Robert Downey, Sr, has died at age 85. Parlayed work in underground film into a Hollywood career. Introduced his son to marijuana at an extremely young age. Putney Swope, Greaser's Palace and Up the Academy are perhaps his best-known films.
I remember seeing those movies at the video stores, but it was only in the last several years that I saw any of them.
He appeared as an actor in Boogie Nights and To Live and Die in L.A. among other things.
Several of his earlier films are available on the Criterion Channel.
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