{{Short description|British actor and activist (1922–1994)}} {{other people||William Travers (disambiguation)}} {{EngvarB|date=April 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{refimprove|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox person | image = Bill Travers 1966.jpg | image_size = | caption = Bill Travers in 1966 | name = Bill Travers | honorific_suffix = MBE | birth_name = William Inglis Lindon Travers | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|01|03|df=y}} | birth_place = Newcastle Upon Tyne, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|03|29|1922|01|03|df=y}} | death_place = South Holmwood, Surrey, England | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|screenwriter|director|animal rights activist|soldier}} | years_active = 1949–1992 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Pat Rains|1950|1957|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Virginia McKenna<br />|1957}} }} | children = 5 | relatives = {{plainlist| * Linden Travers (sister) * Susan Travers (niece) * Penelope Wilton (niece) * Angela Morant (niece) * Richard Morant (nephew)}} }} '''William Inglis Lindon Travers'''<ref name="ODNB"/> (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== Travers was born at 16 Grosvenor Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England,<ref name="ODNB"/> the son of Florence (née Wheatley) and William Halton Lindon-Travers,<ref name="ODNB"/> a theatre manager.<ref name=NYT/> His sister Linden (1913–2001) and her daughter Susan became actresses.
==Military service== thumb|left|Major Bill Travers MBE Travers enlisted as a private in the British Army at the age of 18, a few months after the outbreak of the Second World War, and was sent to India then under British Raj rule. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the British Indian Army on 9 July 1942.<ref name="Indian_Army_List_47">{{cite book|pages=645–646|title=Indian Army List for October 1945 (Part I)|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72303/page/n351/mode/2up|publisher=Government of India Press|year=1947}}</ref> He was promoted war-substantive lieutenant on 7 January 1943 and to acting major on 20 September 1944.<ref name="Indian_Army_List_47"/> He served in the Long Range Penetration Brigade 4th Battalion 9th Gorkha Rifles in Burma, attached to Orde Wingate's staff, during which he came to know John Masters, his brigade major. (Travers later acted in the film ''Bhowani Junction'', written by Masters.) While deep behind enemy lines, he contracted malaria and volunteered to be left behind in a native Burmese village. To avoid capture, he disguised himself as a Chinese national and walked hundreds of miles through jungle territory until he reached an Allied position. He later joined Force 136 Special Operations Executive and was parachuted into Malaya. He was responsible for training and tactical decisions with the main resistance movement, the communist-led Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). On 20 December 1944, he was promoted war-substantive captain and temporary major.<ref name="Indian_Army_List_47"/>
Travers was one of the first allied operatives to enter the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb. He wrote about his experience in his diary, registering profound horror at the destruction and loss of life. On 7 November 1946, Travers was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) "in recognition of gallant and distinguished service whilst engaged in Special Operations in South East Asia".<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37780 |date=5 November 1946|startpage=5465 |endpage= |supp=y |accessdate=22 January 2019 }}</ref> He left the armed forces in 1947.<ref name=NYT/>
==Acting career== ===Early work=== After leaving the army, Travers decided to become an actor.<ref>{{cite news |author=M. H. |date=15 July 1956 |title=Big Briton |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|113764461}} }} State Library of New South Wales login required</ref> He began working on stage in 1949 appearing in John Van Druten's ''The Damask Cheek'', and a year later made his film debut in ''Conspirator'' (1949).<ref name=bfi/> He had unbilled parts in ''Trio'' (1950) and ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/bill-travers-p114502/filmography|title=Bill Travers | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}</ref> He had a slightly bigger part in ''The Browning Version'' (1951) and a good role on TV in "Albert" (later filmed as ''Albert R.N.'') for ''BBC Sunday-Night Theatre'' (1951).<ref name=bfi/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e3242b94b7664107a5757b432b164e7a|title=Albert|date=12 August 1951|issue=1448|pages=41|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>
===Supporting player=== Travers appeared in ''Hindle Wakes'' (1952), ''The Planter's Wife'' (1952), ''The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men'' (1952), ''It Started in Paradise'' (1952), ''Mantrap'' (1953), ''Street of Shadows'' (1953), and ''The Square Ring'' (1953).<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb3e7aa61|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623234220/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb3e7aa61|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 June 2017|title=Bill Travers|website=BFI}}</ref> He was in "The Heel" for ''Douglas Fairbanks Presents''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8784435e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026015816/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8784435e|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 October 2020|title=The Heel (1953)|website=BFI}}</ref>
He was a supporting player in ''Counterspy'' (1953), and appeared in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1954) as Benvolio,<ref name=bfi/> and in ''Footsteps in the Fog'' (1955) starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/footsteps-in-the-fog-v91927/review|title=Footsteps in the Fog (1955) - Arthur Lubin | Review | AllMovie|via=www.allmovie.com}}</ref>
