John Power

John Power was born on 20 November 1930 in Maitland. A trainee journalist at the Maitland Mercury, he became a reporter in Sydney, then a political journalist in Canberra in the mid-fifties. He then moved to television, where he produced current-affairs magazines and directed award-winning documentaries; a drama about a Prime Minister of the Great War won him the AFI directing prize in 1974. He made a few feature films and many telefilms and miniseries, in Australia and then in the United States. He died in February 2016.

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• CinemaThe Picture Show ManJohn Power · 1977Cinema