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Robert Stevenson (March 31, 1905–November 4, 1986) was an English film writer and director. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, 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 an Oscar nomination as Best Director.

Partial filmography

Tudor Rose (1936)

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

Jane Eyre (1944)

I Married a Communist (1949)

Old Yeller (1957)

Johnny Tremain (1957)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

Son of Flubber (1963)

Mary Poppins (1964)

That Darn Cat! (1965)

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

The Love Bug (1969)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Herbie Rides Again (1974)

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)

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