Directing

Robert Nelson

Born 1930-03-01

San Francisco, California, USA

Department: 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.

1976

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (38 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Hauling Toto Big	Director	Movie	1998
Special Warning	Director	Movie	1998
Mecca of the Frigid	Self / Appearance	Movie	1988
Limitations	Director	Movie	1988
Hamlet Act	Director	Movie	1982
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again	Director	Movie	1978
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley	Director	Movie	1976
Deep Westurn	Self / Appearance	Movie	1974
Deep Westurn	Director	Movie	1974
Picasso	Pablo Picasso	Movie	1973
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob	Himself	Movie	1971
Bleu Shut	Director	Movie	1970
King David	Director	Movie	1970
Riverbody	Self / Appearance	Movie	1970
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey	Self / Appearance	Movie	1969
War is Hell	Director	Movie	1968
Grateful Dead	Director	Movie	1967
The Awful Backlash	Director	Movie	1967
Soup or Spread	Director	Movie	1967
1/2 Bright, 1/2 Open, 1/2 Withered, 1/2 Lumpy	Director	Movie	1967
Gourley in 67	Director	Movie	1967
The Great Blondino	Director	Movie	1967
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off	Butch Babad	Movie	1967
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off	Director	Movie	1967
Hot Leatherette	Director	Movie	1967
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon	Director	Movie	1967
Half-Open & Lumpy	Director	Movie	1967
Oh Dem Watermelons	Director	Movie	1965
Oh Dem Watermelons	Writer	Movie	1965
Oh Dem Watermelons	Producer	Movie	1965
Oh Dem Watermelons	Cinematography	Movie	1965
Oh Dem Watermelons	Editor	Movie	1965
Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba	Director	Movie	1965
Sixty Lazy Dogs	Director	Movie	1965
T.P.I.	Director	Movie	1965
Oily Peloso the Pumph Man	Director	Movie	1965
T.P.II	Director	Movie	1965
Plastic Haircut	Director	Movie	1963