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