Gale Tattersall

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Gale Tattersall (born May 15, 1948 in Wirral near Liverpool , Great Britain ) is a British cameraman .

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Tattersall grew up in the suburbs of Liverpool and at times in boarding school in Darjeeling , India , when his father was employed at a steel mill in Bombay . At 16 he left Liverpool and went to London . Tattersall took his first professional steps as a photographer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture there .

Not yet 20 years old, he enrolled at the London Film School for a two-year course. After graduating, he was allowed to shoot the short film “ Value For Money ” for the British Film Institute . The then head of the BFI Production Board, Bruce Beresford , hired him as a simple cameraman for his first full-length feature film, “ The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie ”. Beresford and he should work together several times in the future.

At the time of the heyday of the new Australian film, in the mid-1970s, Tattersall arrived in Australia and collaborated with the avant-garde of the local cinema, including Peter Weir , George Miller and Fred Schepisi . Back in England, he shot the film “ My Ain Folk ” and received the “Director Of Photography Award” at the Cork Film Festival. In the following years, Gale Tattersall mainly took pictures for advertising and during this work met important film directors such as Alan Parker , Adrian Lyne , Hugh Hudson as well as Ridley Scott and his brother Tony Scott . His most important teachers of those London years included the respected cameramen David Watkin , John Alcott , Roger Pratt , Michael Seresin and Peter Biziou .

Under the direction of chief cameraman Philippe Rousselot , Tattersall last photographed a film as a simple camera operator in 1984, John Boorman's The Emerald Forest . Tattersall and the film crew traveled to the Brazilian rainforest on the Amazon for eight months to make the film . The following year, Tattersall made his debut in the original story about an idiosyncratic monkey Link - The Butler as chief cameraman (in the second unit). Gale Tattersall then turned down Stanley Kubrick's offer to work again as a simple cameraman on his Vietnam War epic Full Metal Jacket in 1985.

Tattersall also worked as a cameraman for commercials between individual shoots. Since the late 1980s he has been signed to Hollywood several times . In between he also took on directorial contracts for advertising and shot individual commercials for the British company BFCS, which also had an office in Santa Monica, California .

In the 1990s, television began to play a role in Tattersall's career. He photographed all twelve episodes of the HBO series “ From The Earth To The Moon ” with Tom Hanks as the presenter. For this achievement, the Briton received an Emmy nomination. Another top series, supervised by Gale Tattersall in terms of camera technology, was launched in the new millennium by Dr. House . He was behind the camera in more than 110 episodes of this multi-award-winning NBC program and received an ASC Award nomination in both 2007 and 2009.

Filmography (as head cameraman, selection)

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less

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personal data
SURNAME Tattersall, Gale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wirral , UK