Stevenson, Robert: Hollywood director was Buxton lad

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IT’S a far cry from the regency spa town of Buxton to the brash, bright lights of Hollywood – but one local boy made this huge step across the Atlantic in a career that saw him become one of the world’s greatest movie directors.

Indeed, a poll in the movie magazine Variety, in 1977, named Robert Stevenson as “the most commercially successful director in the history of films”.

During a long career at the Walt Disney Studios, he was responsible for such blockbusters as Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Love Bug.

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