Movies and television spread the Tell legend further and wider still. In 1940, Hollywood produced an animated cartoon titled Popeye Meets William Tell, in which Popeye plays the son and has a can ...

For centuries, William Tell has been Switzerland’s national hero. Now, he’s the Alpine nation’s comic book superhero. WSJ’s John Letzing talks with the artist behind “Tell.” ...

Inspired by the legendary tale, Claes Bang takes on the role of William Tell, a noble huntsman whose peaceful life is shattered when the ruthless Austrian Empire invades his homeland of Switzerland.

A cartoon in the early 1960s turned on the ... Longfellow is stuck on "Listen my children while I pause, to tell the ride of William Dawes" when his wife suggests using the name of that other ...