===''Geordie'' and MGM=== Travers's breakthrough came when he was cast in the title role of ''Geordie'' (1955),<ref name=NYT/> directed by Frank Launder. This was popular in Britain and the US and saw him contracted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which thought he was going to be a big star and brought him to Hollywood.<ref name=independent>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bill-travers-1367198.html|title=Obituary: Bill Travers|date=23 October 2011|website=The Independent}}</ref>
MGM cast him in the expensive epic ''Bhowani Junction'' (1956), with Granger and Ava Gardner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/bhowani-junction-v5305/review|title=Bhowani Junction (1956) - George Cukor | Review | AllMovie|via=www.allmovie.com}}</ref> He followed this as the romantic lead in a remake of ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1957), opposite Jennifer Jones.<ref name=independent/> Powell and Pressburger wanted him to star in the lead of ''Ill Met by Moonlight''<ref>{{cite news |author=E. Schallert |date=16 March 1956 |title=Drama |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |id={{ProQuest|166926619}} }} Library login required</ref> but the role went to Dirk Bogarde. Travers briefly returned to Britain to make a comedy, ''The Smallest Show on Earth'' (1957), with his second wife Virginia McKenna, whom he had married in 1957.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bill travers weds actress. |date=20 September 1957 |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|114348031}} }} Library login required</ref>
Back in Hollywood, he was Eleanor Parker's character's love interest in ''The Seventh Sin'' (1957), a remake of a Greta Garbo film.<ref name=independent/> MGM tested him for the lead in ''Ben-Hur'' (1959)<ref>{{cite news |author=Louella Parsons |title=Jeff Chandler? He's The Busiest, Now |newspaper=The Washington Post and Times-Herald |date=1 November 1955|author-link=Louella Parsons }}</ref> and he wrote a swashbuckler to star himself, ''The Falcon''.<ref>{{cite news |author=E. Schallert |date=31 January 1957 |title=Travers scripts own starring film; 'million dollar answer' slated. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|167022075}} }} Library login required</ref> However his MGM films all performed disappointingly at the box office – ''Barretts'' and ''Seventh Sin'' were notable flops – and enthusiasm for Travers in Hollywood cooled.<ref name=independent/>
Travers returned to the UK in March 1957 to attend to divorce proceedings and marry Virginia McKenna after which he went back to America in October, for "A Cook for Mr. General" for ''Kraft Theatre'' (1958) on TV.
===Return to Britain=== Travers and McKenna starred in a melodrama for the Rank Organisation, ''Passionate Summer'' (1958).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2b0689|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827142540/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2b0689|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 August 2018|title=Passionate Summer (1958)|website=BFI}}</ref> He tried to get up a war film set in Greenland, ''The Sledge Patrol'', but it does not appear to have been made.<ref>{{cite news |author=H. T. |date=12 December 1959 |title=Greenland Scene of New War Film |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|114836623}} }} Library login required</ref> He and Launder tried to repeat the success of ''Geordie'' with ''The Bridal Path'' (1960), but the film was not a success.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/the-bridal-path|title=The Bridal Path|website=Time Out Worldwide|date=10 September 2012 }}</ref>
In the second half of 1959, Travers made a British monster film, ''Gorgo''. In America he recorded "Born a Giant" for ''Our American Heritage'' (1960) on TV, then returned to Britain where Travers and McKenna reteamed on a thriller, ''Two Living, One Dead'' (1961).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/two-living-one-dead-v129684|title=Two Living, One Dead (1961) - Anthony Asquith | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie|via=www.allmovie.com}}</ref> He then starred in a race car drama for MGM, ''The Green Helmet'' (1961), and a comedy with Spike Milligan, ''Invasion Quartet'' (1961).<ref name=bfi/>
He was in a Broadway production of ''A Cook for Mr General'' (1961).<ref>{{cite news |author=S. Z. |date=10 November 1960 |title=TV Comedy Due As Play in March. |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|115122240}} }} Library login required</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=H. T. |date=20 October 1961 |title=Theatre: Comic view of the military. |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|115254377}} }} Library login required</ref> Travers starred in a TV adaptation of ''Lorna Doone'' (1963).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47510109 |title=Did You Know? |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=30 |issue=50 |date=15 May 1963 |access-date=23 November 2017 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105838661 |title=Lorna Doone to be seen on ABC-3 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=38 |issue=10,925 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=15 August 1964 |access-date=23 November 2017 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He returned to Hollywood to do some episodes of ''The Everglades'', ''Rawhide'' ("Incident at Two Graves") and ''Espionage'' ("A Camel to Ride"). Back on Broadway he played the title role in ''Abraham Cochrane'' which had a short run.<ref>{{cite news |author=H. T. |date=18 February 1964 |title=Theater: 'abraham cochrane' opens. |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|115685395}} }} Library login required</ref>
