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Robert Stevenson

Robert Stevenson
  • Name: Robert Stevenson
  • Birthday: 1905-03-31
  • Also known as: Robert Edward Stevenson
  • Place of birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
  • Popularity: 4.596
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,... Read More

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Title Release date
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic   as  Self (archive footage) 2002-01-01
Where Danger Lives   as  Assistant Clerk (uncredited) 1950-11-16