Will Travers Will Travers Will Travers is an English director and animal rights activist from Surrey, chief executive of the Born Free Foundation and president of Born Free USA and Species Survival Network. Son of English actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. Will Travers travelled with his parents to Kenya in 1963, when he was five years old, where his parents Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna were starring together in the 1966 true-life film, "Born Free" (1966), portraying conservationists Joy Adamson and George Adamson, who rescued a lioness cub called Elsa and successfully returned her to the wild. The experience led them
Bill Travers (1950). Travers had a slightly bigger part in "The Browning Version" (1951) and a good role on TV in "Albert" (later filmed as "Albert R.N.") for "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (1951). Travers could be seen in "Hindle Wakes" (1952), "The Planter's Wife" (1952), "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (1952), "It Started in Paradise" (1952), "Mantrap" (1953), "Street of Shadows" (1953), and "The Square Ring" (1953). He was in "The Heel" for "Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents". Travers remained a supporting player in "Counterspy" (1953) and had a good part in "Romeo and Juliet" (1954) as Benvolio. His best