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  • Top 10 Robert Downey Jr - 27 April 2010
    Than Zero- (1987)- After a few bit parts in projects like John Hughes’ Weird Science and TV’s Saturday Night Live, Robert Downey Jr got the critics’ attention with this 80s drama about wealthy young adults growing up in L.A. Downey’s role as the


  • The New Action Heroes - 1 May 2008
    - h2 {font-size:20px; color: #323334;} - -Five years ago, conventional wisdom held that Robert Downey Jr was all washed up. Sure, he was a fine actor - some said the best of his generation - but he had blown too many chances and burned too many bridges. What studio w


  • Guardian readers' top 10 of 2007 - 28 December 2007
    gs to Oxfam and began a trek into the Alaskan wilderness.-David Fincher's Zodiac came next at four, teaming Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr in an examination of a still-unidentified serial killer.-Control - a portrait of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis - was placed th

Robert Downey Jr - what members say


  • Zodiac
  • Zodiac review by PaulaWestwood from Mossley, Lancs
    Rated - 4.0 stars Good true life crime thriller... 19 May 2007
    ...intains your interest throughout. The main bonus for me was the performance of Robert Downey Jr as the maveric reporter Paul Avery, it was very watchable indeed. I would defi...   Read customer review
  • Love and Distrust
  • Love and Distrust review by A customer from Henlow, Beds, England
    Rated - 1.5 stars Misleading and Disappointing 25 March 2011
    ...hing a proper film in which Robert Pattinson, James Franco, Sam Worthington and Robert Downey Jr all star in together. In fact it is a few short films which have no connection ...   Read customer review

Robert Downey Jr - filmography


  • Zodiac - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Robert Downey Jr,  Chloe Sevigny
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    David Fincher's (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN) adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book masterfully transports viewers to the Bay Area in the 1960s and '70s by drawing on actual case files from the notoriously unsolved Zodiac killer mystery. As a murderer with seemingly random targets starts sending terrifying ..read more »
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  • Zodiac on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Robert Downey Jr,  Chloe Sevigny
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Robert Graysmith (Gyllenhaal)is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery (Downey Jnr.), a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes ..read more »
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Robert Downey Jr facts

5 most recent films

Love and Distrust - 1.5 stars
Zodiac - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Zodiac - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Zodiac - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Zodiac - 3.5 stars
Love and Distrust - 1.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Love and Distrust - 1.5 stars
Zodiac - 3.5 stars
Zodiac - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Pell James - 3 times - show films
Gary Oldman - 3 times - show films
Chloe Sevigny - 3 times - show films
Charles Fleischer - 3 times - show films
Brian Cox - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Fincher - 3 times - show films
Eric Kmetz - 2 times - show films
Darcy Yuille - 2 times - show films
Daisy Gili - 2 times - show films
Guy Ritchie - 1 times - show films