Max Varnel

Max Varnel
Born	Max Le Bozec March 21, 1925 Paris, France
Died	January 15, 1996(1996-01-15) (aged 70) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Television director

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 film producer/director Marcel Varnel. He began his career in 1951 as the assistant director of The Box and continued in this capacity for The Card, Devil Girl from Mars, and The Cockleshell Heroes, among others. His sole directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including Top Floor Girl, Web of Suspicion, The Child and the Killer, Crash Drive, Moment of Indiscretion, A Woman Possessed, and Mrs. Gibbons' Boys.

Varnel's television credits include The Vise, Interpol Calling, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Softly Softly, and The Troubleshooters in the UK, and The Evil Touch, Glenview High, The Young Doctors, and Neighbours in Australia, where he emigrated in the early 1970s.

Varnel died of a heart attack in Sydney at the age of 70.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• Enter Inspector Duval (1961)
• Return of a Stranger (1961)
• Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962)

External links

• Max Varnel at the Internet Movie Database
• Max Varnel at the British Film Institute's Screenonline

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Name	Varnel, Max
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Date of birth	March 21, 1925
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	January 15, 1996
Place of death	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia