Will Travers Will Travers Will Travers is an English director and animal rights activist from Surrey, chief executive of the Born Free Foundation and president of Born Free USA and Species Survival Network. Son of English actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. Will Travers travelled with his parents to Kenya in 1963, when he was five years old, where his parents Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna were starring together in the 1966 true-life film, "Born Free" (1966), portraying conservationists Joy Adamson and George Adamson, who rescued a lioness cub called Elsa and successfully returned her to the wild. The experience led them
Bill Travers "Barretts" and "Seventh Sign" were notable flops - and enthusiasm for Travers in Hollywood cooled. Travers did "A Cook for Mr. General" for "Kraft Theatre" (1958) on TV. Then he returned to Britain. Travers and McKenna starred in a melodrama for the Rank Organisation, "Passionate Summer" (1958). He tried to get up a war film set in Greenland, "The Sledge Patrol", but it does not appear to have been made. He and Launder tried to repeat the success of "Geordie" with "The Bridal Path" (1960), but the film was not a success. Travers did "Born a Giant" for "Our American