Biography
Max Varnel (21 March 1925 – 15 January 1996) was a French-born Australian film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia. Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of the film director Marcel Varnel. He began his career as an assistant director of The Magic Box (1951) and continued in this rol for The Card (1952), Devil Girl from Mars (1954), and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), among others. His directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including Moment of Indiscretion, A Woman Possessed (both 1958), Top Floor Girl, Web of Suspicion, The Child and the Killer, and Crash Drive (all 1959).
Varnel's television credits include The Vise, The Cheaters, Softly Softly, and The Troubleshooters in the UK, and Skippy, Glenview High, The Young Doctors, and Neighbours in Australia, where he emigrated in the late 1960s.
Varnel died of a heart attack in Sydney at the age of 70.
Filmography
all 26
Director 25
Movies 22
TV Shows 4
Producer 1
The Evil Touch (1973)
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968)
The Rivals (1963)
The Silent Invasion (1962)
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962)
Z-Cars (1962)
Part-Time Wife (1961)
Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
A Question of Suspense (1961)
Enter Inspector Duval (1961)
Murder in Eden (1961)
Return of a Stranger (1961)
A Taste of Money (1960)
Sentenced for Life (1960)
Crash Drive (1959)
Interpol Calling (1959)
The Child and the Killer (1959)
The Great Van Robbery (1959)
Moment of Indiscretion (1958)
A Woman Possessed (1958)
Interpol (1957)
Odongo (1956)
A Prize of Gold (1955)
Father Brown (1954)
Star of India (1954)
The Magic Box (1952)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1925-03-21
Deathday1996-01-15 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceParis, France
CitizenshipsFrance
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