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 a leg and dislocated a shoulder. He played the title role in a British TV version of "The Admirable Crichton" (1968), alongside his wife, and had a small part in Peter Hall's adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1968). Travers teamed up with James Hill, the director of "Born Free", to make the documentary, "The Lions Are Free" (1969), which both men directed. Travers and McKenna made another "animal movie", "Ring of Bright Water" (1969) for which he also wrote the script. They followed this with "An Elephant Called Slowly" (1970), which Travers helped write and produce with James Hill,