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
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