Bill Travers he played the title role in "Abraham Cochrane" which had a short run. Travers' most famous film role came when he played the conservationist George Adamson in the highly successful 1966 film "Born Free", about which experience the two co-wrote the book "On Playing with Lions". He co-starred with McKenna and the experience made him and his wife very conscious of the many abuses of wild animals in captivity that had been taken from Africa and other natural environments around the world. Travers received an offer to play a support role in "Duel at Diablo" (1967); during filming he broke
Bill Travers (baseball) manager George Bamberger in May , and went 12-11 with a 4.41 ERA in 28 starts. Travers returned to ace form in , going 14-8 with a 3.89 ERA to help the Brewers to a second-place finish in the American League East for the first time in franchise history. He repeated this success in , going 12-6 with a 3.91 ERA. Travers signed a four-year free agent contract with the California Angels on January 26, . He faced just one batter in his fourth start with his new club, walking Yankees second baseman Willie Randolph on four pitches before he