Max Varnel
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 21, 1925
- Place of birth
- Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Died
- January 15, 1996
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.
Movies directed by Max Varnel
- Return of a Stranger 1961 · ★ 5.5
- The Silent Invasion 1962 · ★ 6.7
- A Question of Suspense 1961 · ★ 6.2
- Fate Takes a Hand 1961 · ★ 6.8
- The Great Van Robbery 1959 · ★ 5.2
- Murder in Eden 1961 · ★ 5.2
- A Woman Possessed 1958 · ★ 7.0
- Part-Time Wife 1961 · ★ 6.3
- The Child and the Killer 1959 · ★ 7.0
- Moment of Indiscretion 1958 · ★ 7.0
- The Rivals 1963 · ★ 6.0
- Sentenced for Life 1960 · ★ 7.5
- A Taste of Money 1960 · ★ 8.0
- Links of Justice 1958 · ★ 9.0
- Crash Drive 1959 · ★ 10.0
- Enter Inspector Duval 1961 · ★ 9.0
- No Safety Ahead 1959 · ★ 9.0
- Mrs. Gibbons' Boys 1962 · ★ 7.0
- Top Floor Girl 1959 · ★ 7.0
- Web of Suspicion 1959 · ★ 8.0
- McManus MPB 1976