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
Travers Buxton Travers Buxton Travers Buxton (1865–1945) was an English anti-slavery activist. Travers was a member of the Buxton family which had been involved in abolitionism in the United Kingdom for several generations. Thomas Fowell Buxton had been a founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. His grandson, also called Thomas Fowell Buxton was president of the society in 1901. Travers became secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (ASS) in 1898. He was the Society's representative to the campaign against Leopold II's Congo Free State. In 1909 when the ASS merged with the Aborigines Protection Society he became secretary