The Pick-Up Artist (1987)

After a few minor parts, and some notable appearances on Saturday Night Live, Downey Jr. starred in rom-com The Pick-Up Artist .

RDJ plays Jack Jer♔icho, a serial womanizer, who falls for hard nut Randy Jensen (a girl, in case you were wondering).

Charm Factor: Charm-rate is set at💦 medium to high. Randy's a tough cookie, and it takes a lot of strenuous magnetism.

Plus, he's not nearly at h♔is prime. Che🎃ck out the floppy hair and chubby cheeks. Bless.

He gets there in ♉the end though. (He always does.)

Less Than Zero (1987)

Downey Jr. is Julian, a Berve🎶rly Hills Brat who takes a lot of drugs and is in a lot of debt.

It's thought that some of the antics Julian g🍬ets up to weren't a million miles away from what was happening in RDJ's personal life at the time.

Charm Factor: Do🌼wney Jr. proves that there is are few people in this wor🐻ld as charming as drug addicts persuing drugs, you know, before they go all sweaty and desperate.

He's looking a bit more dapper, too.

Chances Are (1989)

Alex Finch is the re-incarnation of Louie Jeffries, who was kill🐟e🌟d in 1964 but instantly re-born.

When Alex meets Corinne, Louie's widow, he remembers much of his past life. And then he starts going out with his sort-of daughter from his past-life marriage. Which is pretty messed up🎀.

Charm Factor : Just bear in mind that he's trying to woo mother and daughter.

And that the daughter is actually his daughter .

That's a pretty thick load of charm he's go👍t to layer on.

Soapdish (1991)

A satirical take on the cut-throat world of the soap opera, Soapdish centres around the fictional soap The Sun Also Sets , and features a host of pretty big names.

Do⛄wney Jr. is the show's sleazy producer, David, who conspires to༒ oust the show's longtime star, Celeste (Sally Field).

Charm Factor : David himself is charmed byℱ one of the show's stars, who offers herself to him on a plate if she'll help her to elbow out poor Celeste.

So he doesn't need to pu൲t๊ in much work there - but he's charming anyway, obviously.

Chaplin (1992)

As the film that proved Robert Downey Jr.'s status as a serious (and seriously good) actor, Chaplin received huge p🦩raise from critics.

It was RDJ's sensitive (not to mention, impressively accurate) pe𓆉rformance as Charlie Chaplin that gained the loudest applause.

Charm Factor: In character, Downey Jr. takes💝 on a different sort of charis🦹ma - he is naïve, earnest, and above all, very, very funny.

It's little wonder the whole world turns to pu🎉tty in his hand.

Short Cuts (1993)

Based on a series of short stories, Short Cuts was directed by Robert Altꦕman, and stars just abou🐎t every third actor in Hollywood.

Downey Jr. has a relatively small amount of screen-time, but make🍷s a fair impression as Bill Bush, a make-up ar🍌tist who's also a sadist.

He likes to paint fake injuries on his wife and wear extremely sho✤rt shorts.

Charm Factor : It's an odd one, because his chaဣracter isn't terribly likeable, though he softens up in the more intimite scenes with his wife.

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Oliver Stone’s super-violent, super-stylised flick was a satirical stab at the media, an💃d its glorification of violent crime.

Downey Jr.'s Wayne Gale is the A𝔉ustralian reporter who attempts to elevate the psychotic Mickey and Mallory to a celebrity status. Which is a bit like putting a pair of jackals in teddy bear costumes.

Charm Factor: He's charming enough to worm his way into a maximum s✅ecurity prison for an interview with Mickey (Woody Harrelson) himself.

However, it’s a clawing,ꦐ paparazzo kind of charm that kind of 📖makes you want to punch him in the face.

Restoration (1995)

Yay! A costume drama! RDJ done a costume drama!

He plays Merivel, Kinಌg Charles II's doctor. He has a terrible time - his wife dies and he has to give his baby to some nuns, on top of dealing with the plague and the Great Fire of London.

When it rains it pours , eh?

Charm Factor: Do♔wney Jr. sports a rather fetching hairstyle and a passable British accent, which gives him a new Colin Firth / Hugh Grant sort of charm.

He is a bit whiney though.

Two Girls And A Guy (1997)

It's a title that must have led to a considerable amount of online video-search d꧋isappoint🌠ment.

Carla 🦹a🥂nd Lou discover, when waiting for respective boyfriends one day, that they're dating the same guy. Guess who?!

Downey Jr. is෴ Blake, the eponymous Guy, who's having his cake and eating it.

Charm Factor: Even RDJ has a probl🥀em charming his way off this fish hook. He manages it, though𝐆.

Not only that - he ﷽even gets the girls to reveal that they, too, have been unfaithful. And makes them both want to have sex with him. God, he's good.

Wonder Boys (2000)

Something we learnt from Wonder Boys is that Rob🌠ert Downey Jr. makes a very convincing homosexual.

He plays Terry, publisher to Micha🌟el Douglas’ writer and college lecturer, Grady. Terry takes a shining to one of Grady’s most exceptional (though hugely impressionable) students, James (Toby Maguire).

He gets away w𝐆ith all sorts just by being ꦯirresistibly charming.

Charm Factor: Downey Jr. is on typical cheeky-chappy fo﷽rm, and his character’s overt sexuality bring😼s a new allure to the twinkle in his eye.

In short: Robert, you are a tart.