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Bill Travers. 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.
Bill Travers was born on 3 January 1922 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Ring of Bright Water (1969), Born Free (1966) and Gorgo (1961). He was married to Virginia McKenna and Patricia Raine. He died on 29 March 1994 in Dorking, Surrey, England, UK.
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...
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 · 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.
Bill Travers was born on January 3, 1922 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Ring of Bright Water (1969), Born Free (1966) and Gorgo (1961). He was married to Virginia McKenna and Patricia Raine.
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.
Apr 3, 1994 · COLDHARBOUR, England — Bill Travers, who co-starred in the 1965 movie “Born Free” and was so moved by the experience that he devoted much of his later life to animal conservation, has died.
Born Free: Directed by James Hill, Tom McGowan. With Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye. The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.
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...
