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Robert Stevenson
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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…
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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
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2002
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
The Shaggy D.A.
Movie Director
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1975
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Movie Director
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1974
The Island at the Top of the World
Movie Director
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1974
Herbie Rides Again
Movie Director
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1971
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie Director
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1969
My Dog, the Thief
Movie Director
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1968
The Love Bug
Movie Director
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1968
Blackbeard's Ghost
Movie Director
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1967
The Gnome-Mobile
Movie Director
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1965
That Darn Cat!
Movie Director
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1965
The Monkey's Uncle
Movie Director
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1964
Mary Poppins
Movie Director
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1964
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Movie Director
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1963
Son of Flubber
Movie Director
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1962
In Search of the Castaways
Movie Director
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1961
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV show Director
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1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
Movie Director
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1960
Kidnapped
Movie Director
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1959
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Movie Director
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1959
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Movie Director
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1957
Old Yeller
Movie Director
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1957
The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
Movie Director
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1957
Zorro
TV show Director
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1957
Johnny Tremain
Movie Director
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1957
The Liberty Story
Movie Director
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1956
On Trial
TV show Director
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1955
The Miracle on 34th Street
Movie Director
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1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV show Director
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Director
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Director
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1955
The Star and the Story
TV show Director
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1955
Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
Movie Director
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1953
Heart of Gold
Movie Director
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Director
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1952
Cavalcade of America
TV show Director
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1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show Co-Pilot
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1952
Macao
Movie Co-Director
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1952
The Las Vegas Story
Movie Director
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1951
My Forbidden Past
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