Description:
Talk-show host and songwriter ("Because We're Young", "Hearts Are Wild"), composer, author, actor and singer, educated at New York University (BS) and a two-year Law School student. He was a program director and announcer at WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut, and later made several records under his birth name. Joining ASCAP in 1960, his other popular-song compositions include "Now I Lay Me Down to Cry", "Ballad of Billy Brown", "Flattery", and "Don't Mention My Name".
Birthday
December 9, 1932
Born In
Los Angeles, California, USA
Height
174 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Lori Krebs March 20, 1993 - March 12, 2001 (his death),Kim Loretta Cotten March 18, 1978 - 1989 (divorced),Joan Ann Tyrrell March 19, 1963 - August 31, 1978 (divorced),Helen Marie Rowan January 22, 1954 - December 1959 (divorced)
Children
Melissa Ellen Downey
Trivia
Son of singer Morton Downey and dancer Barbara Bennett
Quotes
Baseball as presently played and structured is a bore.
Nickname
Mort the Mouth
Trademarks
Chain-smoking talk show host
