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.

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