Robert Nelson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 1, 1930
- Died
- January 9, 2012 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- 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
Oh Dem Watermelons
Bleu Shut
The Great Blondino
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
Riverbody
Grateful Dead
Hamlet Act
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
Deep Westurn
The Awful Backlash
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
Photos
Filmography
Hauling Toto Big
Movie · Director
Special Warning
Movie · Director
Limitations
Movie · Director
Hamlet Act
Movie · Director
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again
Movie · Director
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
Movie · Director
Deep Westurn
Movie · Director
Bleu Shut
Movie · Director
King David
Movie · Director
War is Hell
Movie · Director
The Great Blondino
Movie · Director
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
Movie · Director
The Awful Backlash
Movie · Director
Hot Leatherette
Movie · Director
Grateful Dead
Movie · Director
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
Movie · Director
Soup or Spread
Movie · Director
1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy
Movie · Director
Gourley in 67
Movie · Director
Half-Open & Lumpy
Movie · Director
The Great Blondino Preview
Movie · Director
Oh Dem Watermelons
Movie · Director
Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba
Movie · Director
T.P.I.
Movie · Director
Sixty Lazy Dogs
Movie · Director
Oily Peloso the Pumph Man
Movie · Director
T.P.II
Movie · Director
Plastic Haircut
Movie · Director