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Joy Adamson

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1910-01-20
Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joy Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles

#1Elsa the Lioness

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryAdventure

First transmitted in 1961, David Attenborough travels to Meru National Park in Kenya to visit Joy and George Adamson and meet Elsa the lioness and her cubs shortly before Elsa's death.

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#2R.U.R.

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Sulla, a robotess

5.8 / 10
Sci-Fi

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

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