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Born Free

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Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. [1]

63 relations: Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Original Song, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, American Film Institute, Animal rights, Ben Mankiewicz, Bill Travers, Born Free (Matt Monro song), Born Free (TV series), Born Free Foundation, Born Free: A New Adventure, Chris Noth, Christian the lion, Cinema of the United Kingdom, Columbia Pictures, Diana Muldaur, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Directors Guild of America Award, Don Black (lyricist), Don Deacon, Elsa the lioness, Flixster, Gary Collins (actor), Geoffrey Keen, George Adamson, Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Haile Selassie, Hollywood blacklist, Honor Blackman, James Hill (British director), John Barry (composer), Joy Adamson, Kenya, Lester Cole, Linda Purl, Lion, Living Free, Mara the Lioness, Mascot, Nature (TV series), NBC, Nigel Davenport, Paul Radin, PBS, Richard Harris, Rotten Tomatoes, ..., Sam Jaffe (producer), Scots Guards, Shepperton Studios, Susan Hampshire, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, The Smallest Show on Earth, To Walk with Lions, Tony Fitzjohn, Turner Classic Movies, Uganda Game and Fisheries Department, Vincent Canby, Virginia McKenna. Expand index (13 more) »

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Animal rights

Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.

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Ben Mankiewicz

Benjamin Frederick "Ben" Mankiewicz (born March 25, 1967) is an American television personality.

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Bill Travers

William Inge Lindon-Travers MBE (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was a Special Forces Army officer, English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist, known professionally as Bill Travers.

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Born Free (Matt Monro song)

"Born Free" is a popular song with music by John Barry, and lyrics by Don Black.

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Born Free (TV series)

Born Free is an American adventure/drama series based on the 1966 movie of the same name.

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Born Free Foundation

The Born Free Foundation is an international conservation and animal rights organisation based in the United Kingdom focusing on wild animals.

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Born Free: A New Adventure

Born Free: A New Adventure is a 1996 American made-for-TV adventure film, starring Jonathan Brandis and Ariana Richards.

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Chris Noth

Christopher David Noth (born November 13, 1954) is an American actor.

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Christian the lion

Christian the lion was a lion born in captivity and purchased by Australian John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke from Harrods department store in London in 1969.

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Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Diana Muldaur

Diana Charlton Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress.

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Diergaarde Blijdorp

italic (Blijdorp Zoo), also named Rotterdam Zoo, is a zoo in the northwestern part of Rotterdam, one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands.

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Directors Guild of America Award

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America.

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Don Black (lyricist)

Don Black, (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist.

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Don Deacon

Donald John Deacon (June 2, 1912 – August 1, 1943) was a professional ice hockey winger who played parts of three seasons for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League from 1936–37 to 1939–40.

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Elsa the lioness

Elsa (28 January 195624 January 1961) was a Kenyan lioness raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" – by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few weeks old.

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Flixster

Flixster was an American social movie site for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.

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Gary Collins (actor)

Gary Ennis Collins (April 30, 1938 – October 13, 2012) was an American film and television actor and talk show host.

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Geoffrey Keen

Geoffrey Keen (21 August 1916 – 3 November 2005) was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films.

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George Adamson

George Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the Baba ya Simba ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a British wildlife conservationist and author.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

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Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer or composers for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, video games or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie I (ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ, qädamawi haylä səllasé,;, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974.

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Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist - as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known - was the practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals during the mid-20th century because they were accused of having Communist ties or sympathies.

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Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925)Ancestry.com.

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James Hill (British director)

James Hill (1 August 1919 – 7 October 1994) was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career spanned 52 years between 1937 and 1989, best remembered for his documentaries and short subjects such as Giuseppina and The Home Made Car, and as director of the internationally acclaimed Born Free.

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John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.

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Joy Adamson

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner, 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Lester Cole

Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 – August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter.

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Linda Purl

Linda Purl (born September 2, 1955) is an American actress and singer, known for her roles as Sheila Munroe in the 1982 horror film Visiting Hours, and Ben Matlock's daughter Charlene Matlock for the first season of the television series Matlock.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).

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Living Free

Living Free is a 1972 British drama film, written by Millard Kaufman and directed by Jack Couffer.

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Mara the Lioness

Mara the Lioness is an animal actor who appeared as Elsa in the 1966 movie Born Free, based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness raised by George and Joy Adamson.

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Mascot

A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.

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Nature (TV series)

Nature is a wildlife television program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nigel Davenport

Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

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Paul Radin

A son of the rabbi Adolph Moses Radin, Paul Radin was born in the cosmopolitan Polish city of Łódź in 1883.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Richard Harris

Richard St.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sam Jaffe (producer)

Sam Jaffe (May 21, 1901 – January 10, 2000) was, at different points in his career in the motion picture industry, an agent, a producer and a studio executive.

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Scots Guards

The Scots Guards (SG), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931.

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Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, CBE (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress, known for her many television and film roles.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth (US: Big Time Operators) is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford.

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To Walk with Lions

To Walk with Lions is a 1999 film starring Richard Harris as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn.

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Tony Fitzjohn

Anthony Raymond Fitzjohn, OBE is a conservationist who worked extensively with George Adamson at Kora in Africa.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Uganda Game and Fisheries Department

The Uganda Game and Fisheries Department was the lead wildlife conservation agency of the Uganda Protectorate.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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Virginia McKenna

Virginia Anne McKenna OBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free

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