===''Born Free''=== His most famous film role was that of game warden 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 conscious of the many abuses of wild animals in captivity that had been taken from Africa and other natural environments around the world.<ref name=NYT/>
Travers received an offer to play a support role in ''Duel at Diablo'' (1967); during filming he broke a leg and dislocated a shoulder.<ref>{{cite news |author=J. L. Scott |date=7 August 1966 |title=Hollywood Calendar: It Only Hurts When.. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|155487928}} }} Library login required</ref> He played the title role in a British TV version of ''The Admirable Crichton'' (1968), alongside his wife, and had a small part in Peter Hall's adaptation of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1968).<ref name=bfi/>
===Documentaries=== Travers teamed up with James Hill, the director of ''Born Free'', to make the documentary, ''The Lions Are Free'' (1969), which both men directed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48083556 |title=The Lions Are Free |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=37 |issue=16 |date=17 September 1969 |access-date=23 November 2017 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bill travers takes special look at lions |date=19 July 1968 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|156000358}} }} Library login required</ref>
Travers and McKenna made another "animal movie", ''Ring of Bright Water'' (1969) for which he also wrote the script.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=22 August 2025|access-date=22 August 2025|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-studios-the-rank-organisation-1968-1977/|title=Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation 1968-1977}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46445855 |title=Ring of Bright Water |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=37 |issue=29 |date=17 December 1969 |access-date=23 November 2017 |page=32 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> They followed this with ''An Elephant Called Slowly'' (1970), which Travers helped write and produce with James Hill, who directed. In 1969, he played Captain Hook on a stage production of ''Peter Pan''.<ref>{{cite news |author=D. Barker |date=1 April 1994 |title=Life with the lions. |newspaper=The Guardian |id={{ProQuest|187505227}} }} Library login required</ref>
Travers worked as an actor only on ''Rum Runners'' (1971) with Brigitte Bardot and Lino Ventura. He directed and appeared in a documentary, ''The Lion at World's End'' (1971), about Christian the lion, an animal bought in ''Harrods'' and then returned to Africa.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47226977 |title=A Lion in London |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=38 |issue=9 |date=29 July 1970 |access-date=23 November 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55469568 |title=A British Lion Migrates To Africa |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=41 |issue=21 |date=24 October 1973 |access-date=23 November 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He was reunited with James Hill on ''The Belstone Fox'' (1973) and co-wrote a documentary, "The Wild Dogs of Africa", for ''The World About Us'' (1973).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a5af580|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309070113/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a5af580|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2016|title=The Belstone Fox (1973)|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78a6bf9d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220032902/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78a6bf9d|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 December 2019|title=The Wild Dogs of Africa (1973)|website=BFI}}</ref> He later produced "The Baboons of Gombe" (1975) for the same show.<ref name=bfi/>
He and Hill wrote and produced ''The Queen's Garden'' (1977) together, and Travers helped produce ''Bloody Ivory'' (1980).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/the-queen-s-garden|title=The Queen's Garden|via=mubi.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/bloody-ivory|title=Bloody Ivory|via=mubi.com}}</ref>
===Later years=== Travers appeared in "Tramps and Poachers", an episode of ''To the Manor Born'' (1980).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/cvfpc/to-the-manor-born--s2-e4-tramps-and-poachers/|title=To the Manor Born - S2 - Episode 4: Tramps and Poachers|website=Radio Times|access-date=6 February 2021|archive-date=14 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214055822/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/cvfpc/to-the-manor-born--s2-e4-tramps-and-poachers/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In ''The First Olympics: Athens 1896'' (1984) he and McKenna played the parents of Edwin Flack.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71846ae0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505185007/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71846ae0|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2019|title=The First Olympics - Athens 1896 (1984)|website=BFI}}</ref>
One of his last credits was "Highland Fling" on ''Lovejoy'' (1992).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7bbc784a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125084212/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7bbc784a|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2021|title=Highland Fling (1992)|website=BFI}}</ref>
==Animal rights campaigner== 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bornfree.org.uk/our-history|title=The History of Born Free|publisher=Born Free Foundation|access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref>
Travers spent his last three years travelling around Europe's slum zoos and a TV documentary that he made exposed the appalling suffering of thousands of animals.
