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

Film

Short film

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1970Value for MoneyDavid BlestAlso writer and producer
1980Dark WaterAndrew Bogle
1985Wings of Death Nichola Bruce
Michael Coulson
Lighting cameraman
1987La Vergine Degli Angeli Charles Sturridge Segment of Aria
2015Trick ShotEvan Kaufmann

Feature film

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1973My Ain Folk Bill Douglas
1986 Comrades
1988 Homeboy Michael Seresin
1989 Wild Orchid Zalman King Also camera operator
1990Vroom Beeban Kidron
1991 The Commitments Alan Parker
1995 Hideaway Brett Leonard
Tank Girl Rachel Talalay
Virtuosity Brett Leonard
1999 Pushing Tin Mike Newell
2001 Thir13en Ghosts Steve Beck
2002 Ghost Ship
2014 Atlas Shrugged Part III J. James Manera

Video short

YearTitleDirectorNotes
2006The Art of the ImpossibleRobert 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
2007Full Flame Film SeriesWith Ben Mesker and Michael Murray

Television

TV movies

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1973The Wreck of the Batavia Bruce Beresford Documentary film
Monster or Miracle? Sydney Opera House
1999 The Jack Bull John Badham
2013 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film Laura Dern
Sharon Maguire
Segments "Grace" and "Allison"

TV series

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1998 From the Earth to the Moon David Frankel
David Carson
Sally Field
Gary Fleder
Tom Hanks
Frank Marshall
Jonathan Mostow
Jon Turteltaub
Graham Yost
Miniseries
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Danny Cannon Episode "Pilot"
2006–2012 House 120 episodes
2015-2022 Grace and Frankie 80 episodes

Accolades

Primetime Emmy Awards

YearCategoryTitleResultEpisodeRef.
1998 Outstanding Cinematography From the Earth to the MoonNominated"Can We Do This?" [1]

American Society of Cinematographers

YearCategoryTitleResultEpisodeRef.
2007 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography HouseNominated"House's Head"
2009Nominated"Meaning" [2]

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