Gale Tattersall (born 1948) is a British Born American filmmaker, cinematographer and founder of the HDD SLR Workshops in Santa Monica, California. He is the cinematographer for The Commitments and Tank Girl and the director of photography on over thirty House episodes. He is currently mentoring upcoming filmmakers on the art of cinematography and film making.
Early life and education Gale Tattersall's childhood and education were split between the outskirts of Liverpool, England, and boarding school in Darjeeling in the Himalayas in India, his father being an engineer at a steel company in Bombay, (Mumbai).
At the age of sixteen, he left home in Liverpool, to make his life in London. The beginnings of his journey to becoming a filmmaker really started as a photographer at the Architectural Association School Of Architecture in London. A visit by Buckminster Fuller, the renowned American architect and philosopher, in the summer of 1967, caused him to pick up a Bolex to document his visit. He became so enchanted by the film making process that he enrolled at the London Film School for the two-year course. At the time of Graduation, he received a grant from the British Film Institute to make a short film called “Value For Money”, inspired by a dream, and featuring Quentin Crisp, later to become famous for “The Naked Civil Servant”.
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