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He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944, and his son, also named Damien, was born in 1945, 6 months after his father had died. Parer was a Catholic. [1] The younger Damien became a film and TV producer. [9]
Veteran film producer Damien Parer has written a memoir that reveals how he was affected by being the son of the celebrated World War II cameraman renowned for his images of wounded Diggers on the ...
- Official War Correspondent
- Parer's Oscar Award
- Paramount Work in The Pacific
- Parer's Last Reel
In August 1940, Parer joined the Department of Information Film Unit as an official war correspondent and photographer. He was sent to the Middle East to film the Australians serving in the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF). While he was there, Parer filmed in the Western Desert in Libya and later in Greece during the ill-fated campaign in Apr...
Parer's newsreel footage of the fighting on the Kokoda Track was used to produce the award-winning film Kokoda Front Line!. The film was edited by Terry Banks and produced by Ken Hall, the head of Cinesound productions. In 1943, Kokoda Front Line! won one of four Hollywood Academy Awards presented for wartime documentaries.
Kokoda Front Line! brought Parer international fame. However, he was dissatisfied with the conditions and rules at the Department of Information. Parer resigned from the department in August 1943 and joined Paramount News to film American troops in the Pacific. Less than a year later, he was killed 'in action' while filming US Marines. His first as...
To capture images of the faces of men in battle, Parer believed he needed to be close to the front line. Sometimes even in front of it. He was doing this when he died. With his back to the enemy, Parer filmed the marines advancing and was killed by Japanese fire. Chester Wilmot, war correspondent and friend of Parer, wrote to his widow: On 7 May 19...
David Parer is a nephew of Damien Parer and a noted wildlife cameramn who worked for 35 years with the ABC History Unit and also for the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery. He now works for other independent film makers.
Sep 23, 2024 · On 23 March 1944, he married Elizabeth Cotter with whom he had one son, born in 1945 who went on to become a film and TV producer. Damien was killed on 17 September 1944 while covering a US Marine Corps advance on Peleliu Island and was initially buried there in a shallow grave. He was 32 years old.
DAMIEN PETER PARER (1912-1944), war photographer and cameraman, was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern, Melbourne, youngest of eight children of John Arthur Parer, a hotel-keeper from Spain, and his Victorian-born wife Teresa, née Carolin.
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Even sixty years after his death Damien Parer remains one of Australia's most well-known combat cameramen. He was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern in Melbourne but was educated largely in Bathurst, at Saint Stanislaus School.
