Waris Hussein
Born: 1938-12-09 in Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
Known For: Directing
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).
Filmography
2025
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius as Self
2023
2022
- Remembers… as Self
2012
- Tales of Television Centre as Self
2010
- Mr. Nice as Mohammed Durrani
2006
2005
- Doctor Who Confidential
- Mrs. Henderson Presents as Maharajah
2002
- Her Best Friend's Husband ... (Director)
1998
- Supply and Demand ... (Director)
- Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story ... (Director)
1997
- A Child's Wish ... (Director)
- Sixth Happiness ... (Director)
1995
- The Face on the Milk Carton ... (Director)
1994
- Fall from Grace ... (Director)
- Murder Between Friends ... (Director)
1993
- The Clothes in the Wardrobe ... (Director)
- For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story ... (Director)
1992
- She Woke Up ... (Director)
1991
- Switched at Birth ... (Director)
1990
- Forbidden Nights ... (Director)
1989
- Cult People as himself
- The Shell Seekers ... (Director)
- Those She Left Behind ... (Director)
1988
- Onassis: The Richest Man in the World ... (Director)
- Killer Instinct ... (Director)
1987
- Intimate Contact ... (Director)
- Downpayment on Murder ... (Director)
1986
- Maggie ... (Director)
- When the Bough Breaks ... (Director)
1985
- Screen Two ... (Director)
- Copacabana ... (Director)
- Surviving ... (Director)
1984
- Arch of Triumph ... (Director)
1983
- Princess Daisy ... (Director)
- The Winter of Our Discontent ... (Director)
1982
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last ... (Director)
- Coming Out of the Ice ... (Director)
1981
- Callie & Son ... (Director)
1980
- The Henderson Monster ... (Director)
- Death Penalty ... (Director)
- Baby Comes Home ... (Director)
1979
- And Baby Makes Six ... (Director)
1978
- Armchair Thriller ... (Director)
- Edward and Mrs Simpson ... (Director)
- Daphne Laureola ... (Director)
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson ... (Director)
- Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger ... (Director)
1977
- The Sunday Drama ... (Director)
- Romance ... (Director)
- Romance: Three Weeks ... (Director)
1976
- Laurence Olivier Presents ... (Director)
- The Glittering Prizes ... (Director)
- Love Letters on Blue Paper ... (Director)
1975
- Chips with Everything ... (Director)
1974
- Shoulder to Shoulder ... (Director)
- Notorious Woman ... (Director)
1973
- Black and Blue ... (Director)
- Between the Wars ... (Director)
- Divorce His, Divorce Hers ... (Director)
- Rust ... (Director)
1972
- Hedda Gabler ... (Director)
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives ... (Director)
- The Possession of Joel Delaney ... (Director)
1971
- Great Performances ... (Director)
- Melody ... (Director)
1970
- Play for Today ... (Director)
- Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx ... (Director)
1969
- W. Somerset Maugham ... (Director)
- A Touch of Love ... (Director)
1967
- ITV Playhouse ... (Director)
- Boy Meets Girl ... (Director)
- Sleeping Dog ... (Director)
- The Devil a Monk Would Be ... (Director)
- Death of a Teddy Bear ... (Director)
- Days in the Trees ... (Director)
1966
- Ella ... (Director)
- Thirteen Against Fate ... (Director)
- Macready's Gala ... (Director)
- A Man on Her Back ... (Director)
- The Connoisseur ... (Director)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month ... (Director)
- Thirty-Minute Theatre ... (Director)
- Londoners ... (Director)
- The Newcomers ... (Director)
- A Passage to India ... (Director)
1964
- The Wednesday Play ... (Director)
- The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: Marco Polo ... (Director)
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Director)
- Festival ... (Director)
- Moonstrike ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child ... (Director)
1962
- Compact ... (Director)
- Suspense ... (Director)
- Corrigan Blake as Cholo
1960
- Sunday-Night Play ... (Director)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame ... (Director)