Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (néeGessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.[1]
^"Pride and Joy" (PDF). Africa Geographic. August 2009. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her...
British wildlife conservationist and author based in Kenya. His wife JoyAdamson related in her best-selling book Born Free (1960) (in 1966 made into...
her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife JoyAdamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. Though her...
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...
based on the 1960 book of the same name by JoyAdamson. The film Living Free is also based on a book by JoyAdamson; however, it is not based on the book of...
Meru was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and JoyAdamson raised Elsa the Lioness made famous in the best selling book and...
as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn. It follows the later years of Lion advocate Adamson. After his marriage to JoyAdamson of Born Free...
panel of the long-running radio panel game Twenty Questions, along with JoyAdamson, Anona Winn and Norman Hackforth. Glaze was the son of an actor-manager...
true-life film Born Free (1966), portraying conservationists JoyAdamson and George Adamson, who rescue a lioness cub named Elsa and successfully return...
Titanic who befriends Dr Tony Newman. She later portrayed conservationist JoyAdamson in Living Free, the sequel to Born Free. In 1972, she played three different...
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...
for the BBC in 1965. McKenna is best remembered for her 1966 role as JoyAdamson in the true-life film Born Free for which she received a nomination for...
movie The Return of Sam McCloud. Muldaur was cast as conservationist JoyAdamson in the television drama Born Free about Elsa the Lioness. Filming for...
Reserve was one of the two areas in which conservationists George and JoyAdamson raised Elsa the Lioness, made famous in the best-selling book and award-winning...
Sillsby 1998 Tale of the Mummy Captain Shea 1999 To Walk with Lions JoyAdamson 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary Penny Husbands-Bosworth 2004 Jack Brown and...
(1905–1989), poet, creator of the literary form of the Lach dialect JoyAdamson (1910–1980), writer František Vláčil (1924–1999), film director and screenwriter...
team player Elizabeth Wathuti Maina Macharia George Adamson Helen Gichohi Ikal Angelei JoyAdamson Daphne Sheldrick Phyllis Omido Saba Douglas-Hamilton...
Free, based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness raised by George and JoyAdamson. Mara was born in the wild in 1965, a premature cub abandoned by her...
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...
MacPherson. The panel comprised Richard Dimbleby, Jack Train, Anona Winn and JoyAdamson, in later years comedian Peter Glaze also. A later presenter, Gilbert...
The park was made famous by JoyAdamson and the lioness Elsa, subjects of the 1966 film Born Free. In January 1980, Adamson was murdered in the reserve...
Southampton in Britain to South Africa. It linked Kisumu and Nairobi. JoyAdamson, the author of Born Free, lived on the shores of the lake in the mid-1960s...
crown in the coat of arms of the Free State (South Africa). In 1969, JoyAdamson, of Born Free fame, wrote The Spotted Sphinx, a biography of her pet...
(1872–1927), French music publisher Franz Bardon (1909–1958), occultist JoyAdamson (1910–1980), naturalist and author Helmut Niedermeyer (1926–2014), Austrian...
Assistant Government Minister January 3, 1980 JoyAdamson, conservationist August 20, 1989 George Adamson, conservationist February 13, 1990 Robert Ouko...
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