Waris Hussein
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday9 December 1938 (87 years old)
Place of birthLucknow, United Provinces, British India
Known credits104
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).
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Self
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
2023 · Self
Remembers…
2022 · Self
Tales of Television Centre
2012 · Self
Mr. Nice
2010 · Mohammed Durrani
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008
Doctor Who: Origins
2006 · Self
Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'
2006 · Self
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
2006 · Self
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005 · Maharajah
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Her Best Friend's Husband
2002 · Director
Her Best Friend's Husband
2002 · Co-Executive Producer
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998 · Director
Supply and Demand
1998 · Director
Sixth Happiness
1997 · Director
A Child's Wish
1997 · Director
The Face on the Milk Carton
1995 · Director
Fall from Grace
1994 · Director
Murder Between Friends
1994 · Director
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993 · Director
For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story
1993 · Director
She Woke Up
1992 · Director
Switched at Birth
1991 · Director
Forbidden Nights
1990 · Director
The Shell Seekers
1989 · Director
Those She Left Behind
1989 · Director
Cult People
1989 · himself
Killer Instinct
1988 · Director
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988 · Director
Intimate Contact
1987 · Director
Downpayment on Murder
1987 · Director
When the Bough Breaks
1986 · Director
Maggie
1986 · Director
Copacabana
1985 · Director
Surviving
1985 · Director
Screen Two
1985 · Director
Arch of Triumph
1984 · Director
The Winter of Our Discontent
1983 · Director
Princess Daisy
1983 · Director
Coming Out of the Ice
1982 · Director
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · Director
Callie & Son
1981 · Director
Baby Comes Home
1980 · Director
The Henderson Monster
1980 · Director
Death Penalty
1980 · Director
And Baby Makes Six
1979 · Director
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978 · Director
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