Max Varnel

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1925-03-21

Deathday 1996-01-15 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Max Varnel

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 role for films including The Card (1952), Devil Girl from Mars (1954) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) His directing credits encompass a series of B movies, including Moment of Indiscretion (1958), A Woman Possessed (1958), Top Floor Girl (1959), Web of Suspicion (1959), The Child and the Killer (1959), and Crash Drive (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.

Known For

Director

1973
The Evil Touch

as Director

1968
1963
The Rivals

as Director

1962
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys

as Director

1962
1962
Z-Cars

as Director

1961
1961
1961
Part-Time Wife

as Director

1961
1961
Fate Takes a Hand

as Director

1961
Murder in Eden

as Director

1960
Sentenced for Life

as Director

1960
A Taste of Money

as Director

1959
Crash Drive

as Director

1959
1959
1959
No Safety Ahead

as Director

1959
Top Floor Girl

as Director

1959
Interpol Calling

as Director

1958
1958
A Woman Possessed

as Director

1957
Interpol

as Second Unit Director

1955
A Prize of Gold

as Assistant Director

1954
Father Brown

as Assistant Director

1954
Star of India

as Assistant Director

1952
The Magic Box

as Assistant Director

Producer

1956
Odongo

as Producer