Robert Stevenson: Facts & Related Content

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Born	March 31, 1905 • Buxton • England
Died	April 30, 1986 (aged 81) • Santa Barbara • California
Notable Works	“Back Street” • “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” • “Blackbeard’s Ghost” • “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” • “Dishonored Lady” • “I Married a Communist” • “In Search of the Castaways” • “Jane Eyre” • “Joan of Paris” • “Johnny Tremain” • “Kidnapped” • “Mary Poppins” • “Old Yeller” • “One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing” • “Son of Flubber” • “That Darn Cat!” • “The Absent-Minded Professor” • “The Gnome-Mobile” • “The Las Vegas Story” • “The Love Bug” • “The Misadventures of Merlin Jones” • “The Shaggy D.A.” • “To the Ends of the Earth” • “Tom Brown’s School Days” • “Walk Softly, Stranger”