Gale Tattersall
{{Short description|British cinematographer}}
{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Gale Tattersall
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}}
| birth_place = England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| spouse = Teresa Tattersall
(divorced)
| years_active = 1969–2022
| children = 2
}}
Gale Tattersall (born 1948) is an English cinematographer.
Early life
Tattersall divided his childhood and education between Liverpool and the Indian city of Darjeeling, where he attended a boarding school due to his father's role an engineer at a steel company in Mumbai.
At the age of 16, he left home in Liverpool and moved to London, where he started working as a photographer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
A visit by American architect Buckminster Fuller in 1967 inspired himto pick up a Bolex camera to document the visit, and he became so enchanted by the filmmaking process that he enrolled at the London Film School for a two-year course.
Career
Upon graduation, Tattersall received a grant from the British Film Institute to make a short film called Value For Money, inspired by a dream and featuring a pre-fame Quentin Crisp.
He has since been the cinematographer on films such as The Commitments and Tank Girl, as well as 120 episodes of the medical drama series House.
He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie for his work on Ron Howard's 1998 docudrama miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
He was twice nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series for the House episodes "House's Head" and "Meaning". He is the founder of the HDD SLR Workshops in Santa Monica, California.
Personal life
Tattersall has two sons, Rio and Sunny, with his Brazilian ex-wife Teresa.
Filmography
=Film=
Short film
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
| 1970
| Value for Money | David Blest | Also writer and producer |
| 1980
| Dark Water | Andrew Bogle | |
| 1985
| Wings of Death | Nichola Bruce | Lighting cameraman |
| 1987
| La Vergine Degli Angeli | Segment of Aria |
| 2015
| Trick Shot | Evan Kaufmann | |
Feature film
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Director |
| 1973
| My Ain Folk |rowspan=2|Bill Douglas |
| 1986
| Comrades |
| 1988
| Homeboy |
| 1989
| Wild Orchid{{efn|Also credited as camera operator}} |
| 1990
| Vroom |
| 1991 |
| rowspan=3|1995
| Hideaway |
| Tank Girl |
| Virtuosity
| Brett Leonard |
| 1999 |
| 2001
|rowspan=2|Steve Beck |
| 2002 |
| 2014
| J. James Manera |
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Video short
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
| rowspan=8|2006
| The Art of the Impossible |rowspan=9|Robert Murphree | |
| How I Learned Faith
| |
| Lost at Sea
| |
| The Man Is the Message
| |
| The Matchless Message
| |
| The Power of Proclamation
| |
| Principles for Success
| |
| Relying on the Anointing
| |
| 2007
| Full Flame Film Series | With Ben Mesker and Michael Murray |
=Television=
TV movies
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
| rowspan=2|1973
| The Wreck of the Batavia |rowspan=2|Bruce Beresford |rowspan=2|Documentary film |
| Monster or Miracle? Sydney Opera House |
| 1999
| |
| 2013
| Segments "Grace" and "Allison" |
TV series
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes |
| 1998
| David Frankel | Miniseries |
| 2000
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Episode "Pilot" |
| 2006–2012
| House | | 120 episodes |
| 2015–2022
| | 80 episodes |
Accolades
Primetime Emmy Awards
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Category ! Title ! Result ! Episode ! Ref. |
| 1998
| From the Earth to the Moon | {{nom}} | "Can We Do This?" | [http://www.emmys.com/nominations/1998/OUTSTANDING%20CINEMATOGRAPHY%20FOR%20A%20MINISERIES%20OR%20A%20MOVIE "Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for 1998 – OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A MINISERIES OR A MOVIE"], Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Retrieved 22 July 2012. |
American Society of Cinematographers
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Category ! Title ! Result ! Episode ! Ref. |
| 2007
|rowspan=2|Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography |rowspan=2|House | {{nom}} | "House's Head" | |
| 2009
| {{nom}} | "Meaning" |[http://www.theasc.com/asc_news/awards/awards_history.php "The ASC – Past ASC Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305163358/http://www.theasc.com/asc_news/awards/awards_history.php |date=5 March 2012 }}, American Society of Cinematographers, Retrieved 22 July 2012. |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0851320}}
- [http://galetattersall.com/ Gale Tattersall] Official Website
- [http://hddslrworkshops.com/ Gale Tattersall] at HD DSLR Workshops
{{BLP sources|date=May 2011}}
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Category:British cinematographers