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William Inglis Lindon Travers [1] MBE (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was a British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist. Before his show business career, he served in the British Army with Gurkha and special forces units. Early life.
Bill Travers. Actor: Ring of Bright Water. He made his film debut in The Conspirator in 1949 and went on to starring roles in such as Geordie and The Bridal Path, He's probably better known though for the animal films which he made with his actress wife Virginia McKenna such as Born Free, An Elephant Called Slowly and Ring of Bright Water, His ...
Apr 1, 1994 · Bill Travers, who played the tallest, strongest man in the Scottish Highlands in the 1956 film "Wee Geordie" and became a star in the 1966 movie "Born Free," died on Tuesday at...
Bill Travers. Actor: Ring of Bright Water. He made his film debut in The Conspirator in 1949 and went on to starring roles in such as Geordie and The Bridal Path, He's probably better known though for the animal films which he made with his actress wife Virginia McKenna such as Born Free, An Elephant Called Slowly and Ring of Bright Water, His ...
Mar 31, 1994 · William Lindon-Travers (Bill Travers), actor, conservationist: born Newcastle upon Tyne 3 January 1922; married secondly 1957 Virginia McKenna (three sons, two daughters); died Dorking, Surrey...
Nov 15, 2021 · McKenna is at home in the cottage in the Surrey hills that she bought many years ago with her husband Bill Travers – who died suddenly in 1994. Travers famously played Joy’s husband, the game...
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
Mar 29, 2024 · Today, we especially think of our Co-Founder Bill Travers MBE, who died 30 years ago this day. In a very special blog, our Executive President Will Travers OBE considers his father’s extraordinary, world-changing legacy.
Mar 29, 2019 · REMEMBERING BILL TRAVERS MBE. Today we fondly remember our Co-Founder Bill Travers MBE, who passed away on 29th March 1994. In this very special blog, our Co-Founder Virginia McKenna OBE reflects on his life. On March 29th it will be 25 years since my husband, Bill, died. A quarter of a century. However you say it, it is a very long time.
Mar 29, 1994 · Bill Travers. Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Lindon-Travers (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was an English actor, screenwriter, director and an animal rights activist, known professionally as Bill Travers.
