Robert Stevenson (director)

Infobox Person
name = Robert Stevenson


birth_date =birth date |1905|3|31
birth_place = Buxton, Derbyshire, England
death_date =death date and age|1986|4|30|1905|3|31
death_place = Santa Barbara, California
spouse = Anna Lee (1934-1944) Frances Howard (divorced)
children = Venetia Stevenson, Caroline Stevenson

Robert Stevenson (March 31 1905 – April 30 1986) was an English film writer and director. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, 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. [John Wakeman, "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, (1987), pp1057-1063.]

Stevenson married Anna Lee in 1934. They moved to the Hollywood in 1939, where he remained for many years. They had two daughters, Venetia and Caroline, before divorcing in March, 1944.

He married Frances Howard sometime after the death of her first husband Samuel Goldwyn and they later divorced.

Partial filmography

*"Tudor Rose" (1936)
*"King Solomon's Mines" (1937)
*"Young Man's Fancy" (1940)
*"Joan of Paris" (1942)
*"Jane Eyre" (1944)
*"Dishonored Lady" (1947)
*"To the Ends of the Earth" (1948)
*"I Married a Communist" (1949)
*"My Forbidden Past" (1951)
*"Old Yeller" (1957)
*"Johnny Tremain" (1957)
*"Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959)
*"The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961)
*"Son of Flubber" (1963)
*"Mary Poppins" (1964)
*"That Darn Cat!" (1965)
*"Blackbeard's Ghost" (1968)
*"The Love Bug" (1969)
*"Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971)
*"Herbie Rides Again" (1974)
*"One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" (1975)
*"The Shaggy D.A." (1976)

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