Robert Stevenson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Robert Stevenson was born on March 31, 1905 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England as Robert Edward Stevenson. He was a director and writer, known for Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and The Love Bug (1968). He was married to Ursula Henderson, Frances Holyoke Howard, Anna Lee and Cecilie L Leslie. He died on April 30, 1986 in Santa ...
Thomas Stevenson, Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson
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Nominations
Academy Award for Best Director, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
Movies
Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug, Old Yeller, Jane Eyre, The Absent-Minded Professor, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, That Darn Cat!, Herbie Rides Again, The Gnome-Mobile, In Search of the Castaways, Blackbeard's Ghost, Son of Flubber, The Shaggy D.A., The Island at the Top o...
He directed Kidnapped (1960), an adaptation of the 1886 novel by his namesake Robert Louis Stevenson. However, they were not related.
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Stevenson studied engineering at Cambridge University and entered films as a title writer for Paramount-British Newsreel. From 1930 he worked under Michael Balcon as screenwriter at Gainsborough. He subsequently graduated to directing Jack Hulbert comedies, then joined Balcon's move to Ealing in 1938. However, he left shortly afterward for Hollywood on account of his pacifist beliefs, thus avoiding conscription. Under contract at RKO between 1942 and 1943, and from 1949 to 1952, his biggest success was Jane Eyre (1943), starring Orson Welles. He spent most of the war years producing documentary films for Frank Capra. Several commercial failures in the late 1940s forced him to work in television until he was signed by Disney in 1956. There, he happily remained for the next 22 years, turning out youth- and family-oriented pictures.
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Is the only director to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for directing a Disney movie.
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Studied at St John's College, University of Cambridge, England and was elected as President of the renowned Cambridge Union Society for the Easter Term, 1928.
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 1057-1063. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
