Richard Attenborough directed a film on Chaplin's life, Chaplin ( 1992 ), which starred Robert Downey, Jr. as Chaplin and also included Chaplin's oldest daughter Geraldine Chaplin playing his mother, Hannah Chaplin.

* 1933 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host ( d. 2001 )

* The Futurist, an album by actor Robert Downey, Jr., released in 2004

Spader's first major film role was in 1981 as Brooke Shields ' brother in Endless Love, and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf alongside good friend Robert Downey, Jr.

Morton Downey, Jr. ( December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001 ) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the " trash TV " format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

Legally named Sean Morton Downey, Jr., he dropped " Sean " from his stage name, as his father, Morton Downey had.

The film company Ironbound Films produced a biopic about Downey entitled Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which premiered April 19, 2012 at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

Downey's largest effect on American culture came from his popular, yet short-lived, syndicated late 1980s television talk show, The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

Downey headed to Secaucus, New Jersey, where his highly controversial television program The Morton Downey Jr. Show was taped.

In 1988, Downey recorded an album of songs based on his show, entitled Morton Downey Jr.

Morton Downey, Jr .' s parents were also in show business ; his father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mother, Barbara Bennett, was a singer and dancer.

Due for release in 2012, the biopic Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie will touch upon Downey's upbringing and formative years in radio and politics before launching into the history of The Morton Downey Jr. Show and Downey's influence on trash TV.

* Official Morton Downey, Jr.

* R. Downey, and D. Hirschfeldt ( 2010 ), Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity, monograph in preparation, Springer-Verlag.

They made fake identity documents which allowed them to visit bars at the weekend but also the local art house cinema – which though it typically showed pornographic films would on occasion feature underground films such as Robert Downey, Sr .' s Putney Swope and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls.

In 1986, Berry helped establish the Jan Berry Center for the Brain Injured in Downey, California.

Downey attended New York University.

Like his father, Downey pursued a career in music, recording in both pop and country styles.

In the 1980s, Downey was a talk show host at KFBK-AM in Sacramento, California, where he employed his abrasive style.

During one controversial episode Downey introduced his gay brother, Tony Downey, to his studio audience and informed them Tony was HIV positive.

During the episode Downey stated he was afraid his audience would abandon him if they knew he had a gay brother, but then said he did not care.

Some inconsistencies in Downey's account ( e. g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Downey had drawn it himself in a mirror ), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence, led many to suspect that the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention.

In 1990, Downey resurfaced on CNBC with an interview program called Showdown, which was followed by three attempted talk radio comebacks: first in 1992 on Washington, D. C. radio station WWRC ; then in 1993 on Dallas radio station KGBS, where he would scream insults at his callers.

The following year he returned to CNBC with a short-lived television show, Downey, that was similar in theme to his earlier, more popular show.

Downey refused to apologize and was forced to resign, with Rush Limbaugh taking his place.

Downey was sued for allegedly appropriating the words and music to his theme song from two songwriters.

Downey was married four times and had four children from three of those marriages.

According to Terry Pluto's book, Loose Balls, Downey was one of the owners of the New Orleans Buccaneers basketball team in the American Basketball Association in the late 1960s.

Downey was also president and co-founder of the proposed World Baseball Association in 1974.

In 1996, Downey was diagnosed with lung cancer and had one of his lungs removed.

In 2008, the film Tropic Thunder had Robert Downey Jr. in an Oscar nominated performance where he plays an Caucasian Australian actor who is so committed to method acting an African American character that he has his skin surgically darkened, much to the annoyed bemusement of his actual African American co-players in the cast.

Downey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal as Lazarus.

The series was nominated for eleven Primetime Emmy Awards between 1997 and 2000, including two nominations each for Downey and Reese in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series categories, respectively.

It was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, two in 1998 and 1999 for Downey for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series-Drama, and one in 1998 for Reese for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series.

Downey ( 1967 ) argues Greeley was nominated as a result of a crass political bargain imposed against the will of a convention that really wanted Charles Francis Adams.

What followed was starring roles in numerous films including Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr. ( 1992 ), Forever Young with Mel Gibson ( 1992 ), Oscar nominated Leaving Las Vegas, Hard Rain with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater ( 1998 ), SLC Punk!

In February 1990, Downey filed for bankruptcy in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey.

It marked his return to the Cleveland market, where Downey had been a host for crosstown radio station WERE ( 1300 AM ) in the early 1980s prior to joining KFBK.

Downey punched Stuttering John during an interview done for The Howard Stern Show.

The romance theme was later given lyrics, and became the pop standard " Smile ", first recorded by Nat King Cole and later covered by artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Trini Lopez, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Petula Clark, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux, Plácido Domingo and Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. ( included on the soundtrack for the film Chaplin ).

State arms sent from Governor John G. Downey for the unit were held up by Union officers at the port of San Pedro.

* In October 2009, Due Date with Robert Downey, Jr. filmed the car crash scene off the Rinconada bridge ; and the overpass of I-25 and Highway 70 for the escape from Mexico.

Pat Downey reportedly lived in this cabin for two years before he discovered Meydenbauer Bay.

In September 1888, Downey filed his final affidavit for a homestead claim, ( SE º of Section 30 in Township 25 N of Range 5 E ), and described the property as timbered agricultural land.

During this time Downey raised crops on about 11 acres of land for five seasons, including potatoes, oats, wheat and vegetables.

In 1888, Patrick Downey in his homestead claim cited Peter Buckley, John McRae, John Davis of Bellevue, Washington Territory and W. W. Easter of Seattle, Washington Territory as references for his claim.

Men working for I. P. Lambing ( superintendent at the mine ) of Golden, Colorado and Colonel Stephen W. Downey ( a lawyer and president of what would become Centennial Gold Mining Company ) of Laramie, Wyoming, discovered gold on what would become Centennial Ridge on Centennial Mountain in 1875.

In the 2012 film, The Avengers, Iron Man ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) drove an exotic sportscar by Acura, made specifically for the film, rather than the Audi R8 he previously drove.

Team Downey, the production company started by Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan Downey, has also expressed an interest in developing Yucatan for the screen.