Bob Rafelson, “Five Easy Pieces” director and icon of New Hollywood, dies at 89
Bob Rafelson, the filmmaker whose strange and often surreal projects helped shape him into a leading figure of the New Hollywood movement, died on Saturday night, his family said. He was 89. Rafelson had been battling lung cancer, said his wife, Gabrielle Rafelson, and died surrounded by family in his Colorado home.
profile. Arguably his most fruitful partnership with an actor, though, was the one he enjoyed as a director with Jack Nicholson, with whom he made seven films, including 1970’s“I may have thought I started his career,” Nicholson, a three-time Oscar winner, told
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