Robert Stevenson

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 lis…

Directed

1. Mary Poppins (1964) — Director
2. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) — Director
3. The Love Bug (1968) — Director
4. Herbie Rides Again (1974) — Director
5. Old Yeller (1957) — Director
6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Director
7. Zorro (1957) — Director
8. The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) — Director
9. That Darn Cat! (1965) — Director
10. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) — Director
11. Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) — Director
12. Jane Eyre (1943) — Director
13. Gunsmoke (1955) — Director
14. The Island at the Top of the World (1974) — Director
15. The Shaggy D.A. (1976) — Director
16. In Search of the Castaways (1962) — Director
17. Son of Flubber (1963) — Director
18. The Gnome-Mobile (1967) — Director
19. One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) — Director
20. The Las Vegas Story (1952) — Director
21. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) — Director
22. Johnny Tremain (1957) — Director
23. Kidnapped (1960) — Director
24. King Solomon's Mines (1937) — Director
25. Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) — Director
26. The Woman on Pier 13 (1950) — Director
27. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) — Director
28. The Monkey's Uncle (1965) — Director
29. Dishonored Lady (1947) — Director
30. My Forbidden Past (1951) — Director
31. To the Ends of the Earth (1948) — Director
32. My Dog, the Thief (1969) — Director
33. The Miracle on 34th Street (1955) — Director
34. Joan of Paris (1942) — Director
35. Back Street (1941) — Director
36. Forever and a Day (1943) — Director
37. Tom Brown's School Days (1940) — Director
38. Non-Stop New York (1937) — Director
39. The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955) — Director
40. Owd Bob (1938) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Four Star Playhouse (1952) — Co-Pilot
2. 'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic (2002) — Self (archive footage)