. 𝗪𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗔 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 “𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚕” 𝙳. 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚏 𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟶-𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟿 Sadly a phenomenal renaissance man died two days ago from a heart attack. I’ve been following Bill Wittliff since he helped produce and write the television series LONESOME DOVE (he also wrote 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗠, 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟, 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 and many more). But I also fell in love with his amazing photographic work in two of his books 𝗔 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗩𝗘, and 𝗩𝗔𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗥𝗢: 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗪𝗕𝗢𝗬. My daughter and I got to meet him and his wife, Dr. Sally Wittliff at an event at The Wittliff Collections at The Texas State University in San Marcos. He couldn’t be more delightful. We talked for about 15 minutes about the Mexican Vaquero’s influence on Texas culture and about several films including A NIGHT IN OLD MEXICO, a film he wrote and produced. We both have a good friend, Eric A. Williams who was a line producer on this last film starring Robert Duvall. His wife was so sweet with my daughter. He truly inspired greatness and spread his passions far and wide. A great loss. #atruelegend #billwittliff #rip #texaslegend https://www.instagram.com/juliocedillo/p/BylkNTeHlzG/?igshid=1lpdv7cydfuxu
