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 Londons 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 Stevensons 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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