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
2023
2013
- Doctor Who: Gallifrey as Ryoth
2012
- Tales of Television Centre as Self
2010
- Mr. Nice as Mohammed Durrani
2006
2005
- Mrs. Henderson Presents as Maharajah
- Doctor Who Confidential
2002
- Her Best Friend's Husband ... (Director)
1998
- Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story ... (Director)
1997
- Sixth Happiness ... (Director)
- A Child's Wish ... (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
- Those She Left Behind ... (Director)
- The Shell Seekers ... (Director)
1988
- Onassis: The Richest Man in the World ... (Director)
- Killer Instinct ... (Director)
1987
- Downpayment on Murder ... (Director)
- Intimate Contact ... (Director)
1986
- When the Bough Breaks ... (Director)
1985
- Surviving ... (Director)
- Copacabana ... (Director)
1984
- Arch of Triumph ... (Director)
1983
- The Winter of Our Discontent ... (Director)
- Princess Daisy ... (Director)
1982
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last ... (Director)
- Coming Out of the Ice ... (Director)
1981
- Callie & Son ... (Director)
1980
- The Henderson Monster ... (Director)
- Baby Comes Home ... (Director)
- Death Penalty ... (Director)
1979
- And Baby Makes Six ... (Director)
1978
- Daphne Laureola ... (Director)
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson ... (Director)
- Edward and Mrs Simpson ... (Director)
- Armchair Thriller ... (Director)
- Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger ... (Director)
1977
- Romance ... (Director)
1976
- Laurence Olivier Presents ... (Director)
- The Glittering Prizes ... (Director)
- Love Letters on Blue Paper ... (Director)
1975
- Chips with Everything ... (Director)
1974
- Notorious Woman ... (Director)
- Shoulder to Shoulder ... (Director)
1973
- Rust ... (Director)
- Black and Blue ... (Director)
- Divorce His, Divorce Hers ... (Director)
1972
- The Possession of Joel Delaney ... (Director)
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives ... (Director)
- Hedda Gabler ... (Director)
1971
- Melody ... (Director)
1970
- Play for Today ... (Director)
- Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx ... (Director)
1969
- A Touch of Love ... (Director)
1968
- Toggle ... (Director)
1966
- Ella ... (Director)
- A Man on Her Back ... (Director)
- Macready's Gala ... (Director)
- The Connoisseur ... (Director)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month ... (Director)
- A Passage to India ... (Director)
- Londoners ... (Director)
1964
- Doctor Who: Marco Polo ... (Director)
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Director)
- Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child ... (Director)
1962
- Compact ... (Director)
- Corrigan Blake
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame ... (Director)