Directing
Robert Stevenson
EN cinema · 68 credits
Born
31 March 1905
Died
30 April 1986 (aged 81)
Birthplace
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Also known as Robert Edward Stevenson
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
Known for
Filmography
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic
as Self (archive footage)
The Shaggy D.A.
Director
Herbie Rides Again
Director
My Dog, the Thief
Director
The Love Bug
Director
Blackbeard's Ghost
Director
The Gnome-Mobile
Director
That Darn Cat!
Director
The Monkey's Uncle
Director
Mary Poppins
Director
Son of Flubber
Director
Kidnapped
Director, Writer
Old Yeller
Director
Johnny Tremain
Director
The Liberty Story
Director
The Las Vegas Story
Director
Macao
Co-Director
My Forbidden Past
Director
The Woman on Pier 13
Director
Dishonored Lady
Director
Jane Eyre
Director, Screenplay
Forever and a Day
Director
Joan of Paris
Director
Back Street
Director
Tom Brown's School Days
Additional Dialogue, Director
Return to Yesterday
Screenplay, Director
Young Man's Fancy
Director
Owd Bob
Director
The Ware Case
Director, Scenario Writer
King Solomon's Mines
Director
Non-Stop New York
Director
Tudor Rose
Director, Writer
Little Friend
Associate Producer
The Battle
Writer
Falling for You
Director, Screenplay
The Only Girl
Assistant Director
Early to Bed
1933
Early to Bed
Supervising Producer, Dialogue
Lord Babs
Writer
Love on Wheels
Screenplay
The Faithful Heart
Scenario Writer
A Night in Montmartre
Scenario Writer
Sunshine Susie
Scenario Writer
Greek Street
Writer
Balaclava
Scenario Writer