Robert Stevenson (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Robert Stevenson

Looking for reviews of films directed by Robert Stevenson? Cinafilm has a total of 2,504 reviews across 24 movies directed by Robert Stevenson.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 60%.

Mary Poppins is Robert Stevenson's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 732 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Robert Stevenson is Dishonored Lady, with a score of 47% based on 9 reviews.

Director Biography

Robert Stevenson (31 March 1905, Buxton, Derbyshire – 30 April 1986) what is 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.

Robert Stevenson has directed films starring Will Wright, Elsa Lanchester, Dean Jones and Tommy Kirk.

Robert Stevenson has collaborated with these film directors: Cedric Hardwicke, René Clair, Edmund Goulding and Victor Saville.