John Beresford Power (20 November 1930 – February 2016) was an Australian film and television director, who began his career as a journalist.
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.
[1] Power won the AFI Award for Best Direction for the 1974 TV docudrama Billy and Percy.