Director
Robert Nelson
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 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.
Often works with
Full filmography · 14
Hauling Toto Big
Director
1998Mecca of the Frigid
cast
1988
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
Director
1976
Deep Westurn
cast and Director
1974
Bleu Shut
Director
1970
Riverbody
cast
1970
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
cast
1969
Grateful Dead
Director
1967
The Awful Backlash
Director
1967
The Great Blondino
Director
1967
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
as Butch Babad and Director
1967
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
Director
1967