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 "Barretts" and "Seventh Sign" were notable flops - and enthusiasm for Travers in Hollywood cooled. Travers did "A Cook for Mr. General" for "Kraft Theatre" (1958) on TV. Then he returned to Britain. Travers and McKenna starred in a melodrama for the Rank Organisation, "Passionate Summer" (1958). He tried to get up a war film set in Greenland, "The Sledge Patrol", but it does not appear to have been made. He and Launder tried to repeat the success of "Geordie" with "The Bridal Path" (1960), but the film was not a success. Travers did "Born a Giant" for "Our American