Born Free The film was one of the most popular movies at the box-office in Britain during 1966. Won Nomination The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The book "Born Free" (1960) was followed by two other books, "Living Free" (1961) and "Forever Free" (1963). In 1972, a film sequel entitled "Living Free" was released. While deriving its name from the second book, the film was based on the third book in the series. It starred Susan Hampshire and Nigel Davenport as Joy and George Adamson. A documentary follow-up to "Born Free", entitled "The Lions Are Free", was
Bill Travers who directed. In 1969, he played Captain Hook on a stage production of "Peter Pan". Travers worked as an actor only on "Rum Runners" (1971) with Brigitte Bardot and Lino Ventura. He directed and appeared in a documentary, "The Lion at World's End" (1971) about Christian the lion. He was reunited with James Hill on "The Belstone Fox" (1973) and co-wrote a documentary, "The Wild Dogs of Africa" for "The World About Us" (1973). He later produced "The Baboons of Gombe" (1975) for the same show. He and Hill wrote and produced "The Queen's Garden" (1977) together, and Travers helped