# Gale Tattersall

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
| 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 Michael Coulson | Lighting cameraman |
| 1987 | La Vergine Degli Angeli | Charles Sturridge | Segment of Aria |
| 2015 | Trick Shot | Evan Kaufmann | |
Feature film
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1973 | My Ain Folk | Bill Douglas |
| 1986 | Comrades | Bill Douglas |
| 1988 | Homeboy | Michael Seresin |
| 1989 | Wild Orchid | Zalman King |
| 1990 | Vroom | Beeban Kidron |
| 1991 | The Commitments | Alan Parker |
| 1995 | Hideaway | Brett Leonard |
| 1995 | Tank Girl | Rachel Talalay |
| 1995 | Virtuosity | Brett Leonard |
| 1999 | Pushing Tin | Mike Newell |
| 2001 | Thir13en Ghosts | Steve Beck |
| 2002 | Ghost Ship | Steve Beck |
| 2014 | Atlas Shrugged Part III | J. James Manera |
* ↑ Also credited as camera operator
Video short
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2006 | The Art of the Impossible | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | How I Learned Faith | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | Lost at Sea | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | The Man Is the Message | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | The Matchless Message | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | The Power of Proclamation | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | Principles for Success | Robert Murphree | |
| 2006 | Relying on the Anointing | Robert Murphree | |
| 2007 | Full Flame Film Series | Robert Murphree | With Ben Mesker and Michael Murray |

### Television

TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1973 | The Wreck of the Batavia | Bruce Beresford | Documentary film |
| 1973 | Monster or Miracle? Sydney Opera House | Bruce Beresford | Documentary film |
| 1999 | The Jack Bull | John Badham | |
| 2013 | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film | Laura Dern Sharon Maguire | Segments "Grace" and "Allison" |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 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
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Episode | Ref. |
| 1998 | Outstanding Cinematography | From the Earth to the Moon | Nominated | "Can We Do This?" | |
American Society of Cinematographers
| Year | Category | Title | Result | Episode | Ref. |
| 2007 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | House | Nominated | "House's Head" | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | House | Nominated | "Meaning" | |