Robert Nelson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1 March 1930 · San Francisco, California, USA
- Died
- 9 January 2012
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
Directing 28
- 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
- 1968War is Hell · director
- 1967Grateful Dead · director
- 1967The Awful Backlash · director
- 19671/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy · director
- 1967Soup or Spread · director
- 1967Gourley in 67 · director
- 1967The Great Blondino · director
- 1967The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off · director
- 1967Hot Leatherette · director
- 1967The Great Blondino Preview · director
- 1967Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon · director
- 1967Half-Open & Lumpy · director
- 1965Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba · director
- 1965Oh Dem Watermelons · director
- 1965Sixty Lazy Dogs · director
- 1965T.P.I. · director
- 1965T.P.II · director
- 1965Oily Peloso the Pumph Man · director
- 1963Plastic Haircut · director
Acting 7
- 1988Mecca of the Frigid
- 1974Deep Westurn
- 1973Picasso as Pablo Picasso
- 1971Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob as Himself
- 1970Riverbody
- 1969Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
- 1967The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off as Butch Babad
crew 1
- 1965Oh Dem Watermelons · cinematography
Editing 1
- 1965Oh Dem Watermelons · editor
Writing 1
- 1965Oh Dem Watermelons · writer
Production 1
- 1965Oh Dem Watermelons · producer