Gerry Turpin

Gerald Leslie "Gerry" Turpin (born 1 September 1925 in Wandsworth, London; died 16 September 1997 in North Cotswold, Gloucestershire) was an English film cameraman and award-winning cinematographer.

Turpin began his career in 1945 at Ealing Studios as a camera assistant to Douglas Slocombe and Stanley Pavey. From 1953 he worked as a camera operator, and worked with the likes of Pavey, Gordon Dines, Desmond Dickinson, Otto Heller, Gilbert Taylor, Reginald H. Wyer and Harry Waxman. In 1961 he made his first film as director of photography, The Queen's Guards with director Michael Powell.

His first collaboration with Bryan Forbes in 1964, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, earned him a nomination at the 1965 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). For his next film with Forbes, 1967's The Whisperers, he received a BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. For his camera work in Richard Attenborough's directing debut Oh! What a Lovely War, Turpin received the 1969 BSC Best Cinematography Award and his second BAFTA.

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