Max Varnel
Born: 1925-03-21 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Died: 1996-01-15
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
1973
- The Evil Touch ... (Director)
1968
- Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ... (Director)
1963
- The Rivals ... (Director)
1962
- Z-Cars ... (Director)
- The Silent Invasion ... (Director)
- Mrs. Gibbons' Boys ... (Director)
1961
- Fate Takes a Hand ... (Director)
- Part-Time Wife ... (Director)
- Return of a Stranger ... (Director)
- A Question of Suspense ... (Director)
- Enter Inspector Duval ... (Director)
- Murder in Eden ... (Director)
1960
- Sentenced for Life ... (Director)
- A Taste of Money ... (Director)
1959
- Interpol Calling ... (Director)
- The Child and the Killer ... (Director)
- The Great Van Robbery ... (Director)
- Top Floor Girl ... (Director)
- Crash Drive ... (Director)
- Web of Suspicion ... (Director)
- No Safety Ahead ... (Director)
1958
- Links of Justice ... (Director)
- Moment of Indiscretion ... (Director)
- A Woman Possessed ... (Director)
1957
- Interpol ... (Second Unit Director)
1956
- Odongo ... (Producer)
1955
- A Prize of Gold ... (Assistant Director)
1954
- Father Brown ... (Assistant Director)
- Star of India ... (Assistant Director)
1953
- Rough Shoot ... (Assistant Director)
1952
- The Magic Box ... (Assistant Director)