Robert Stevenson

Robert Stevenson (31 mars 1905, Buxton, Derbyshire – 30 Avril 1986) ce qui English film writer and director. He was educated at Université de Cambridge, 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 film for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, Stevenson is best remembered directing for the Julie Andrews comédie musicale 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 actrice, Anna Lee en 1934. They lived on de Londres, Bankside for five years, moving to Hollywood en 1939, where he remained for many years. They had two daughters, Venetia et Caroline, before divorcing à mars 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 en 2007.