Robert John Downey, Jr., born in 1965, is an American actor, producer, singer, songwriter. Downey made his screen debut in 1970, at the age of five, when he appeared in his father's film Pound, and has worked consistently in film and television ever since. Among his famous performances, Chaplin (Richard Attenborough, 1992), Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel, 2006), A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006), Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007), and the Iron Man saga.