Waris Hussein
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).
As actor 13
Remembers…
2022
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
Mr. Nice
2010
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Cult People
1989
Corrigan Blake
1962
Doctor Who: Origins
2006
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008
Tales of Television Centre
2012
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
2023
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
2006
Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'
2006
On the crew 91
Doctor Who
1963
Play for Today
1970
Great Performances
1971
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Screen Two
1985
The Wednesday Play
1964
ITV Playhouse
1967
Compact
1962
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Sunday-Night Play
1960
Suspense
1962
Boy Meets Girl
1967
Festival
1963
Londoners
1965
The Sunday Drama
1977
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
Princess Daisy
1983
The Newcomers
1965
Switched at Birth
1991
Moonstrike
1963
Notorious Woman
1974
Black and Blue
1973
Romance
1977
Thirteen Against Fate
1966
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
Melody
1971
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
1964
The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
Arch of Triumph
1984
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
Killer Instinct
1988
A Passage to India
1965
The Glittering Prizes
1976
Maggie
1986
Copacabana
1985
Toggle
1968
Armchair Thriller
1978
Supply and Demand
1998
Between the Wars
1973
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
1973
A Touch of Love
1969
Spoiled
1968
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
Daphne Laureola
1978
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988
Sleeping Dog
1967
Intimate Contact
1987
The Henderson Monster
1980
Murder Between Friends
1994
Callie & Son
1981
Days in the Trees
1967
Ella
1966
She Woke Up
1992
The Face on the Milk Carton
1995
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
Downpayment on Murder
1987
Coming Out of the Ice
1982
Fall from Grace
1994
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
1963
Surviving
1985
Her Best Friend's Husband
2002
Divorce His - Divorce Hers
1973
The Shell Seekers
1989
A Child's Wish
1997
Forbidden Nights
1990
The Devil a Monk Would Be
1967
Sixth Happiness
1997
When the Bough Breaks
1986
The Winter of Our Discontent
1983
Baby Comes Home
1980
For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story
1993
Death Penalty
1980
Death of a Teddy Bear
1967
Hedda Gabler
1972
Chips with Everything
1975
Those She Left Behind
1989
Romance: Three Weeks
1977
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
1964
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998
Macready's Gala
1966
The Connoisseur
1966
And Baby Makes Six
1979
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976
Rust
1973
A Man on Her Back
1966
Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger
1978