Max Varnel


Max Varnel was a French-born Australian film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Biography

Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of the film director Marcel Varnel. He began his career as the assistant director of The Magic Box and continued in this capacity for The Card, Devil Girl from Mars, and The Cockleshell Heroes, among others. His directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including Moment of Indiscretion, A Woman Possessed, Top Floor Girl, Web of Suspicion, The Child and the Killer, and Crash Drive.
Varnel's television credits include The Vise, The Cheaters, and Softly Softly, and The Troubleshooters in the UK, and Skippy, Glenview High, The Young Doctors, and Neighbours in Australia, having emigrated in the late 1960s.
Varnel died of a heart attack in Sydney at the age of 70.

Selected filmography