John Foreman is an Australian musician and television personality.
He wrote the Olympic Flame song, titled "The Flame", for the 2000 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.
He has been a long-time member of Good Morning Australia until retiring from the show in 2004. Since then he has been the musical director on Australian Idol.
In December 2005 he began hosting The Big Night in With John Foreman. The premiere episode featured a classic interview with actor Russell Crowe, as well as interviews with Deborah Conway and Tina Cousins.
John Foreman has also been the conductor for Melbourne's Christmas Eve 'Carols by Candlelight', at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and possibly in future years.
He is currently the conductor for the band on Australian Idol, and helps the contestants to re-create the songs they sing for the contest.
John Foreman (b. 26 July 1925 - d. 20 November 1992) was an American film producer.
Foreman was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In the late 1960s, he and actor Paul Newman founded Newman-Foreman productions. He went on to produce Winning (1969) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He later produced four films in collaboration with director John Huston. His other film credits as producer include , The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The Mackintosh Man (1973), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).
Foreman was nominated twice for the Academy Award for his films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Prizzi's Honor.
He died in Beverly Hills, California.
John Gregory Foreman was born in April 1972 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. John has been interested in music since he was a baby and began learning piano at the age of six. When he was twelve, he won a scholarship to The Newcastle Conservatorium and, by the time he was seventeen, was an associate member of the State Conservatorium of Music. He finished school at Sydney's Conservatorium High School before completing a jazz course at university. After graduating, John became Musical Director of Good Morning Australia, a position he has held for the past twelve years. In 2003, he was also appointed Musical Director of the Australian Idol competitions. John is well known throughout Australia for his musical talents. He also wrote the song, "The Flame", the official theme of the Sydney Olymic Games. John currently divides his time between homes in Melbourne and Sydney. He is single and has no children.
Father of actress Julie Foreman (I).
Father of actress Amanda Foreman (I).
