Gus Weill, Sr. (March 12, 1933 – April 13, 2018), was an American author, public relations specialist, and political consultant originally from Lafayette, Louisiana.
[3] Weill convinced McKeithen to implement the state agency, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, or CODOFIL, an idea originally proposed by U.S. Representative James Domengeaux of Lafayette.
[1] An author of novels, plays, and poetry, Weill spent two years working for the producer Otto Preminger.
For nineteen years, Weill hosted the program Louisiana Legends on his state's Public Broadcasting Service network.
One of the characters bears the name "Patoot Gaspard," supposedly a veteran member of the Louisiana State Senate.
[19] For his role in handling more than 350 campaigns, the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame presented Weill in 2017 with the "Friend of John McKeithen Award.
That peripatetic nature led to turns as a political consultant, an advertising executive, a gubernatorial adviser, television and radio host, poet, biographer, and now, at last, full-time novelist.