Max Varnel
Directing
- Born
- March 21, 1925 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Died
- January 15, 1996 (age 70)
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)
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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
Father Brown
June 8, 1954
The Magic Box
January 1, 1952
Interpol
April 2, 1957
A Prize of Gold
October 14, 1955
Star of India
January 2, 1954
Return of a Stranger
January 1, 1961
The Silent Invasion
December 1, 1962
Rough Shoot
March 30, 1953
Fate Takes a Hand
October 12, 1961
The Great Van Robbery
January 16, 1959
Murder in Eden
April 7, 1961
A Woman Possessed
September 14, 1958
Behind the camera28
- 1976McManus MPB Director
- 1963The Rivals Director
- 1962The Silent Invasion Director
- 1962Mrs. Gibbons' Boys Director, Writer
- 1961Part-Time Wife Director
- 1961Fate Takes a Hand Director
- 1961A Question of Suspense Director
- 1961Enter Inspector Duval Director
- 1961Murder in Eden Director
- 1961Return of a Stranger Director