Career
He was the cinematographer for such movies as The Commitments and Tank Girl and the director of photography on 120 House episodes. He is currently mentoring upcoming filmmakers on the art of cinematography and film making. Gale Tattersall"s childhood and education were split between the outskirts of Liverpool, England, and boarding school in Darjeeling, India, his father being an engineer at a steel company in Mumbai (then called Bombay).
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 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 camera to document his visit.
He became so enchanted by the film making process that he enrolled at the London Film School for its two-year course. At graduation, he received a grant from the British Film Institute to make a short film called Value Foreign Money, inspired by a dream and featuring Quentin Crisp, later to become famous for The Naked Civil Servant.
