William Lindon-Travers (January 3, 1922 – March 29, 1994) was a British actor, screenwriter, director and an animal rights activist. January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The logo of the Great Ape Project, which is campaigning for a Declaration on Great Apes. ...

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England he and his sister Linden (1913-2001) both became actors. Newcastle upon Tyne, often shortened to Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, in North East England. ... Northumberland is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in northern England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... Florence Linden Travers (1913 - 2001) eight years older than her brother Bill Travers was born in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham. ...

Bill Travers began his acting career on the stage in 1947 then three years later made his motion picture debut. Travers co-starred with his second wife, Virginia McKenna, in a number of films, most memorably as the conservationist George Adamson in the highly successful 1966 film Born Free. 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. Together they made a number of motion pictures around the subject such as 1969's Ring of Bright Water and An Elephant Called Slowly in 1973 for which he wrote the screenplay and acted. In 1976 he wrote, directed, and produced the film, "Christian the Lion" then that same year acted in "The Lion Who Thought He Was People". For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Virginia McKenna & Elsa (stand-in) Virginia McKenna O.B.E. (born June 7, 1931 in London, UK) is a British stage and screen actress. ... George Adamson (1906- 20 August 1989) George Adamson, the Lion Man of Africa was one of the founding fathers of wildlife conservation. ... Born Free is a book written by Joy Adamson in the 1960s about an orphaned Kenya. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Ring of Bright Water is a 1960 autobiographical book by Gavin Maxwell and a 1969 film, loosely based on the book, starring Virginia McKenna. ...

The importance of animal rights led to Travers and his wife becoming involved in the "Zoo Check Campaign" in 1984 that evolved to their establishing the "Born Free Foundation", in 1991. The Born Free Foundation originated in 1984 as the Zoo Check Campaign in Great Britain by actors Virginia McKenna her husband Bill Travers along with their son Will Travers and four associates. ...

Bill Travers died in Dorking, Surrey, aged 72. Dorking is a market town nestling under the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London, in Surrey, England. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ...

External links

• Bill Travers at The Internet Movie Database
• Screen Online