Director

Max Varnel

Directing

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Directed movies: 19Directed series: 4All crew credits: 24

TMDB ID: 188247

IMDb ID: nm0890086

Known for: Directing

Born: March 21, 1925

Died: January 15, 1996

Age: 70

Place of birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1952 - 1973

Years active: 22

Average TMDB rating: 6.4

Wikidata: Q6795333

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Director (17)Assistant Director (5)Second Unit Director (1)Producer (1)

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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.

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