Robert Nelson
Directing
- Born
- March 1, 1930 · San Francisco, California, USA
- Died
- January 9, 2012 (age 81)
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
August 13, 1965
Bleu Shut
March 20, 1970
The Great Blondino
April 13, 1967
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
January 1, 1967
Grateful Dead
December 28, 1967
Hamlet Act
February 16, 1982
The Awful Backlash
August 13, 1967
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
January 1, 1976
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
January 1, 1967
Plastic Haircut
March 1, 1963
Deep Westurn
June 5, 1974
Behind the camera28
- 1998Hauling Toto Big Director
- 1998Special Warning Director
- 1988Limitations Director
- 1982Hamlet Act Director
- 1978Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again Director
- 1976Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley Director
- 1974Deep Westurn Director
- 1970Bleu Shut Director
- 1970King David Director
- 1968