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Jun 10, 2024 · The acclaimed screenwriter, publisher, and photographer Bill Wittliff was born in 1940 in the small south Texas town of Taft. He was raised by a single mother who worked as a local switchboard operator, a history Wittliff drew upon when writing the screenplay for the 1981 film Raggedy Man.
We have missed interviewing such brilliant people as William D. Wittliff (who died in 2019) and Roger Payne (who died the same month as McCarthy). What nice interviews those might have been. I loved the interview with Dennis McCarthy.
Jun 27, 2024 · Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove exhibition presents classic images taken during filming by Bill Wittliff, renowned photographer, writer, and executive producer (with Suzanne De Passe) of Lonesome Dove.
3 days ago · FilmInk salutes the work of creatives who have never truly received the credit they deserve. In this installment: late producer/writer David Giler, who penned The Parallax View, Myra Breckinridge and
3 days ago · Exhibition. In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered Bill Wittliff a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—to visit a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways.
Jun 20, 2024 · Lonesome Dove Production Archive: Highly honored CBS miniseries adapted from Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by screenwriter, Bill Wittliff. Cormac McCarthy Papers : Pulitzer...
Jun 18, 2024 · The Bronze Wrangler is an award presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to honor the top works in Western music, film, television and literature . The awards were first presented in 1961. The Wrangler is a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback, and is designed by artist John Free.
