biography
pronunciation:
[parer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–44)
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| biography:
| News photographer, born in Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. Trained for the priesthood, he developed an interest in cinematography. In 1940 he became an official cameraman with the 2nd Australian Imperial Forces and went to the Middle East, filming the action at the siege of Tobruk, and later worked in Greece, Syria, and New Guinea. He shot a number of documentary films in the heat of battle, and his Kokoda Front (1942) was the first Australian film to win an Oscar. In 1943 he joined the US troops for the liberation of the Pacific, and was killed while filming their landing at Peleliu, Caroline Is. |
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