| Robert Stevenson | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 31, 1905 Buxton, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | April 30, 1986 (aged 81) Santa Barbara, California, U.S |
| Spouse(s) | Cecilie (?–1934) (divorced) Anna Lee (1934–1944) (divorced) Frances Howard (divorced) Ursula Henderson (?–1986) (his death) |
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.[1]
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 Howard sometime after the death of her first husband Samuel Goldwyn and they later divorced. Stevenson's widow, Ursula Henderson, appeared as herself in the documentary Locked in the Tower: The Men behind Jane Eyre in 2007.
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)
- Kidnapped (1960)
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
- In Search of the Castaways (1962)
- Son of Flubber (1963)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
- That Darn Cat! (1965)
- Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
- The Love Bug (1969)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
- Herbie Rides Again (1974)
- The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
- The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
References
- ^ John Wakeman, World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, (1987), pp1057-1063.
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