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Robert Stevenson

Known for: Directing

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Stevenson (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

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Mary Poppins 1964Movie Director
Old Yeller 1957Movie Director
Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959Movie Director
Blackbeard's Ghost 1968Movie Director
The Love Bug 1968Movie Director
Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971Movie Director
Herbie Rides Again 1974Movie Director
That Darn Cat! 1965Movie Director
Jane Eyre 1943Movie Director, Screenplay
The Shaggy D.A. 1976Movie Director
The Absent-Minded Professor 1961Movie Director
The Island at the Top of the World 1974Movie Director
Son of Flubber 1963Movie Director
Tom Brown's School Days 1940Movie Director
The Gnome-Mobile 1967Movie Director
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing 1975Movie Director
The Monkey's Uncle 1965Movie Director
Kidnapped 1960Movie Director, Writer
Forever and a Day 1943Movie Director
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns 1959Movie Director
Dishonored Lady 1947Movie Director
My Dog, the Thief 1969Movie Director
Joan of Paris 1942Movie Director
King Solomon's Mines 1937Movie Director
My Forbidden Past 1951Movie Director
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 1964Movie Director
Johnny Tremain 1957Movie Director
In Search of the Castaways 1962Movie Director
The Man Who Changed His Mind 1936Movie Director
Non-Stop New York 1937Movie Director
The Woman on Pier 13 1950Movie Director
The Miracle on 34th Street 1955Movie Director
The Case of the Frightened Lady 1940Movie Screenplay