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
Linden Travers 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 in Ivor Novello's "Murder in Mayfair", and appeared in her first film, "Children of the Fog" in 1935. She played a substantial role in Carol Reed’s "Bank