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The importance of animal rights led to Travers and his wife becoming involved in the "Zoo Check Campaign" in 1984 that evolved to their establishing the Born Free Foundation in 1991. [40] Travers spent his last three years travelling around Europe's slum zoos and a TV documentary that he made exposed the appalling suffering of thousands of animals.
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna [1] (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.
The film stars Virginia McKenna as Joy Adamson and Bill Travers as George Adamson. George Adamson served as Chief Technical Advisor. The Lions Are Free (1967) is the true story of what happened to the lions Boy, Girl, Ugas, Mara, Henrietta and Little Elsa, and other lions which starred in Born Free.
When Travers was 12 years old, the Travers family took care of Christian, a captive-bred lion, originally from Ilfracombe Zoo and who came, via a department store and a furniture shop on Wandsworth Bridge Road London where there is a picture of Christian in the window, to live at the Travers' family home in Surrey, England. Christian was ...
Bill Gates is speaking candidly about his divorce from Melinda French Gates, calling it "the mistake I regret the most.". In an interview with The Times of London published on Saturday, Jan. 25 ...
Bill Belichick has had his ups and downs when it comes to his love life. Belichick first found love with ex-wife Debby Clarke. The pair, who were childhood sweethearts, tied the knot in 1977 right ...
According to Bill Travers: Neither of us [his wife Virginia McKenna] cared very much for Passionate Summer. Cartier was already an important person in television — that was how he got Passionate Summer — but I’m not sure that he translated well to the big screen. He did a lot of rehearsal, and, by this time, I’d begun to shed the idea ...