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