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Veteran actor and director Robert Downey Sr. passed away in his sleep on Wednesday after years of battling Parkinson’s, his son, Avengers star Robert Downey Jr. announced. He was 85.

RDJ took to Instagram to pay a heartfelt tribute to his father, best know for his 1969 satire film Putney Swope. “Last night, dad passed peacefully in his sleep after years of enduring the ravages of Parkinson’s,” said Downey Jr.

“He was a true maverick filmmaker who remained surprisingly cheerful throughout,” he said, mentioning his stepmother in particular.

“He was a true maverick filmmaker who remained surprisingly cheerful throughout,” he said, mentioning his stepmother in particular.

The most well-known work of Downey Sr. The film Putney Swope, starring Arnold Johnson as the lone black man on the executive board of an advertising agency who is unintentionally put in control, has been acclaimed as being “culturally, historically, or artistically significant.”

In the 1970 film Pound, which featured humans playing dogs waiting to be adopted, he handed his now-Hollywood star son his first acting role.

Downey Sr. also directed various episodes of The Twilight Zone and had minor appearances in films such as Boogie Nights, Tower Heist, and others.

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