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.

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.

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.

Downey also had a stint on WMAQ-AM in Chicago where he unsuccessfully tried to get other on air radio personalities to submit to drug testing.

Notable pioneering video artists also emerged more or less simultaneously in Europe and elsewhere with work by Domingo Sarrey ( Spain ), Juan Downey ( Chile ), Wolf Vostell ( Germany ), Slobodan Pajic ( France ), Wolf Kahlen ( Germany ), Peter Weibel ( Austria ), David Hall ( UK ), Paul Wong ( Artist ) ( Canada ), Lisa Steele ( Canada ), Colin Campbell ( Canada ), Miroslaw Rogala ( Poland ), Danny Matthys, Chantal Akerman ( Belgium ), Akram Zaatari ( Lebanon ), Mireille Astore ( Lebanon / Australia ) and others.

As miners and prospectors started coming to the area, to work the Centennial Mine ( also called the Downey Load and Centennial Vein ), they reestablished a community on the old work camp site in 1876 and named the town Centennial in honor of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and founding of the United States.

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.

Lynott also undertook another solo tour, accompanied by Downey and Sykes, under the name of The Three Musketeers.

Sykes and Downey initially agreed to be a part of the band, but Sykes joined Whitesnake and Downey also changed his mind.

Another version of Thin Lizzy was formed later that year by John Sykes ( now also performing lead vocals ) with Downey, Gorham and Wharton, and with bass parts played by Marco Mendoza, who had played with Sykes in Blue Murder from 1991 – 93.

The performance also featured Brian Downey, Eric Bell, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham.

His father, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie ( née Ford ), is also an actress and appeared in Downey Sr .' s films.

Downey also received great notice for his roles in more mainstream fare such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Disney's poorly received The Shaggy Dog, and David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, in which he played San Francisco Chronicle journalist Paul Avery.

Alternative Press writer Ryan Downey notes that contemporary psychobilly also draws from other rock genres and subgenres: " Driven by the rhythmic pounding of a stand-up bass, the music swings with the snarl of punk rock while sometimes thrashing alongside speed metal or crashing headlong into country icon Hank Williams.

In time hydrodynamic improvements took place, pioneered by George Downey who also created the first removable skeg, a teak wood skeg in a teak wood box which was supposed to hold in place due to the swelling of woods in water.

It also moved into a former Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft plant at Downey, California, and in 1948, built a new plant at Downey.

He is recognized as an early adopter of video art ; however, during his artistic career Downey created an extensive body of work that also includes electronic and video sculptures, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, installation and writing.

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.

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

Dave Alvin ( born November 11, 1955, in Downey, California ), is a Grammy award winning guitarist, singer and songwriter and a proponent of Americana music.

Allan was introduced to songwriter / producer Byron Hill on August 28, 1993 by a mutual friend and talent-scout Jim Seal, at a bar called the Lion D ' or in Downey, California, where Allan was already regularly performing.

In 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero.

He made his feature film debut in 1984's thriller Firstborn, starring alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey, Jr. as a boy whose family comes under threat from his mother's violent boyfriend, played by Peter Weller.

They meet with Lord Downey, head of the Assassin's Guild, and commission the services of Mr Teatime, whose particular brand of insane genius makes him an ideal candidate for the assassination of the Hogfather and other anthropomorphic personifications.

* Nathaniel Ayers, schizophrenic musician whose life was used as a basis for the movie The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.

* Aer Lingus Flight 164 from Dublin to London was hijacked by Laurence James Downey, whose motive was to learn the 3rd of the Three Secrets of Fátima.