Robert Stevenson
Born: 1905-03-31 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Died: 1986-04-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
Filmography
2002
- 'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic as Self (archive footage)
1976
- The Shaggy D.A. ... (Director)
1975
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing ... (Director)
1974
- The Island at the Top of the World ... (Director)
- Herbie Rides Again ... (Director)
1971
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks ... (Director)
1969
- My Dog, the Thief ... (Director)
1968
- Blackbeard's Ghost ... (Director)
- The Love Bug ... (Director)
1967
- The Gnome-Mobile ... (Director)
1965
- That Darn Cat! ... (Director)
- The Monkey's Uncle ... (Director)
1964
- Mary Poppins ... (Director)
- The Misadventures of Merlin Jones ... (Director)
1963
- Son of Flubber ... (Director)
1962
- In Search of the Castaways ... (Director)
1961
- The Absent-Minded Professor ... (Director)
- The Wonderful World of Disney ... (Director)
1960
- Kidnapped ... (Director)
1959
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People ... (Director)
- I Captured the King of the Leprechauns ... (Director)
1957
- Zorro ... (Director)
- Johnny Tremain ... (Director)
- The Best Doggoned Dog in the World ... (Director)
- Old Yeller ... (Director)
- The Liberty Story ... (Director)
1955
- Gunsmoke ... (Director)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... (Director)
- The 20th Century Fox Hour ... (Director)
- The Miracle on 34th Street ... (Director)
- The Star and the Story ... (Director)
- Atomic Energy as a Force for Good ... (Director)
1953
- General Electric Theater ... (Director)
- Heart of Gold ... (Director)
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Co-Pilot
- Cavalcade of America ... (Director)
- Macao ... (Co-Director)
- The Las Vegas Story ... (Director)
1951
- My Forbidden Past ... (Director)
1950
- Walk Softly, Stranger ... (Director)
- The Woman on Pier 13 ... (Director)
1948
- To the Ends of the Earth ... (Director)
1947
- Dishonored Lady ... (Director)
1944
- Know Your Ally: Britain ... (Director)
1943
- Jane Eyre ... (Director)
- Forever and a Day ... (Director)
1942
- Joan of Paris ... (Director)
1941
- Back Street ... (Director)
1940
- Return to Yesterday ... (Screenplay)
- Tom Brown's School Days ... (Additional Dialogue)
- The Case of the Frightened Lady ... (Screenplay)
1939
- Young Man's Fancy ... (Director)
1938
- The Ware Case ... (Director)
- Owd Bob ... (Director)
1937
- Non-Stop New York ... (Director)
- Paradise for Two ... (Writer)
- King Solomon's Mines ... (Director)
1936
- Tudor Rose ... (Director)
- The Man Who Changed His Mind ... (Director)
- Jack of All Trades ... (Director)
1934
- The Battle ... (Writer)
- Little Friend ... (Associate Producer)
- The Camels Are Coming ... (Director)
1933
- The Only Girl ... (Assistant Director)
- Falling for You ... (Director)
- Early to Bed ... (Supervising Producer)
1932
- Lord Babs ... (Writer)
- Happy Ever After ... (Director)
- The Faithful Heart ... (Scenario Writer)
- Love on Wheels ... (Screenplay)
1931
- The Ringer ... (Writer)
- A Night in Montmartre ... (Scenario Writer)
- Michael and Mary ... (Writer)
- Sunshine Susie ... (Scenario Writer)
1930
- Greek Street ... (Writer)
1928
- Balaclava ... (Scenario Writer)