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 .

A visit by American architect Buckminster Fuller in 1967 inspired him 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, with his Brazilian ex-wife Thereza.

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 BruceMichael Coulson Lighting cameraman 1987 La Vergine Degli Angeli Charles Sturridge Segment of Aria 2015 Trick Shot Evan Kaufmann

Feature film

Video short Year Title Director Notes2006 The 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 2007 Full Flame Film Series With Ben Mesker and Michael Murray

Television TV movies Year Title Director Notes1973 The Wreck of the BataviaBruce BeresfordDocumentary film Monster or Miracle? Sydney Opera House 1999 The Jack Bull John Badham 2013 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film Laura DernSharon Maguire Segments "Grace" and "Allison"

TV series Year Title Director Notes 1998 From the Earth to the Moon David FrankelDavid CarsonSally FieldGary FlederTom HanksFrank MarshallJonathan MostowJon TurteltaubGraham 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 "Can We Do This?"

American Society of Cinematographers Year Category Title Result Episode Ref. 2007Outstanding Achievement in CinematographyHouse "House's Head" 2009 "Meaning"