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William Dale Wittliff (January 21, 1940 – June 9, 2019), sometimes credited as Bill Wittliff, was an American screenwriter, author, and photographer who wrote the screenplays for The Perfect Storm (2000), Barbarosa (1982), Raggedy Man (1981), and many others.
William D. Wittliff. Writer: Legends of the Fall. Bill Wittliff was born in Taft, a small town in south Texas, in 1940.
- January 1, 1
- Taft, Texas, USA
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- Austin, Texas, USA
Jun 10, 2019 · William D. Wittliff, the elegant Texas screenwriter who penned the teleplay for the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove and worked on such features as Legends of the Fall, Honeysuckle Rose and The...
Jun 13, 2019 · Bill Wittliff, a garrulous Texas-bred screenwriter who adapted Larry McMurtry’s sweeping Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel “Lonesome Dove” into a hit mini-series, died on Sunday near his home...
Writer: Legends of the Fall. Bill Wittliff was born in Taft, a small town in south Texas, in 1940. After his parents divorced, he and his brother Jim moved with their mother to Gregory, Texas, where Mrs. Wittliff ran a small telephone office during World War II (these experiences provided the basis for "Raggedy Man," Wittliff's feature film).
- January 21, 1940
- June 9, 2019
May 28, 2020 · William Dale “Bill” Wittliff, celebrated screenwriter, photographer, publisher, novelist, film director, and major benefactor, described as a “Renaissance hombre” by Texas Monthly, was born in Taft, Texas, on January 21, 1940.
For all the identifiers that obituary writers will reach for to describe Bill Wittliff—screenwriter, photographer, book publisher, novelist, sketch artist, archivist,...
