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Waris Hussein

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
13

Gender
Male

Birthday
December 9, 1938 (87 years old)

Place of Birth
Lucknow, United Provinces, British India

Waris Hussein

Biography

Waris Hussein (né Habibullah; born 9 December 1938) is a British-Indian television and film director. At the beginning of his career, he was employed by the BBC as its youngest drama director. He directed early episodes of Doctor Who, including the first serial, An Unearthly Child (1963), and later directed the multiple-award-winning Thames Television serial Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978).

Known For

Directing

2002Her Best Friend's Husband...Director
1998Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story...Director
1998Supply and Demand...Director
1997Sixth Happiness...Director
1997A Child's Wish...Director
1995The Face on the Milk Carton...Director
1994Fall from Grace...Director
1994Murder Between Friends...Director
1993The Clothes in the Wardrobe...Director
1993For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story...Director
1992She Woke Up...Director
1991Switched at Birth...Director
1990Forbidden Nights...Director
1989The Shell Seekers...Director
1989Those She Left Behind...Director
1988Killer Instinct...Director
1988Onassis: The Richest Man in the World...Director
1987Intimate Contact...Director
1987Downpayment on Murder...Director
1986When the Bough Breaks...Director
1986Maggie...Director
1985Copacabana...Director
1985Surviving...Director
1985Screen Two...Director
1984Arch of Triumph...Director
1983The Winter of Our Discontent...Director
1983Princess Daisy...Director
1982Coming Out of the Ice...Director
1982Little Gloria... Happy at Last...Director
1981Callie & Son...Director
1980Baby Comes Home...Director
1980The Henderson Monster...Director
1980Death Penalty...Director
1979And Baby Makes Six...Director
1978Edward and Mrs Simpson...Director
1978Edward & Mrs. Simpson...Director
1978Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger...Director
1978Armchair Thriller...Director
1978Daphne Laureola...Director
1977The Sunday Drama...Director
1977Romance: Three Weeks...Director
1977Romance...Director
1976Laurence Olivier Presents...Director
1976Love Letters on Blue Paper...Director
1976The Glittering Prizes...Director
1975Chips with Everything...Director
1974Notorious Woman...Director
1974Shoulder to Shoulder...Director
1973Rust...Director
1973Black and Blue...Director
1973Between the Wars...Director
1973Divorce His, Divorce Hers...Director
1972Hedda Gabler...Director
1972Henry VIII and His Six Wives...Director
1972The Possession of Joel Delaney...Director
1971Melody...Director
1971Great Performances...Director
1970Play for Today...Director
1970Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx...Director
1969A Touch of Love...Director
1969W. Somerset Maugham...Director
1968Spoiled...Director
1968Toggle...Director
1967The Devil a Monk Would Be...Director
1967Sleeping Dog...Director
1967ITV Playhouse...Director
1967Boy Meets Girl...Director
1967Days in the Trees...Director
1967Death of a Teddy Bear...Director
1966Thirteen Against Fate...Director
1966The Connoisseur...Director
1966Ella...Director
1966Macready's Gala...Director
1966A Man on Her Back...Director
1965A Passage to India...Director
1965BBC Play of the Month...Director
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre...Director
1965The Newcomers...Director
1965Londoners...Director
1964The Wednesday Play...Director
1964The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling...Director
1964Doctor Who: Marco Polo...Director
1963Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child...Director
1963Doctor Who...Director
1963Festival...Director
1963Moonstrike...Director
1962Suspense...Director
1962Compact...Director
1960Sunday-Night Play...Director
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame...Director

Production

2002Her Best Friend's Husband...Co-Executive Producer

Writing

1967Days in the Trees...Screenplay
1965BBC Play of the Month...Teleplay
1964The Wednesday Play...Writer

Acting

2025Richard Burton: Wild Geniusas Self
2023Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandalsas Self
2022Remembers…as Self
2012Tales of Television Centreas Self
2010Mr. Niceas Mohammed Durrani
2008Verity Lambert: Drama Queenas
2006Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDISas Self
2006Doctor Who: Originsas Self
2006Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'as Self
2005Mrs. Henderson Presentsas Maharajah
2005Doctor Who Confidentialas
1989Cult Peopleas himself
1962Corrigan Blakeas Cholo