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 ...

The Film: Putney Swope (1969), now available via The Criterion Collection's Up All Night With Robert Downey Sr. box set Why It’s an Inessential Essential: Filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. is probably more ...

An unforgettable late-1960s counterculture masterpiece, Putney Swope remains a vital provocation on race, pop culture, and America. Putney Swope, the only African American exec at his ad firm, is ...

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 ...

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LOS ANGELES - Robert Downey Sr., the filmmaker known for classics such as "Putney Swope" and "Greaser’s Palace," as well as being the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died at age 85 after a lengthy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Downey Sr., the filmmaker known for classics such as "Putney Swope" and "Greaser’s Palace," as well as being the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died at age 85 after a lengthy battle with ...

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 ...