History has immortalised European folk hero William Tell and his ‘apple-shot’ moment — but what stories made his name across ...

Despite Rossini’s banger of an overture and a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck as William Tell, I’ll wager that few ...

Like many who grew up in the ’90s, I have a fondness for period epics. So when I saw the description of William Tell while ...

A 'William Tell' circus act went disastrously wrong when a performer trying to shoot an apple off his wife's head hit her in the face instead. Last night Cathy Jamet, of French celebrity double ...

The battles are staged with gusto but a rickety screenplay and underwhelming central performance mean this misses the mark.

Behind the most recent of these doors is the historical thriller William Tell, released in cinemas this week. The film sees Bang play the Swiss folk hero opposite Rafe Spall and Ben Kingsley ...

William Tell’s status as a folk hero makes his story kind of a Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves for the Swiss, only they're taking a country from the rich (Austria) and giving it to the poor.