Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Ten wins in a row followed — a streak during which he beat Sudenberg and was finally able to avenge his defeat at the hands of Downey, knocking him out in two rounds.

" Neither Robertson nor Downey were able to remember which songs Collins played on.

Other characters on San Pietro include the corrupt governor-general, Abel Vasquez ( played by Bert Rosario ), with whom Tarberry is able to make another deal, and island activist Danielle ( played by Roma Downey ), who is constantly trying to help protect the locals from the effects of Vasquez's corruption and is not above enlisting Tarberry's help in doing so.

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.

After the tour, and with the contract with Decca coming to an end, a disillusioned Downey quit the band and had to be begged to return.

On their return, Downey rejoined the band and at the beginning of 1979 they recorded Black Rose: A Rock Legend in Paris.

He decided to take on the role of lead vocals himself in the absence of Lynott, and persuaded Scott Gorham, Brian Downey and Darren Wharton to return to the fold.

After five years of substance abuse, arrests, rehab, and relapse, Robert Downey Jr. was finally ready to work toward a full recovery from drugs and a return to his career.

However, Michaels would not be the only member of the old guard to return: original writers Al Franken and Tom Davis would return as producers, and Jim Downey would be head writer.

The club received a huge financial boost from a sponsorship deal with Penzance-based JHB Oil in the summer of 1987, which also hailed the return of crowd-pleaser Dave Downey, along with fellow American compatriot Chris Hughey.

Calderdale were firm favourites for the match, and any chance of a Raiders upset disappeared when star player Downey accepted a big offer to move to Argentina and so the Raiders crashed to a 98-114 defeat without him.

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.

Robert John Downey, Jr. ( born April 4, 1965 ) is an American actor who made his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound.

And Variety said of it, " Affecting memories and good intentions don't always add up to good screen stories, and such is the case in 1969, one of the murkiest reflections on the Vietnam War era yet, notwithstanding good performances all around and bright packaging of Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr. in the leads.

It was directed by Robert Downey Sr., and starred Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Harry Teinowitz, Hutch Parker ( younger brother of Parker Stevenson and now known as movie executive J. Hutchison ), Tom Poston, Barbara Bach, Stacey Nelkin, Ralph Macchio ( his screen debut ) and King Coleman.

The police were initially aware of only three killings, those of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride.

Auditions were held for new members, and Lynott and Downey eventually settled on Glaswegian guitarist Brian Robertson who was only 18 years old at the time, and Californian Scott Gorham.

Downey stated that drug use became an emotional bond between him and his father: " When my dad and I would do drugs together, it was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how.

They not only reflect his “ sureness of hand ” as the curators David Ross and James Harithas noted ( Juan Downey: With Energy Beyond These Walls, p. 329 ), but also serve as compelling documents of his ideas and visions, and reveal this sustained practice of drawing over a lifetime.

Although this proved to be his only major role, he was overshadowed by his more famous co-star Anthony Michael Hall as well as future stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Bill Paxton.

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

The Bona Thompson Library at the intersection of Downey and University avenues, designed by architects Dupont and Johnson, is the only remaining building, although several buildings that housed faculty still remain, including the Benton House.

Fecteau was released unexpectedly following Nixon's visit to China in 1972, but Downey was released only after Washington publicly acknowledged their spy mission in 1973.

Until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Downey was the only governor of California who was not born in the United States.

" The man responded with a fist fight, broken up only when Downey supporters physically restrained his opponent.

When questioned, he reveals to his superior, Lord Downey, that he often used to lie awake in bed at night and think of ways to kill not only the Hogfather, but also the Tooth Fairy and the Soul Cake Tuesday Duck ( Discworld's version of the Easter Bunny ), among others ( including Death ).

He hired Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid, best known for his work in The Last Detail and National Lampoon's Vacation, as well as Joan Cusack and Robert Downey, Jr. Milestones included the first black female regular, Danitra Vance ( while Yvonne Hudson is considered the first black female cast member, she only served as a recurring extra in the 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 seasons, was hired as a feature player during the 1980-1981 season, and returned to being a recurring extra on an infrequent basis until the 1984-1985 season.

* At season's end Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid and Terry Sweeney are all fired, while Danitra Vance becomes the only one who quits out of frustration over being put in stereotypically black roles.

And Downey, for the most part using only his soulful, yearning eyes and a silky, urbane voice, creates a man no one could resist.