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Robert Nelson

Directing · 1930–2012 · San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

Born in 1930 to a family of Swedish immigrants, Robert Nelson studied painting until changing his focus to concentrate on filmmaking in the early 1960s. Strong influences included the Bay Area bohemian Beat scene and the improvisatory theatre of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, with which he would ultimately collaborate on several films. His marriage to experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson also helped jumpstart his early filmmaking impulse and instigated many films.

Known for

Filmography

1998Hauling Toto BigDirector
1998Special WarningDirector
1988Mecca of the Frigid
1988LimitationsDirector
1982Hamlet ActDirector
1978Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back AgainDirector
1976Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death ValleyDirector
1974Deep Westurn
1973PicassoPablo Picasso
1971Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBobHimself
1970Bleu ShutDirector
1970King DavidDirector
1970Riverbody
1969Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
1968War is HellDirector
1967Grateful DeadDirector
1967The Awful BacklashDirector
1967Soup or SpreadDirector
19671/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 LumpyDirector
1967Gourley in 67Director
1967The Great BlondinoDirector
1967The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It OffButch Babad
1967Hot LeatheretteDirector
1967Penny Bright & Jimmy WitherspoonDirector
1965Oh Dem WatermelonsDirector
1965Confessions of a Black Mother SuccubaDirector
1965Sixty Lazy DogsDirector
1965T.P.I.Director
1965Oily Peloso the Pumph ManDirector
1965T.P.IIDirector
1963Plastic HaircutDirector

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