Full Name Max Le Bozec Name Max Varnel | Role Film director Parents Marcel Varnel | |
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Born March 21, 1925 Paris, France Occupation Film and television director Died January 15, 1996, Sydney, Australia Movies Woman Possessed, Part‑Time Wife, The Great Van Robbery, Return of a Stranger, Crash Drive Similar People Brian Clemens, Marcel Varnel, Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Lionel Jeffries | ||
Max Varnel (1925–1996) was a French-born 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 the assistant director of The Magic Box (1951) and continued in this capacity for The Card (1952), Devil Girl from Mars (1954), and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), among others. His directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including Moment of Indiscretion, A Woman Possessed (both 1958), Top Floor Girl, Web of Suspicion, The Child and the Killer, and Crash Drive (all 1959).
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.