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4 unusual facts about Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory


Ex:el

It is considered to be the first major release to feature the sample from the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory of the phrase "we are the music makers", which became one of the most common vocal samples in electronic music.

Harper Goff

Years later, Harper created the submarine, Proteus, for the film, Fantastic Voyage, and art directed the highly acclaimed Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Sauce Money

Sauce Money released a 2008 single entitled "Listen 2 Me", sampling the Oompa-Loompas from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Werner Heyking

He is perhaps most notable for his role of newspaper salesman Mr. Jopeck in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.


Diana Sowle

Sowle is most notable for her role of Mrs. Bucket in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and her performance of the song "Cheer Up Charlie" in that film.

Paris Themmen

On May 4, 2011, Themmen appeared on the ITV Breakfast programme, Daybreak, alongside the other child actors from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt), Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde) and Michael Bollner (Augustus Gloop).

Peter Capell

He also appeared in many films, including Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), in which he played the minor role of a "tinker" who spoke to Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) at the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

William Allingham

We daren't go a-hunting/For fear of little men... was quoted by the character of The Tinker near the beginning of the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, as well as in Mike Mignola's comic book short story Hellboy: The Corpse, plus the 1973 horror film Don't Look in the Basement.


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