John Power (director)

John Beresford Power (20 November 1930 – February 2016) was an Australian film and television director, who began his career as a journalist.

Power was born in Maitland, New South Wales. His older brother was Dave Power, a long-distance runner who won medals at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. After leaving school, he joined the Maitland Mercury as a cadet journalist, later moving to Sydney to work for The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mirror. He was a political journalist in Canberra at the time of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955, events which he would later cover in the documentary film Like a Summer Storm.

Power won the AACTA Award for Best Direction for the 1974 TV film Billy and Percy.

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