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Rob Nilsson is a filmmaker, poet, and painter, best known for his feature film Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson and winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (1979). He also is known for directing and playing the lead role in Heat and Sunlight, produced by Steve and Hildy Burns, also featuring Consuelo Faust, Don Bajema and Ernie Fosseliius. Heat and Sunlight won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988, and his 9 @ Night Film Cycle won the 2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Marlon Riggs Award for Courage and Vision in Cinema. Nilsson has also received Lifetime Achievement awards from the Fargo International Film Festival, the St. Louis International Film Festival, the Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee, the Master's Award from the Golden Apricot Film Festival, a Filmmaker of the Year Award from the Silver Lake Film Festival, and the Milley Award from the city of Mill Valley for accomplishment in the Arts.
Born
Sunday, 29 October 1939
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Overwhelm the Sky | Jim Salisbury (Radio Guest) | 2019 |
Sacred Blood | Ruthven | 2018 |
Love Twice | Screenplay Presence | 2016 |
Used | Kenny | 2008 |
...and on the 7th Day, God Rocked | Secular Heckler | 2008 |
Berkeley | Coach | 2007 |
Cine Manifest | Self | 2006 |
Need | Photographer | 2005 |
Dancing at the Harvest Moon | Dean Jim Rogers | 2002 |
Clouds | Frank | 2000 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Overwhelm the Sky | Jim Salisbury (Radio Guest) | 2019 |
Sacred Blood | Ruthven | 2018 |
Love Twice | Screenplay Presence | 2016 |
Used | Kenny | 2008 |
...and on the 7th Day, God Rocked | Secular Heckler | 2008 |
Berkeley | Coach | 2007 |
Cine Manifest | Self | 2006 |
Need | Photographer | 2005 |
Dancing at the Harvest Moon | Dean Jim Rogers | 2002 |
Clouds | Frank | 2000 |
The Inheritance | Minister | 1997 |
Tell Me No Secrets | Detective | 1997 |
Profiler | Chief Bennett | 1996 |
Amanda | Jim Sanders | 1996 |
Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge | Glen Judd | 1995 |
Copycat | SWAT Commander | 1995 |
Words for the Dying | Self | 1993 |
Beverly Hills, 90210 | Lowell | 1990 |
Rainbow Drive | Older Cop | 1990 |
Dead Solid Perfect | Writer #2 | 1988 |
Baja Oklahoma | Chuck | 1988 |
Heat and Sunlight | Mel Hurley | 1988 |
Miami Vice | Wango Mack | 1984 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Love Twice | 2016 |
A Bridge to a Border | 2014 |
Collapse | 2013 |
What Happened Here? | 2012 |
Sand | 2010 |
Imbued | 2009 |
Used | 2008 |
Presque Isle | 2008 |
Need | 2005 |
Attitude | 2003 |
Scheme C6 | 2001 |
Winter Oranges | 2000 |
Singing | 2000 |
A Town Has Turned to Dust | 1998 |
Chalk | 1996 |
Words for the Dying | 1993 |
The Street | 1988 |
Heat and Sunlight | 1988 |
Signal Seven | 1986 |
On the Edge | 1985 |
American Playhouse | 1982 |
Northern Lights | 1978 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Love Twice | 2016 |
A Bridge to a Border | 2014 |
Collapse | 2013 |
What Happened Here? | 2012 |
Imbued | 2009 |
Used | 2008 |
Presque Isle | 2008 |
Scheme C6 | 2001 |
Bill's Gun Shop | 2001 |
Winter Oranges | 2000 |
Singing | 2000 |
Words for the Dying | 1993 |
On the Edge | 1985 |
American Playhouse | 1982 |
Northern Lights | 1978 |