Robert Stevenson

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-03-31 (81 years old)

Deathday

1986-04-30

Place of Birth

Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

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. Th...

Acting

2002

'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic

as Self (archive footage)

1950

Where Danger Lives

as Assistant Clerk (uncredited)

Production

1964

Mary Poppins

as Director

1974

1965

That Darn Cat!

as Director

1957

Old Yeller

as Director

1943

Jane Eyre

as Director

1943

Jane Eyre

as Screenplay

1967

The Gnome-Mobile

as Director

1952

1947

Dishonored Lady

as Director

1950

1968

The Love Bug

as Director

1960

Kidnapped

as Director

1960

Kidnapped

as Writer

1976

The Shaggy D.A.

as Director

1943

1940

Tom Brown's School Days

as Additional Dialogue

1937

1968

1969

1942

Joan of Paris

as Director

1950

1951

1941

Back Street

as Director

1938

Owd Bob

as Director

1940

Return to Yesterday

as Screenplay

1937

1939

1940

1938

The Ware Case

as Director

1957

Johnny Tremain

as Director

1965

1933

Falling for You

as Director

1963

Son of Flubber

as Director

1934

1936

1934

Little Friend

as Associate Producer

1936

Tudor Rose

as Director

1928

Balaclava

as Scenario Writer

1930

Greek Street

as Writer

1933

Falling for You

as Screenplay

1933

The Only Girl

as Assistant Director

1934

The Battle

as Writer

1931

1931

A Night in Montmartre

as Scenario Writer

1932

Lord Babs

as Writer

1932

Love on Wheels

as Screenplay

1932

The Faithful Heart

as Scenario Writer

1931

The Ringer

as Writer

1931

Sunshine Susie

as Scenario Writer

1938

The Ware Case

as Scenario Writer

1952

Macao

as Co-Director

1933

Early to Bed

as Supervising Producer

1933

Early to Bed

as Dialogue

1937

1936

Tudor Rose

as Writer

1957

1932

Happy Ever After

as Director

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