Robert Stevenson
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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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Mary Poppins (1964)
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The Love Bug (1968)
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
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Herbie Rides Again (1974)
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Old Yeller (1957)
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Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
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The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
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The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
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Jane Eyre (1943)
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That Darn Cat! (1965)
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The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
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My Dog, the Thief (1969)
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The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
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Son of Flubber (1963)
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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
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Forever and a Day (1943)
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Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
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The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns (1959)
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The Las Vegas Story (1952)
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King Solomon's Mines (1937)
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Kidnapped (1960)
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
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Back Street (1941)
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Johnny Tremain (1957)
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My Forbidden Past (1951)
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Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
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Owd Bob (1938)
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The Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
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Non-Stop New York (1937)
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
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Dishonored Lady (1947)
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The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
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To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)
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Return to Yesterday (1940)
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Joan of Paris (1942)
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Young Man's Fancy (1939)
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Tudor Rose (1936)
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The Best Doggoned Dog in the World (1957)
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Know Your Ally: Britain (1944)
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Atomic Energy as a Force for Good (1955)
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Jack of All Trades (1936)
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The Camels Are Coming (1934)
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The Ware Case (1938)
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The Liberty Story (1957)
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Heart of Gold (1953)
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Falling for You (1933)
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Happy Ever After (1932)
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