Gale Tattersall

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Gale Tattersall
Born1948 (age 7576)
England
OccupationCinematographer
Spouse(s)Teresa Tattersall
(divorced)
Children2

Gale Tattersall (born 1948) is an English cinematographer.

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Early life

Tattersall was born in England in 1948. He 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 Tattersall to 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

YearTitleCinematographerCamera operatorSelfNotes
2006–2012 House YesTV series – 120 episodes
NominatedAmerican Society of Cinematographers Awards 2008 – Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series for episode "House's Head"
NominatedAmerican Society of Cinematographers Awards 2006 – Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series for episode "Meaning" [1]
2006Relying on the AnointingYesVideo short
The Power of ProclamationYesVideo short
The Matchless MessageYesVideo short
The Man Is the MessageYesVideo short
Lost at SeaYesVideo short
How I Learned FaithYesVideo short
The Art of the ImpossibleYesVideo short
2004The Commitments: Looking BackYesVideo documentary
2002 Ghost Ship Yes
2001 Thir13en Ghosts Yes
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation YesTV series – Pilot
1999 Pushing Tin Yes
The Jack Bull YesTV movie
1998 From the Earth to the Moon YesTV mini-series
Nominated50th Primetime Emmy Awards – Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie [2]
HBO First Look: Making "From the Earth to the Moon"YesTV series documentary
1995 Virtuosity Yes
Tank Girl Yes
Hideaway Yes
1991 The Commitments Yes
The Addams Family YesAdditional photographer
1990VroomYes
1989 Wild Orchid YesYes
1988 Homeboy Yes
Space RidersYes
1987 Aria YesSegment "La Vergine Degli Angeli"
1986 Comrades Yes
Forever YoungYes
Link YesDirector of photography: UK second unit
1985Wings of DeathYesYesShort film
The Emerald Forest Yes
1983 Those Glory Glory Days YesTV movie
1980Dark WaterYesShort film
Sweet WilliamYes
1978 The Getting of Wisdom Yes
1977 Summerfield Yes
1976 Don's Party Yes
The Fourth Wish Yes
1974 Barry McKenzie Holds His Own Yes
Behind the Scenes Footage from "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own"Yes
1973My Ain FolkYes
Monster or Miracle? Sydney Opera HouseYesTV movie
The Wreck of the BataviaYesTV movie
1972 The Adventures of Barry McKenzie Yes
My ChildhoodYesAdditional photographer

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