Gerald Perry Finnerman (December 17, 1931 – April 6, 2011) was an American cinematographer who worked on TV series such as Moonlighting and the original Star Trek.
He served as vice president of the American Society of Cinematographers, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special.
Employing lighting techniques and changing background wall colors, he discovered that a range of effects could be seen on a single set.
"[4] He worked on Star Trek through most of the three-year run of the series, and afterwards moved on to Mission: Impossible, another Paramount (and former Desilu) production.
He won an Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special for his work on the television film Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women.
[2] In 1996, he was inducted into the Producers Guild Hall of Fame for his work on Star Trek,[1] and he was nominated by the Motion Picture & Television Fund for "Philanthropic Man of the Year".