Gerry Fisher

Gerald Fisher, BSC (23 June 1926 – 2 December 2014) was an English cinematographer.

He was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography, for The Go-Between (1971) and Aces High (1976).

Early life Fisher was born in London in 1926. Early employment by Kodak and De Havilland Aircraft was followed by service in the Royal Navy during WWII.

Career Fisher then worked as a clapper boy at Alliance Riverside Studios, Twickenham, and as assistant cameraman on documentaries for Wessex Films, before becoming a Focus puller at Shepperton Studios.

After years in this capacity on films like An Inspector Calls (1954), he was promoted to camera operator on Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), before finally becoming director of photography on Joseph Losey's Accident (1967).

Fisher collaborated with Losey on a further seven films, including The Go-Between (1971).

In 1976, Fisher was nominated for the Best Cinematography award by the British Society of Cinematographers, for Aces High, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for the same film. In 1977 he was nominated in the César Awards for Best Cinematography for Monsieur Klein.

Later life and death Fisher and his wife retired to The Film and Television Charity's Glebelands Care Home at Wokingham in Berkshire.

He died on 2 December 2014, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in nearby Reading, at the age of 88.

Filmography Film

Short film Year Title Director 1972 The Man and the Snake Sture Rydman 1981 Serge Gainsbourg

Television Year Title Director Notes 1973 ITV Saturday Night Theatre Jack Gold Episode "Conflict" (aka "Catholics") 1994 Dandelion Dead Mike Hodges Miniseries

TV movies Year Title Director 1984 Samson and Delilah Lee Philips 1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom Michael Ritchie

Awards and nominations