Robert Stevens(1920-1989)
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Of all the very talented and capable directors to work on the two
Alfred Hitchcock television
series, Robert Stevens was the only one ever honored with the Emmy
Award. His skill behind the camera, also honored by a DGA nomination in
1957, was one of the major influences on the half-hour Hitchcock show.
His work with Hitchcock, and his previous work directing and producing
an early television classic,
Suspense (1949) (adapted from the
long-running radio series), were just two of the high-water marks in a
memorable career as a film and television director. A friend of
then-CBS executive
William Dozier, Stevens directed
two of the earliest
The Twilight Zone (1959)
episodes:
Where Is Everybody? (1959)
(the pilot which sold the series) and the fondly remembered
Walking Distance (1959).
Stevens worked far less after 1970 than he had before, and was referred to as a "television writer" by The Associated Press upon his death of cardiac arrest in 1989, after he had been beaten and robbed at a rented home in Westport, Connecticut.
Stevens worked far less after 1970 than he had before, and was referred to as a "television writer" by The Associated Press upon his death of cardiac arrest in 1989, after he had been beaten and robbed at a rented home in Westport, Connecticut.
