Wittliff, William D. 1940- (Bill Witliff, Bill Wittliff)

PERSONAL

Full name, William Dale Wittliff; born 1940, in Taft, TX; married Sally; children: Reid, Allison. Education: Graduated from the University of Texas, 1963.

Addresses:

Office—Encino Press, 510 Baylor St., Austin, TX 78703. Agent—William Morris Agency, One William Morris Pl., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Screenwriter, producer, and author. Encino Press, Austin, TX, founder, 1964.

Member:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Texas Philosophical Society, Texas Institute of Letters (president, 1974-78, member of executive council, 1979-90, fellow, 1993). Sundance Institute (former member of the board of trustees).

Awards, Honors:

Christopher Award, 1985, for Country; seven Emmy Awards, National Critics Award, best miniseries and best television program, D. W. Griffith Award, best television miniseries, National Board of Review, International Monitor Award, best achievement in entertainment programming, Golden Globe Award, George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award, best television miniseries, University of Georgia, 1989, Bronze Wrangler Award (with others), television feature film, Western Heritage Awards, Television Award, adapted long form, Writers Guild of America, 1990, all for Lonesome Dove; Western Heritage Award, outstanding fictional television drama, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1993, for Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times; three Golden Globe Award nominations, including best motion picture, three Academy Award nominations, 1994, Bronze Wrangler Award (with others), theatrical motion picture, Western Heritage Awards, 1995, all for Legends of the Fall.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Producer and second unit director, Raggedy Man, Universal, 1981.

Coproducer, Barbarosa, Universal, 1982.

Producer, Country, Buena Vista, 1984.

(As Bill Wittliff) Producer and director, Red Headed Stranger, Alive Films, 1986.

(As Bill Wittliff) Executive producer, The Cowboy Way, Universal, 1994.

Producer, Legends of the Fall, 1994.

(As Bill Wittliff) Executive producer, Lone Justice 2, Triboro Entertainment Group, 1995.

Film Appearances:

Man in bar, Resurrection, 1980.

Television Work; Series:

Executive producer, Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times, CBS, 1993.

Television Work; Miniseries:

Executive producer, Lonesome Dove, CBS, 1989.

Television Work; Pilots:

Executive producer, Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life (movie; also known as Lone Justice and Ned Blessing), 1992.

Television Work; Episodic:

Producer, "Return to Plum Creek," Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times, CBS, 1993.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

(As Bill Wittliff) Voice of Sheriff Nemeyer, "A Ghost Story," Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times, CBS, 1993.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

The Black Stallion, United Artists, 1979.

Honeysuckle Rose (also known as On the Road Again), Warner Bros., 1980.

Raggedy Man, Universal, 1981.

Barbarosa, Universal, 1982.

Country, Buena Vista, 1984.

(As Bill Wittliff) Red Headed Stranger, Alive Films, 1986.

(As Bill Wittliff) The Cowboy Way, Universal, 1994.

(As Bill Wittliff) Legends of the Fall, 1994.

Lone Justice 2, Triboro Entertainment Group, 1995.

(As Bill Wittliff) The Perfect Scream (also known as Der Sturm), Warner Bros., 2000.

Zapata: El Sueno del Heroe, 2004.

Television Miniseries:

(As Bill Wittliff) Lonesome Dove, CBS, 1989.

Television Movies:

Thaddeus Rose and Eddie, CBS, 1978.

Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life (also known as Lone Justice and Ned Blessing), 1992.

Television Episodes:

"The Smink Brothers," Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times, CBS, 1993.

Nonfiction:

(Editor; with Sheila Ohlendorf) The Horseman of the Americas: An Exhibition from the Hall of the Horseman of the Americas, University of Texas Humanities Research Center, 1968.

Novels:

(With Sara Clark) Raggedy Man, Pinnacle, 1979.