Robert Stevenson
Robert Edward Stevenson
About the person
Career:
Directing
Date of birth:1905-03-31
Place of birth:Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Gender:Male
Popularity:1
Date of death1986-04-30
81Biography
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.