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Endpoint: John Power (Director)



created on: 16/03/2019
by: Lo55o (12504)
 
 

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John Beresford Power (20 November 1930, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia – February 2016, New South Wales, Australia) 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.

Select credits include They Don't Clap Losers (1975), Billy and Percy (1974) and The Picture Show Man (1977).


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

He was married to Priscilla Tambone and Janice (Jan) Kenny.
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Submitted by : Lo55o (12504)
on : 16/03/2019