American cinematographer and later television director who photographed Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Leonard Nimoy's first film as director.
Charles Correll was an American director of photography whose feature credits included National Lampoon's Animal House, and who later became a busy director of episodic television.
He photographed Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, released in 1984. Almost all of the film was shot on the sound stages at Paramount, including the unstable Genesis planet, with its changing climates, and the steps of Mount Seleya on Vulcan. The film also introduced the Klingon Bird-of-Prey and Spacedock, realised by Industrial Light & Magic.
The destruction of the Enterprise and Kirk's fight with the Klingon commander Kruge as the Genesis planet breaks apart are among its best-known sequences.