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 Ac...
Known For
Complete Filmography

'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Short documentary on the making of the Disney classic.

The Shaggy D.A.
1976
Director
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to...

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
Director
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese...

The Island at the Top of the World
1974
Director
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere i...

Herbie Rides Again
1974
Director
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
Director
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when th...

My Dog, the Thief
1969
Director
As ratings for Jack Crandall's lifeless airborne traffic reports plummet, a super-size St. Bernard on the lam stows away in his chopper. Crandall's ne...

The Love Bug
1968
Director
Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky riv...

Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
Director
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their gr...

The Gnome-Mobile
1967
Director
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While...

That Darn Cat!
1965
Director
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than s...

The Monkey's Uncle
1965
Director
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ul...

Mary Poppins
1964
Director
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
1964
Director
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments lan...

Son of Flubber
1963
Director
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hope...

In Search of the Castaways
1962
Director
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the childr...

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
Director
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...

Kidnapped
1960
Director, Writer
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, ...

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
Director
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him ...

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
1959
Director
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Old Yeller
1957
Director
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 18...

The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
1957
Director
"The Best Doggoned Dog in the World" is an episode of Disneyland which aired on November 20, 1957. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and Larry Lansb...

Johnny Tremain
1957
Director
When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the So...

The Liberty Story
1957
Director
Walt Disney presents a combination live-action and animated drama of America's historical fight for freedom. Includes a segment from Johnny Tremain, d...

The Miracle on 34th Street
1955
Director
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this i...

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
1955
Director
Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the ...

Macao
1952
Co-Director
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he misle...

The Las Vegas Story
1952
Director
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

My Forbidden Past
1951
Director
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

Where Danger Lives
1950
as Assistant Clerk (uncredited)
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to ...

Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Director
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

The Woman on Pier 13
1950
Director
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

To the Ends of the Earth
1948
Director
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

Dishonored Lady
1947
Director
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depres...

Know Your Ally: Britain
1944
Director
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Departmen...

Jane Eyre
1943
Director, Screenplay
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Forever and a Day
1943
Director
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Joan of Paris
1942
Director
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hid...

Back Street
1941
Director
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion desi...

The Case of the Frightened Lady
1940
Screenplay
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

Tom Brown's School Days
1940
Additional Dialogue, Director
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a polic...

Return to Yesterday
1940
Screenplay, Director
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Young Man's Fancy
1939
Director
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

The Ware Case
1938
Director, Scenario Writer
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

Owd Bob
1938
Director
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that a...

Paradise for Two
1937
Writer
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

Non-Stop New York
1937
Director
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

King Solomon's Mines
1937
Director
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Jack of All Trades
1936
Director
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a ba...

The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936
Director
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo...

Tudor Rose
1936
Director, Writer
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Little Friend
1934
Associate Producer
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

The Camels Are Coming
1934
Director
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help br...

The Battle
1934
Writer
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles B...

Early to Bed
1933
Supervising Producer, Dialogue
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rent...

The Only Girl
1933
Assistant Director
English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.' (B...

Falling for You
1933
Director, Screenplay
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists fa...
Happy Ever After
1932
Director
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.

Love on Wheels
1932
Screenplay
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

The Faithful Heart
1932
Scenario Writer
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years ea...

Lord Babs
1932
Writer
A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

Sunshine Susie
1931
Scenario Writer
Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who sta...

Michael and Mary
1931
Writer
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

A Night in Montmartre
1931
Scenario Writer
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. How...
The Ringer
1931
Writer
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

Greek Street
1930
Writer
A Soho restaurateur's protégé becomes a star.

Balaclava
1928
Scenario Writer
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which resul...