Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson

Known For: Directing

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: March 1, 1930

Day of Death: January 9, 2012 (82 years old)

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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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.