Gerry Turpin
Gerald Leslie "Gerry" Turpin (1 September 1925,
Biography
Turpin began his career in 1945 at
For his first collaboration with
On Attenborough's, Young Winston (1972), Turpin used a camera lens mounted device he had developed called ColorFlex which represented an alternative to conventional pre-exposure (flashing) of negative film in the lab. The pre-exposure of the film material means dark areas of the image are brightened.
From 1973, Turpin developed his ColorFlex system into a comprehensive system called Lightflex which was used by cameramen such as Oswald Morris (The Wiz, 1978), Freddie Francis (Dune, 1984), Sven Nykvist (Swann in Love, 1984), Adam Greenberg (La Bamba, 1987) and Jost Vacano (Total Recall, 1990). At the 56th Academy Awards in 1984, Turpin received a technical Oscar (Scientific and Engineering Award) for Flex.
Filmography
As cinematographer
- The Queen's Guards(1961)
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) (photographed by)
- The Wrong Box (1966) (photographed by)
- Dutchman (1967)
- The Whisperers (1967) (photographed by)
- The Bobo (1967) (photographed by)
- Deadfall (1968)
- Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Hoffman (1970) (director of photography)
- The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)
- I Want What I Want (1972)
- What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972)
- Young Winston (1972) (director of photography)
- The Last of Sheila (1973) (director of photography)
- The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Television
- The Human Jungle (1 episode, 1964)
- "The Man Who Fell Apart" (1964)
- The Avengers (5 episodes, 1965)
- "Death at Bargain Prices" (1965)
- "The Master Minds" (1965)
- "The Murder Market" (1965)
- "Dial a Deadly Number" (1965)
- "Too Many Christmas Trees" (1965)
References
- ^ "404: Not found | British Society of Cinematographers".
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External links
- Gerry Turpin at IMDb