Robert Stevenson

Robert Stevenson

Director (1905 - 1986)
5
Movies
82.4%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

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The ThumbScore for Robert Stevenson (82.4%) is the average audience approval rating across 5 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Robert's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

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 Actress and Stevenson received a nomination for Best Director Oscar. Stevenson divorced his first wife Cecilie and married actress Anna Lee in 1934.

They lived on London's Bankside for five years, moving to Hollywood in 1939, where he remained for many years. They had two daughters, Venetia and Caroline, before divorcing in March 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 in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Stevenson (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Born 1905-03-31 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK. Died 1986-04-30.

On ThumbScore, Robert Stevenson appears in 5 films with an average audience score of 82.4%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Filmography & Ratings

Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
1964
πŸ‘ 87%
The Love Bug
The Love Bug
1968
πŸ‘ 87%
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
πŸ‘ 84%
That Darn Cat!
That Darn Cat!
1965
πŸ‘ 82%
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
πŸ‘ 72%
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