Five Easy Pieces screenwriter Carole Eastman, for the film Man Trouble. In 1996, he made his sixth and final with Nicholson, Blood and Wine. His last films were 1998's Poodle Springs and 2002's No Good Deed, based on works by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, respectively. No Good Deed was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. Rafelson and Nicholson collaborated on film projects for almost 30 years. Rafelson has been honored at numerous international film festivals, including in Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Greece, Japan, Serbia and Turkey, and has given many masterclasses. He has contributed commentaries or interviews to the DVD or Blu-ray releases of Head, Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, Stay Hungry, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Blood and Wine. Rafelson has also contributed essays to the Los Angeles Times Magazine and John Brockman's collection The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years. Personal life Bob Rafelson married Toby Carr in 1955. They lived near Aspen, Colorado, in a house "built in the '50s by a climber and his 11-year-old son" that Rafelson bought in 1970. "We live here and nowhere else," he said. Rafelson's 10-year-old daughter Julie died of injuries when a propane stove exploded in the Rafelsons' Aspen home in August 1973. Shortly after that Toby Rafelson was diagnosed with cancer, but eventually recovered. While they later divorced, they remained close friends, and Rafelson referred to his first wife as his "head nurse, teacher, brujo." His eldest son is songwriter Peter Rafelson, who wrote the song "Open Your Heart", which became a hit for Madonna. Rafelson married Gabrielle Taurek in 1999; the couple had two sons, E.O. and Harper. He died from lung cancer at his home in Aspen on July 23, 2022, at the age of 89. Filmography Films As uncredited producer Easy Rider The Last Picture Show The Mother and the Whore Television References External links "Bob Rafelson and His Odd American Places" interview and essay by Peter Tonguette "The Monologist and the Fighter: An Interview with Bob Rafelson" by Rainer Knepperges and Franz Müller, Senses of Cinema. Sight and Sound magazine interview 1933 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American screenwriters American male screenwriters Dartmouth College alumni Deaths from cancer in Colorado Deaths from lung cancer in the United States Film directors from Colorado Film directors from Los Angeles