Name John Power | Role Film director | |
Awards AACTA Award for Best Direction Movies The Tommyknockers, Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan, The Picture Show Man, The Dirtwater Dynasty, Alice to Nowhere Similar People Steve Jacobs, John Meillon, Harold Hopkins, Lawrence D Cohen, Jimmy Smits | ||
John Beresford Power (20 November 1930 – February 2016) was an Australian film and television director, who began his career as a journalist.
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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 AACTA Award for Best Direction for the 1974 TV film Billy and Percy.
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