Max Varnel
Age: N/A | From: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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Movie Involvements: 22
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
(1968) Director
Z-Cars
(1962) Director
Interpol Calling
(1959) Director
Interpol
(1957) Second Unit Director
Father Brown
(1954) Assistant Director
The Magic Box
(1952) Assistant Director
Star of India
(1954) Assistant Director
The Evil Touch
(1973) DirectorActing
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| 1957 | Second Unit Director | |
| 1955 | Assistant Director | |
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Production
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| 1956 | Producer | |
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