William is a very prominent first name for men (#5 out of 1220, Top 1%) and also a very prominent surname for all people (#1923 out of 150436, Top 1%). (2000 U.S. Census).hort forms and variants came into being with a common basic meaning of will, determined, or resolute. William has remained a royal name in the UK for nearly one thousand years. The firstborn son of the current Prince of Wales is named William.
The Deliverance Banjo Boy at 56. Rabun County, Georgia resident Billy Redden was 15 when he was discovered at a casting call in Clayton, Georgia and offered the part of the inbred banjo-playing boy in the 1972 Burt Reynolds sodomy classic Deliverance.
Lightninâ Boy will try to save Willieâs soul (and his own) by winning a haircutting guitar duel with the Devilâs guitar player, Jack Butler, played by the astonishing Steve Vai. Hereâs the duel, which is actually played by Steve Vai with Ry Cooder playing Macchioâs part, or at least the bottleneck portion of it. Iâve heard so many conflicting stories about who played exactly what in this sequence that I donât believe anyone except Cooder and Vai and maybe the film/sound editor knows for sure!