Robert Stevenson
Directing
Born 1905-03-31
Died 1986-04-30
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Robert Stevenson (31 March 1905, Buxton, Derbyshire – 30 April 1986) was an English film writer and director. He was educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society.
He moved to California in the 1940s and ended up directing 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical Mary Poppins, for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson received a nomination for Best Director Oscar.
Stevenson divorced his first wife Cecilie and married actress Anna Lee in 1934. They lived on London's Bankside for five years, moving to Hollywood in 1939, where he remained for many years. They had two daughters, Venetia and Caroline, before divorcing in March 1944.
He married Frances Holyoke Howard on October 8, 1944; they later divorced. They had one son, Hugh Howard Stevenson. Robert Stevenson's widow, Ursula Henderson, appeared as herself in the documentary Locked in the Tower: The Men behind Jane Eyre in 2007.
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Gunsmoke
Jane Eyre
Four Star Playhouse
Zorro
Mary Poppins
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Cavalcade of America
The Love Bug
The Wonderful World of Disney
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Old Yeller
Herbie Rides Again
On Trial
The Star and the Story
That Darn Cat!
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
The Gnome-Mobile
The Absent-Minded Professor
A Night in Montmartre
The Shaggy D.A.
Blackbeard's Ghost
The Island at the Top of the World
Christopher Closeup
Kidnapped
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Son of Flubber
In Search of the Castaways
General Electric Theater
Macao
Johnny Tremain
Back Street
Owd Bob
The Man Who Changed His Mind
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Forever and a Day
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Dishonored Lady
Greek Street
The Miracle on 34th Street
Little Friend
The Monkey's Uncle
Tudor Rose
My Forbidden Past
King Solomon's Mines
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic
Joan of Paris
Walk Softly, Stranger
Love on Wheels
The Woman on Pier 13
Know Your Ally: Britain
Tom Brown's School Days
To the Ends of the Earth
The Camels Are Coming
My Dog, the Thief
The Las Vegas Story
Windbag the Sailor
Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
The Case of the Frightened Lady
The Battle
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