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Robert Stevenson
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Director, Screenwriter Born: March 31, 1905 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England Death: November 4, 1986 in Santa Barbara, CA Biography:One of England's best and most successful action directors of the '30s, "Robert Stevenson" became a filmmaker whose work was seen by tens of millions of filmgoers well into the late '60s His name was seldom noticed, however, as the director of such Walt Disney hits as "Mary Poppins," "Son of Flubber," "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," "Old Yeller," "The Absent-Minded Professor," and The Love Bug. The son of a businessman, Stevenson was a science student at Cambridge, and was led to film through his graduate work in psychology. He began directing movies in 1932, and soon proved himself equally adept in all genres and subject material, capable of deriving bracing tension and excitement from material as diverse as historical drama, African adventure epics, and contemporary thrillers -- among his most notable movies in those categories, respectively, are "Tudor Rose," "King Solomon's Mines" (the 1937 version... Full Biography
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