Born Free seen through the eyes of his assistant, Tony Fitzjohn. George is portrayed by Richard Harris, and Honor Blackman makes a brief appearance as Joy. The one-hour "Nature" documentary "Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story" was released on PBS stations in January 2011. It includes a collection of archival footage and an exploration into the lives of Joy and George Adamson during the years following release of the film. Born Free Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion
Susan Travers Susan Travers Susan Mary Gillian Travers (23 September 1909 – 18 December 2003) was a Englishwoman who served in the French Red Cross as a nurse and ambulance driver during Second World War. She later became the only British military woman to be matriculated in the French Foreign Legion, having also served in Vietnam, during the First Indochina War. Travers was born in London and spent her early years in England, the daughter of Francis Eaton Travers a Royal Navy Admiral and his wife Eleanor Catherine (née Turnbull). At the outbreak of the Second World War, Travers joined the French