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Max Varnel
Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Born March 21, 1925Died January 15, 1996 (70 years)
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.
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.
Max Varnel Filmography
| 1985 | Neighbours (TV Series) |
| 1980 | Secret Valley (TV Series) |
| 1976 | The Young Doctors (TV Series) |
| 1973 | The Evil Touch (TV Series) |
| 1968 | Skippy (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Softly Softly (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) |
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| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) |
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| 1960 | The Cheaters (1960-62) (TV Series) |
| 1960 | Man from Interpol (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Interpol Calling (TV Series) |
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| 1959 | The Edgar Wallace Mysteries (TV Series) |
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| 1954 | The Vise (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Pickup Alley · as Second Unit Director |
| 1955 | A Prize of Gold · as Assistant Director |
| 1954 | The Detective · as Assistant Director |
| 1954 | Star of India · as Assistant Director |
| 1953 | Shoot First · as Assistant Director |
| 1951 | The Magic Box · as Assistant Director |