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.

Directed

1. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968) — Director
2. Return of a Stranger (1961) — Director
3. The Silent Invasion (1962) — Director
4. Z-Cars (1962) — Director
5. A Question of Suspense (1961) — Director
6. Fate Takes a Hand (1961) — Director
7. The Great Van Robbery (1959) — Director
8. Murder in Eden (1961) — Director
9. Interpol Calling (1959) — Director
10. A Woman Possessed (1958) — Director
11. Part-Time Wife (1961) — Director
12. The Evil Touch (1973) — Director
13. Moment of Indiscretion (1958) — Director
14. The Rivals (1963) — Director
15. Sentenced for Life (1960) — Director
16. A Taste of Money (1960) — Director
17. The Child and the Killer (1959) — Director
18. Links of Justice (1958) — Director
19. Crash Drive (1959) — Director
20. Enter Inspector Duval (1961) — Director
21. No Safety Ahead (1959) — Director
22. Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962) — Director
23. Top Floor Girl (1959) — Director
24. Web of Suspicion (1959) — Director
25. McManus MPB (1976) — Director