Robert Nelson

Person

Robert Nelson

Directing March 1, 1930

San Francisco, California, USA

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…

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Bleu Shut

Bleu Shut

5.8 1970 Movie
Oh Dem Watermelons

Oh Dem Watermelons

6.1 1965 Movie
Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

9.0 1967 Movie
Riverbody

Riverbody

10.0 1970 Movie
The Great Blondino

The Great Blondino

4.6 1967 Movie
Deep Westurn

Deep Westurn

1974 Movie
Hamlet Act

Hamlet Act

7.0 1982 Movie
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off

The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off

4.0 1967 Movie
The Awful Backlash

The Awful Backlash

1967 Movie
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

1976 Movie
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

1971 Movie
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

1969 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1998
    Hauling Toto Big

    Movie Director

  2. 1998
    Special Warning

    Movie Director

  3. 1988
    Limitations

    Movie Director

  4. 1988
    Mecca of the Frigid

    Movie

  5. 1982
    Hamlet Act

    Movie Director

  6. 1978
    Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again

    Movie Director

  7. 1976
    Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley

    Movie Director

  8. 1974
    Deep Westurn

    Movie

  9. 1973
    Picasso

    Movie Pablo Picasso

  10. 1971
    Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob

    Movie Himself

  11. 1970
    Bleu Shut

    Movie Director

  12. 1970
    King David

    Movie Director

  13. 1970
    Riverbody

    Movie

  14. 1969
    Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey

    Movie

  15. 1968
    War is Hell

    Movie Director

  16. 1967
    Grateful Dead

    Movie Director

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  1. 1967
    The Awful Backlash

    Movie Director

  2. 1967
    Soup or Spread

    Movie Director

  3. 1967
    1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy

    Movie Director

  4. 1967
    Gourley in 67

    Movie Director

  5. 1967
    The Great Blondino

    Movie Director

  6. 1967
    The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off

    Movie Butch Babad

  7. 1967
    Hot Leatherette

    Movie Director

  8. 1967
    Half-Open & Lumpy

    Movie Director

  9. 1967
    Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon

    Movie Director

  10. 1965
    Oh Dem Watermelons

    Movie Director

  11. 1965
    Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba

    Movie Director

  12. 1965
    Sixty Lazy Dogs

    Movie Director

  13. 1965
    T.P.II

    Movie Director

  14. 1965
    T.P.I.

    Movie Director

  15. 1965
    Oily Peloso the Pumph Man

    Movie Director

  16. 1963
    Plastic Haircut

    Movie Director