Born Free Born Free Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book "Born Free". The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. "Born Free", and its musical
Linden Travers tribute to the man who had directed her sixty years earlier. She died in Cornwall, aged 88, in 2001. Her daughter Susan Travers also became an actress. Linden Travers Florence Lindon-Travers, known professionally as Linden Travers (27 May 1913 – 23 October 2001), was a British actress. Travers was born in Sunderland, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley) and William Halton Lindon-Travers. The elder sister of Bill Travers, she attended La Sagesse, a Roman Catholic girls school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She made her first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933. She made her West End debut the following year