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British William Tell actor Conrad Phillips makes first visit to Switzerland

Countless actors – professional and amateur – have played William Tell over the past 200 years. Yet the man millions of people around the world knew as the Swiss hero was actually British. At the invitation of swissinfo.ch, in 2004 Conrad Phillips paid his first visit to Switzerland. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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