==Death== Travers died from a coronary thrombosis in his sleep at his home in the village of South Holmwood, near Dorking, Surrey, aged 72.<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=55882|title=Travers, William Inglis Lindon [Bill] (1922–1994)}}</ref><ref name=NYT>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/obituaries/bill-travers-72-actor-who-starred-in-film-born-free.html |title=Bill Travers, 72, Actor Who Starred in Film 'Born Free' |author=Glenn Collins |date=1 April 1994 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> He was survived by his wife and children.<ref name=NYT/> His widow, Virginia McKenna, carries on his work to help suffering animals,<ref name="SNF">{{cite web |last1=Ghosh |first1=Shubhobroto |title=Meet Virginia McKenna |url=https://www.sanctuarynaturefoundation.org/article/meet-virginia-mckenna |website=Sanctuary Nature Foundation |access-date=26 December 2020 |date=2019|df=dmy-all}}</ref> as does their son, Will Travers, who is president of the Born Free Foundation.<ref name="BFF-CEO">{{cite web|url=http://www.bornfree.org.uk/about-us/staff/chief-executives-office/|title=Chief Executive's Office|publisher=Born Free Foundation|access-date=15 September 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928091416/http://www.bornfree.org.uk/about-us/staff/chief-executives-office/|archive-date=28 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Will Travers (@willtravers) {{!}} Twitter|url = https://twitter.com/willtravers|website = twitter.com|access-date = 2015-12-21|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
==Credits== ===Filmography=== {{div col}} * ''Conspirator'' (1949) - Mnor Role (undetermined, uncredited role) * ''Trio'' (1950) - Fellowes (segment "Mr. Know-All") * ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950) - Prisoner (uncredited) * ''The Browning Version'' (1951) - Fletcher * ''The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men'' (1952) - Posse Man * ''The Planter's Wife'' (1952) - Planter (uncredited) * ''It Started in Paradise'' (1952) - 2nd Photographer (uncredited) * ''Hindle Wakes'' (1952) - Bob * ''Mantrap'' (1953) - Victor Tasman * ''Street of Shadows'' (1953) - Nigel Langley * ''The Genie'' (1953) - Morgan (segment "The Heel") * ''The Square Ring'' (1953) - Rowdie Rawlings * ''Counterspy'' (1953) - Rex * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1954) - Benvolio * ''Footsteps in the Fog'' (1955) - David Macdonald * ''Geordie'' (1955) - Geordie MacTaggart * ''Bhowani Junction'' (1956) - Patrick Taylor * ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1957) - Robert Browning * ''The Smallest Show on Earth'' (1957) - Matt Spenser * ''The Seventh Sin'' (1957) - Walter Carwin * ''Passionate Summer'', aka ''Storm Over Jamaica'' (1958) - Douglas Lockwood * ''The Bridal Path'' (1959) - Ewan McEwan * ''Gorgo'' (1961) - Joe * ''Two Living, One Dead'' (1961) - Andersson * ''The Green Helmet'' (1961) - Greg Rafferty * ''The Invasion Quartet'' (1961) - Freddie Oppenheimer * ''Born Free'' (1966, as wildlife expert George Adamson) - George Adamson * ''Duel at Diablo'' (1966) - Lt. Scotty McAllister * ''The Admirable Crichton'' (1967, TV Movie) - Crichton * ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1968) - Snout * ''The Lions are Free'' (1969, Documentary) - Himself in the real-life sequel to ''Born Free''. <!-- With the help of conservationist George Adamson, he goes to a remote area of Kenya, Africa to find the lions who appeared in the film. This is a film with some scenes of George Adamson and Bill interacting with lions who are living free. James Hill who directed ''Born Free'' produced this film along with Bill Travers. In November 2006, this film and the film ''The Lion at World's End'' were both released on DVD.<ref name="fatheroflions.org">http://www.fatheroflions.org/Bibliography.html {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2022}}</ref> !--> * ''Ring of Bright Water'' (1969) - Graham Merrill * ''An Elephant Called Slowly'' (1970) - Bill * ''The Lion at World's End'' (1971, Documentary) - Himself * ''Rum Runners'' (1971) - Sanderson * ''The Belstone Fox'' (1973) - Tod * ''How to Handle a Wine'' (1984, Documentary) - Himself / Dinner Guest {{div col end}}
===Television === * ''The Everglades'' as Rand in "The Hostage", syndicated US television series (1962) * ''Lorna Doone'', as John Ridd, 11 episodes (1963 TV series) * ''Rawhide'' as Jeremiah O'Neal in "Incident at Two Graves" (1963) * ''To the Manor Born'', as Arthur Smith (Tramp) in Tramps and Poachers, 1980, series 2 number 4 * ''Lovejoy'', BBC, two episodes 1992 (final appearance)
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==External links== {{Commons category|Bill Travers}} * {{IMDb name|871272}} * [https://www.fatheroflions.org/GeorgeAdamson_Photos_VM.html Photos of Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna and George Adamson and Lions.] * [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bill-travers-1367198.html Obituary: Bill Travers] * [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/obituaries/bill-travers-72-actor-who-starred-in-film-born-free.html Bill Travers, 72, Actor Who Starred In Film 'Born Free']
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