Robert Nelson
Directing
Born: 1930-03-01 · San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 2012-01-09
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.
🎬 Movies (30)
Hauling Toto Big
1998
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Special Warning
1998
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Mecca of the Frigid
1988
Limitations
1988
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Hamlet Act
1982
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Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again
1978
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Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
1976
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Deep Westurn
1974
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Picasso
1973
Pablo Picasso
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob
1971
Himself
Riverbody
1970
Bleu Shut
1970
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King David
1970
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Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
1969
War is Hell
1968
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The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
1967
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The Great Blondino
1967
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The Awful Backlash
1967
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Hot Leatherette
1967
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Grateful Dead
1967
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Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
1967
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Soup or Spread
1967
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1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy
1967
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Gourley in 67
1967
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Oh Dem Watermelons
1965
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Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba
1965
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T.P.I.
1965
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Sixty Lazy Dogs
1965
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Oily Peloso the Pumph Man
1965
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T.P.II
1965
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