Born Free of three cubs. The Adamsons made an agreement not to handle the cubs, in contrast to the way they did with Elsa. The film's credits list lions and lionesses Boy, Girl, Henrietta, Mara, Ugas, and "the Cubs". The film reunited the real life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as a couple first seen together in "The Smallest Show on Earth" in 1957. George Adamson served as chief technical advisor on the film and discusses his involvement in his first autobiography, "Bwana Game" (UK title, 1968), known in the US as "A Lifetime with Lions". According to Ben Mankiewicz, who
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