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
Jerome Travers amateur, he later became a teaching professional and gave exhibitions. Travers died on March 29, 1951 in East Hartford, Connecticut. He is remembered as one of the finest amateur golfers of all time. He won the U.S. Amateur four times and the U.S. Open in 1915. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1976. "Note: Travers played in only the U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, and The Amateur Championship."<br> NT = No tournament<br> DNP = Did not play<br> "T" indicates a tie for a place<br> R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player