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Robert Jay Rafelson (February 21, 1933 – July 23, 2022) was an American film director, writer and producer. He is regarded as one of the key figures in the founding of the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s.
Jul 25, 2022 · Released at last from the military, Rafelson toyed with the idea of doing his master’s degree in philosophy at Benares University, but decided instead to go back to New York and capitalise on his experience in radio, which he did, for CBS.
Aspiring filmmaker Bob Rafelson developed the initial idea for The Monkees in 1962 and tried selling it to Revue, the television division of Universal Pictures, but was unsuccessful. [6] In May 1964, while working at Screen Gems , Rafelson teamed up with Bert Schneider , whose father, Abraham Schneider, headed the Colpix Records and Screen Gems Television units of Columbia Pictures .
Jul 24, 2022 · Bob Rafelson, the writer, director, producer and maverick who set the tone for the swinging, psychedelic 1960s with The Monkees, then was a pioneer in one of the most influential eras in the...
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Jul 27, 2022 · As producer on Easy Rider, director of Five Easy Pieces and co-inventor of The Monkees, Bob Rafelson, who has died aged 89, was at the forefront of Hollywood’s late-60s embrace of the counterculture.
Apr 14, 2009 · In 2006, Bob Rafelson was invited by the International Film School in Köln to hold an acting workshop on the use of monologue in film. Rainer Knepperges and Franz Müller attended the class and subsequently took the opportunity to speak to him on a range of topics.
Jul 25, 2022 · Ten days into shooting the Robert Redford prison drama “ Brubaker ” in 1978, Rafelson was fired (there were rumors that he actually went so far as to punch out a high-ranking Fox executive during an argument) and eventually filed a breach-of-contract suit against the studio.
