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Robert Stevenson
Director 1905 - 1986

Robert Stevenson

Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

25 titles
The Shaggy D.A.

The Shaggy D.A.

Robert Stevenson 1976 1h 31m 5.0

Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Robert Stevenson 1975 1h 34m

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.

The Island at the Top of the World

The Island at the Top of the World

Robert Stevenson 1974 1h 34m 5.0

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Herbie Rides Again

Herbie Rides Again

Robert Stevenson 1974 1h 28m 4.5

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps a old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Robert Stevenson 1971 1h 57m 7.7

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

The Love Bug

The Love Bug

Robert Stevenson 1968 1h 48m 6.4

Herbie is a car - but no ordinary car. The story follows the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own from the showroom to the race track, with various close escapes in between. Three further Herbie movies were to follow.

Blackbeard's Ghost

Blackbeard's Ghost

Robert Stevenson 1968 1h 46m 6.0

Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker (Jones) gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

The Gnome-Mobile

The Gnome-Mobile

Robert Stevenson 1967 1h 25m

An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.

That Darn Cat!

That Darn Cat!

Robert Stevenson 1965 1h 56m 6.0

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wrist watch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

Robert Stevenson 1964 2h 19m 7.9

Mary Poppins is the Disney musical film version of the Australian children’s book. One of the classic Disney films and the first film to combine live action with animation in a story about the magical nanny named Mary Poppins who comes and goes by flying with her umbrella.

Son of Flubber

Son of Flubber

Robert Stevenson 1963 1h 40m

Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy.

In Search of the Castaways

In Search of the Castaways

Robert Stevenson 1962 1h 38m

In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S, Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor

Robert Stevenson 1961 1h 36m

Hailed as one of Walt Disney's most hilarious comedies, The Absent-Minded Professor contains two essential elements for laughter - Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber!

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Robert Stevenson 1959 1h 31m 6.0
Old Yeller

Old Yeller

Robert Stevenson 1957 1h 24m 7.0

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860's. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.

Johnny Tremain

Johnny Tremain

Robert Stevenson 1957 1h 20m 5.0

Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.

The Las Vegas Story

The Las Vegas Story

Robert Stevenson 1952 1h 28m

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past

Robert Stevenson 1951 1h 10m 3.0

An 1890s New Orleans heiress (Ava Gardner) tries to buy a married doctor's (Robert Mitchum) love with her tainted family fortune.

Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger

Robert Stevenson 1950 1h 22m

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job.

The Woman on Pier 13

The Woman on Pier 13

Robert Stevenson 1950 1h 13m 6.0

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth

Robert Stevenson 1948 1h 49m

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Robert Stevenson 1943 1h 37m 8.7

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Non-Stop New York

Non-Stop New York

Robert Stevenson 1937 1h 9m 5.0

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines

Robert Stevenson 1937 1h 20m 7.0

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind

Robert Stevenson 1936 1h 6m 8.0

Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.

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