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
Benjamin Travers Grosvenor Square, on 6 March 1858, and was buried at Hendon, Middlesex. Benjamin Travers Benjamin Travers, FRS (3 April 1783 – 6 March 1858) was a British surgeon. From 1857 to his death, he was the Serjeant Surgeon, a member of the Medical Household (part of the Royal Household). Benjamin Travers was born on 3 April 1783 at Cheapside, London, the second of the ten children of Benjamin Travers, a London sugar broker, and his wife Mary Spilsbury. After Cheshunt Grammar School, he was educated privately before joining his father's counting house in 1799. In August, 1800 Travers was articled