罗伯特·斯蒂文森 Robert Stevenson
- 性别: 男
- 出生日期: 1905年03月31日
- 去世日期: 1986年04月30日
- 出生地: 英国,德比郡,巴克斯顿
- 更多中文名: 罗伯特·史蒂文森
- 更多外文名: Robert Edward Stevenson (本名)
- 家庭成员: Anna Lee(前妻) / Ursula Henderson(妻)
- IMDb编号: nm0829038
- 职业: 导演 / 编剧 / 演员
人物简介 · · · · · ·
Robert Stevenson 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.