Directing
Community Rating
5.8
TMDB estimate
Born
March 21, 1925
Died
January 15, 1996 (age 70)
Born in
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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.

The Evil Touch
as Director
1973

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
as Director
1968

The Rivals
as Director
1963

The Silent Invasion
as Director
1962

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
as Director, Writer
1962

Z-Cars
as Director
1962

Part-Time Wife
as Director
1961

Fate Takes a Hand
as Director
1961
A Question of Suspense
as Director
1961
Enter Inspector Duval
as Director
1961

Murder in Eden
as Director
1961

Return of a Stranger
as Director
1961
Sentenced for Life
as Director
1960
A Taste of Money
as Director
1960
Top Floor Girl
as Director
1959
Crash Drive
as Director
1959

Interpol Calling
as Director
1959
No Safety Ahead
as Director
1959

Web of Suspicion
as Director
1959

The Child and the Killer
as Director
1959