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.

John Power
Born	John Beresford Power (1930-11-20)20 November 1930 Maitlan, New South Wales, Australia
Died	February 2016(2016-02-00) (aged 85)
Occupations	Film director journalist television director
Family	Dave Power (brother)

Early life and journalism career

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.

Awards

Power won the AFI Award for Best Direction for the 1974 TV docudrama Billy and Percy.

Select filmography

• The Other Side of Innocence (1972) (documentary) - director
• Like a Summer Storm (1972) (TV movie) - director, writer, producer
• What did you do at school today? (1974) (documentary short) - director
• Escape from Singapore (1974) (TV movie) - director, writer, producer
• Billy and Percy (1974) (TV movie) - director, writer, producer
• They Don't Clap Losers (1975) (TV movie) - director, writer, producer
• The Picture Show Man (1977) - director
• The Sound of Love (1978) (TV movie) - director, writer
• A Single Life (1986) (TV movie)
• The Dismissal (1983) (TV miniseries) - director
• The Great Gold Swindle (1984) - director
• Special Squad (1984) (TV Series) - director
• Return to Eden (1986) (TV series) - director
• A Single Life (1986) - director, writer
• Alice to Nowhere (1986) (TV miniseries) - director
• Willing and Abel (1987) (TV series) - director
• Mike Willesee's Australians (1988) (TV series) - director episode "Clyde Fenton"
• The Dirtwater Dynasty (1988) (TV miniseries) - director
• Tanamera - Lion of Singapore (1989) (TV miniseries) - director
• Father (1990) - director
• Sky Trackers (1990) (TV movie) - director
• All the Rivers Run 2 (1990) (TV miniseries) - director
• Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992) (TV movie) - director
• The Tommyknockers (1993) (TV miniseries) - director
• Someone Else's Child (1994) (TV movie) - director
• Betrayed by Love (1994) (TV movie) - director
• Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story (1994) (TV movie) - director
• A Child is Missing (1995) (TV movie) - director
• Heart of Fire (1997) (TV movie) - director
• Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (1998) (TV movie) - director

External links

• John Power at IMDb