Robert Stevenson

Robert Stevenson

1905-03-31 Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK 67 Credits

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...

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'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic

'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic

2002

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Short documentary on the making of the Disney classic.

The Shaggy D.A.

The Shaggy D.A.

1976

Director

5.8
Directing

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

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

1975

Director

5.7
Directing

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

The Island at the Top of the World

1974

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Herbie Rides Again

1974

Director

6.1
Directing

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

Director

7.0
Directing

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

My Dog, the Thief

1969

Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Love Bug

1968

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968

Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Gnome-Mobile

1967

Director

6.2
Directing

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!

That Darn Cat!

1965

Director

6.6
Directing

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

The Monkey's Uncle

1965

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Mary Poppins

1964

Director

7.6
Directing

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

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

1964

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Son of Flubber

1963

Director

5.9
Directing

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

In Search of the Castaways

1962

Director

6.4
Directing

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

The Absent-Minded Professor

1961

Director

6.5
Directing

Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

1960

Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

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

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

1959

Director

6.7
Directing

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

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

1959

Director

9.0
Directing

Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Old Yeller

Old Yeller

1957

Director

6.9
Directing

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

The Best Doggoned Dog in the World

1957

Director

7.0
Directing

"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

Johnny Tremain

1957

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Liberty Story

1957

Director

9.0
Directing

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

The Miracle on 34th Street

1955

Director

5.2
Directing

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

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good

1955

Director

Directing

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

Macao

1952

Co-Director

6.2
Directing

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

The Las Vegas Story

1952

Director

5.8
Directing

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

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past

1951

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Where Danger Lives

Where Danger Lives

1950

as Assistant Clerk (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

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

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950

Director

5.0
Directing

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

The Woman on Pier 13

The Woman on Pier 13

1950

Director

5.3
Directing

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth

1948

Director

5.7
Directing

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

Dishonored Lady

Dishonored Lady

1947

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Know Your Ally: Britain

Know Your Ally: Britain

1944

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Jane Eyre

1943

Director, Screenplay

6.9
Directing Writing

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

Forever and a Day

1943

Director

7.4
Directing

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

Joan of Paris

1942

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Back Street

1941

Director

7.2
Directing

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

The Case of the Frightened Lady

1940

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days

1940

Additional Dialogue, Director

7.2
Directing

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

Return to Yesterday

1940

Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Young Man's Fancy

Young Man's Fancy

1939

Director

5.8
Directing

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

The Ware Case

The Ware Case

1938

Director, Scenario Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

Owd Bob

Owd Bob

1938

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Paradise for Two

1937

Writer

5.0
Writing

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

Non-Stop New York

Non-Stop New York

1937

Director

6.3
Directing

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

King Solomon's Mines

1937

Director

5.3
Directing

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

5.5
Directing

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

The Man Who Changed His Mind

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Tudor Rose

1936

Director, Writer

8.1
Directing Writing

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

Little Friend

Little Friend

1934

Associate Producer

3.5
Producing

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

The Camels Are Coming

The Camels Are Coming

1934

Director

Directing

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

The Battle

1934

Writer

7.0
Writing

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

Early to Bed

1933

Supervising Producer, Dialogue

Producing

'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

The Only Girl

1933

Assistant Director

Directing

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

Falling for You

1933

Director, Screenplay

9.0
Directing Writing

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

Directing

Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.

Love on Wheels

Love on Wheels

1932

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

The Faithful Heart

The Faithful Heart

1932

Scenario Writer

5.5
Writing

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

Lord Babs

1932

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Sunshine Susie

1931

Scenario Writer

6.3
Writing

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

Michael and Mary

1931

Writer

Writing

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

A Night in Montmartre

1931

Scenario Writer

5.0
Writing

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

Writing

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

Greek Street

Greek Street

1930

Writer

Writing

A Soho restaurateur's protégé becomes a star.

Balaclava

Balaclava

1928

Scenario Writer

Writing

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...