Born Free 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 cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book "Born Free". The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. "Born Free", and its musical
Bill Travers (1950). Travers had a slightly bigger part in "The Browning Version" (1951) and a good role on TV in "Albert" (later filmed as "Albert R.N.") for "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (1951). Travers could be seen in "Hindle Wakes" (1952), "The Planter's Wife" (1952), "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (1952), "It Started in Paradise" (1952), "Mantrap" (1953), "Street of Shadows" (1953), and "The Square Ring" (1953). He was in "The Heel" for "Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents". Travers remained a supporting player in "Counterspy" (1953) and had a good part in "Romeo and Juliet" (1954) as Benvolio. His best