Turner worked as assistant camera operator on the war comedy 1941 (1979), the comedy Used Cars (1980), the comedy Wrong Is Right (1982, with Adam Glick), the science fiction thriller WarGames (1983), the comedy Murphy's Romance (1985), the science fiction comedy SpaceCamp (1986), the crime comedy Burglar (1987, starring Whoopi Goldberg), and the comedy Baby Boom (1987). His credits as cinematographer are Art for Art (1996), Up Above the World (1997), No Limits (1997), and the crime drama Once in the Life (2000, with Titus Welliver).