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> Robert Downey Sr, the director best known for 1969 satire Putney Swope, has died at the age of 85.The film-maker had been diagnosed with Parkinson's for more than five years and died in his sleep at home in New York.His son, actor Robert Downey Jr, paid tribute to him on Instagram.
> Downey Sr's most celebrated work was the 1969 film Putney Swope, which starred Arnold Johnson as the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm who is accidentally put in charge.
> Paul Thomas Anderson and Jim Jarmusch have cited the film as a major inspiration and in 2016, it was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "Culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
> He also directed episodes of The Twilight Zone."It was just fun," Downey Sr said of his early film-making days in a 2016 interview.
> Downey Sr also appeared as an actor in small roles in Boogie Nights, The Family Man and Tower Heist.
> He is survived by children Allyson Downey and Robert Downey Jr and wife Rosemary Rogers.
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