• Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her...
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    British wildlife conservationist and author based in Kenya. His wife Joy Adamson related in her best-selling book Born Free (1960) (in 1966 made into...
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  • her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. Though her...
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  • 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...
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  • Born Free is a book by Joy Adamson. Released in 1960 by Pantheon Books, it describes Adamson's experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. It was translated...
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  • own with the help of George Adamson and his wife, Joy. Nigel Davenport as George Adamson Susan Hampshire as Joy Adamson Geoffrey Keen as Kendall Peter...
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  • Meru was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness made famous in the best selling book and...
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  • as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn. It follows the later years of Lion advocate Adamson. After his marriage to Joy Adamson of Born Free...
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  • panel of the long-running radio panel game Twenty Questions, along with Joy Adamson, Anona Winn and Norman Hackforth. Glaze was the son of an actor-manager...
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  • Chris Noth. Joy and George Adamson do not appear as the main characters in the story. Gary Collins as George Adamson Diana Muldaur as Joy Adamson Hal Frederick...
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    Titanic who befriends Dr Tony Newman. She later portrayed conservationist Joy Adamson in Living Free, the sequel to Born Free. In 1972, she played three different...
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  • Velvet (group) Joy Adamson (1910–1980), wildlife rehabilitator and author Joy Alukkas (born 1956), Indian businessman from Kerala Joy Ballard (born 1966)...
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    movie The Return of Sam McCloud. Muldaur was cast as conservationist Joy Adamson in the television drama Born Free about Elsa the Lioness. Filming for...
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  • true-life film Born Free (1966), portraying conservationists Joy Adamson and George Adamson, who rescue a lioness cub named Elsa and successfully return...
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    for the BBC in 1965. McKenna is best remembered for her 1966 role as Joy Adamson in the true-life film Born Free for which she received a nomination for...
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  • as Selena Wilkinson In 1960, Joy Adamson published a book called Born Free, based on her (and her husband, George Adamson) experience raising the lioness...
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    William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist and singer. Adamson began his career in the late 1970s as a founding...
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    Reserve was one of the two areas in which conservationists George and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness, made famous in the best-selling book and award-winning...
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    Free, based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness raised by George and Joy Adamson. Mara was born in the wild in 1965, a premature cub abandoned by her...
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    Sillsby 1998 Tale of the Mummy Captain Shea 1999 To Walk with Lions Joy Adamson 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary Penny Husbands-Bosworth 2004 Jack Brown and...
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  • educationist Joy Adamson (1910–1980), Czech-born British naturalist and author Julia Adamson (born 1960), Canadian-born British composer Ken Adamson (1938–2023)...
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  • Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublev Anatoly Solonitsyn Born Free Joy Adamson Virginia McKenna George Adamson Bill Travers El Greco El Greco Mel Ferrer Isadora Duncan...
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  • MacPherson. The panel comprised Richard Dimbleby, Jack Train, Anona Winn and Joy Adamson, in later years comedian Peter Glaze also. A later presenter, Gilbert...
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    (1905–1989), poet, creator of the literary form of the Lach dialect Joy Adamson (1910–1980), writer František Vláčil (1924–1999), film director and screenwriter...
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    crown in the coat of arms of the Free State (South Africa). In 1969, Joy Adamson, of Born Free fame, wrote The Spotted Sphinx, a biography of her pet...
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  • team player Elizabeth Wathuti Maina Macharia George Adamson Helen Gichohi Ikal Angelei Joy Adamson Daphne Sheldrick Phyllis Omido Saba Douglas-Hamilton...
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  • sound-recordist and producer Elsa the Tamworth Lioness 1x30 min Following Joy and George Adamson as they search for Elsa the Lioness and her three cubs. Producer...
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    The park was made famous by Joy Adamson and the lioness Elsa, subjects of the 1966 film Born Free. In January 1980, Adamson was murdered in the reserve...
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    Southampton in Britain to South Africa. It linked Kisumu and Nairobi. Joy Adamson, the author of Born Free, lived on the shores of the lake in the mid-1960s...
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    longest production run platforms, seizing production in 2015. Died: Joy Adamson (born Friederike Gessner), 69, Austro-Hungarian naturalist and author...
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