Robert Nelson
Directing
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.
As actor 7
On the crew 26
Bleu Shut
1970
King David
1970
Deep Westurn
1974
Hamlet Act
1982
Special Warning
1998
Grateful Dead
1967
Limitations
1988
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
1976
Hot Leatherette
1967
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
1967
The Awful Backlash
1967
The Great Blondino
1967
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again
1978
Sixty Lazy Dogs
1965
War is Hell
1968
Hauling Toto Big
1998
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
1967
T.P.I.
1965
Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba
1965
T.P.II
1965
1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy
1967
Gourley in 67
1967
Oily Peloso the Pumph Man
1965
Soup or Spread
1967
Oh Dem Watermelons
1965
Plastic Haircut
1963