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 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