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15 unusual facts about William Tell


A Life Less Ordinary

When one of her suitors, a loathsome dentist named Elliott (Stanley Tucci), proposes marriage to her, she offers to say yes, but only if he agrees to play "William Tell" with an apple on his head.

Adam Bell

At one point William of Cloudsley shoots an arrow through an apple on his son's head at six score paces, a feat also ascribed to William Tell and other heroes.

Adolf Robinson

Other highlights of his career included the title characters in Rossini's William Tell, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Verdi's Rigoletto, Hérold's Zampa, and Heinrich Marschner's Der Templer und die Jüdin.

Charles Emmanuel Biset

His chief work is a large picture in the Brussels Gallery, formerly in the hall of the Archers' Guild at Antwerp, representing 'William Tell preparing to shoot the Apple from the Head of his Son.'

Conrad Phillips

The pain was so bad that he spent the last episode of The Adventures of William Tell in a wheel chair because he had broken his ankle whilst on location.

Doom novels

A scout with Fox Company, Arlene Sanders was the first woman permitted to join the company, after performing a William Tell routine with the company's Gunnery Sergeant, Goforth.

José Belloni

La música (1923) a monument to William Tell (1931) followed, and Belloni contributed numerous bronzes and bas-reliefs to the General Assembly of Uruguay, as well.

Los hijos de Guillermo Tell

Los hijos de Guillermo Tell (The Sons of William Tell) is a compilation album by Carlos Varela.

Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais

He fought in the 1793 campaigns in the armée du Rhin, as a member of the bataillon de Paris, also known as the bataillon Guillaume-Tell after William Tell.

Queen Fabiola of Belgium

She responded to the threats during the Belgian national holiday celebrations on 21 July by wittily waving an apple to the crowd – a reference to the William Tell folk tale.

Robert Menli Lyon

However, Lyon interceded, arguing that the men were fighting for their country and comparing their actions to those of William Tell and William Wallace.

Shoot a Crooked Arrow

Alfred was known as "the William Tell of Liverpool," and is an expert with the long-, short-, and crossbow.

Shoot Out

Jones gets drunk and amuses himself by shooting objects, ala William Tell, off Decky's head after knocking out a protesting Lomax.

The Story of William Tell

The Story of William Tell is an unfinished film about William Tell.

William Wheatley

His first public appearance was made when he was a child, on October 13, 1826, at the Park Theatre, as "Albert" in William Tell, during an engagement played by Macready, who expressed approbation of the boy, and encouraged expectation of his success.


Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation

Etterlin’s chronicle, which was printed for the first time in 1507 by Michael Furter, is considered to be the earliest surviving printed version of the William Tell story.

Maurice Bavaud

In 1976, Rolf Hochhuth idealized Bavaud as a "new William Tell", while in 1980 Klaus Urner relativized Hochhuth's heroic picture, analyzing psychological aspects of Bavaud's motivation.

Sombre forêt

"Sombre forêt" (Dark Forest) is a soprano aria from Act 2 of the opera William Tell by Gioachino Rossini, to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis.

The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast

The concept of the album is that each song is dedicated to a person who has influenced the duo, which is reflected in the songs themselves; "Rag for William S. Burroughs" features the clatter of a type writer and a gunshot, representing the William Tell incident, and "Tract for Valerie Solanas" contains excerpts from the "SCUM Manifesto".