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Bob Rafelson
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: February 21, 1933 in New York City, NY Biography:The nephew of famed playwright "Samson Raphaelson", American director "Bob Rafelson" decided to forego the expensive education planned for him and take up cross-country vagabondage instead. He worked in a rodeo at 15, became an ocean-liner deckhand two years later, and a jazz drummer a year after that. He entered Dartmouth College, after which he worked as a deejay on an Armed Forces radio outlet. As a writer, Rafelson toiled in numerous New York-based TV shows, then travelled westward to try his luck in Hollywood. His breezy, patchwork writing style was perfectly suited to the "Beatles"-like TV sitcom "The Monkees" (1966-67), wherein Rafelson worked as writer, director, and coproducer (with "Bert Schneider"). In concert with then-partner "Jack Nicholson", Rafelson penned the script for the surrealistic Monkees feature film "Head" (1968), which he also directed. The film was suitable impetus to the... Full Biography
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