Gernot Roll (9 April 1939 – 12 November 2020) was a German cinematographer, film director and script writer.

[2][4] He filmed literary works such as Geschlossene Gesellschaft [de],[1] and television series such as Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre and Tatort.

[3] In 1979, he was the cinematographer for The Buddenbrooks, eleven episodes for television of Thomas Mann's novel, directed by Franz Peter Wirth.

[5] Roll's breakthrough came with the celebrated 16-hour TV series Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik by Edgar Reitz in 1984.

[2] Among his films were Caroline Link's Jenseits der Stille and Helmut Dietl's Rossini [de].