Waris Hussein
Known for: Directing
Born: December 9, 1938
Place of birth: Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
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).
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Filmography
65 movies · 39 TV shows, newest first
7.5
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
4.7
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
2023
7.0
Remembers…
2022
8.0
Tales of Television Centre
2012
6.1
Mr. Nice
2010
NR
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
2008
8.5
Doctor Who: Origins
2006
7.0
Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'
2006
8.0
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
2006
6.7
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
5.1
Her Best Friend's Husband
20028.0
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998
10.0
Supply and Demand
1998
4.8
Sixth Happiness
1997
6.3
A Child's Wish
1997
6.5
The Face on the Milk Carton
1995
4.0
Fall from Grace
1994
10.0
Murder Between Friends
1994
6.0
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
6.3
For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story
1993
5.7
She Woke Up
1992
7.0
Switched at Birth
1991
6.3
Forbidden Nights
1990
6.5
The Shell Seekers
1989
6.7
Those She Left Behind
1989
7.0
Cult People
1989
6.2
Killer Instinct
1988
6.6
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988
4.3
Intimate Contact
1987
6.3
Downpayment on Murder
1987
6.4
When the Bough Breaks
1986
NR
Maggie
1986
7.2
Copacabana
1985
5.0
Surviving
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
5.2
Arch of Triumph
1984
5.3
The Winter of Our Discontent
1983
7.4
Princess Daisy
1983
6.8
Coming Out of the Ice
1982
5.8
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
6.7
Callie & Son
1981
NR
Baby Comes Home
1980
6.0
The Henderson Monster
1980
8.0
Death Penalty
1980
10.0
And Baby Makes Six
1979
6.8
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
10.0
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978NR
Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger
1978
4.2
Armchair Thriller
1978
7.5
Daphne Laureola
19785.0
The Sunday Drama
1977NR
Romance: Three Weeks
1977NR
Romance
1977
7.0
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
8.0
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976
7.3
The Glittering Prizes
1976
8.0
Chips with Everything
1975
6.5
Notorious Woman
1974
6.5
Shoulder to Shoulder
1974NR
Rust
19736.5
Black and Blue
19739.0
Between the Wars
1973
6.7
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
1973
NR
Divorce His - Divorce Hers
19738.0
Hedda Gabler
1972
5.8
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
5.6
The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
7.1
Melody
1971
6.1
Great Performances
1971
6.6
Play for Today
1970
5.1
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970
6.6
A Touch of Love
1969NR
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
NR
Spoiled
196810.0
Toggle
1968NR
The Devil a Monk Would Be
1967NR
Sleeping Dog
1967
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
NR
Boy Meets Girl
1967NR
Days in the Trees
1967NR
Death of a Teddy Bear
1967
10.0
Thirteen Against Fate
1966
10.0
The Connoisseur
19669.0
Ella
1966
7.0
Macready's Gala
1966
7.0
A Man on Her Back
1966
8.0
A Passage to India
1965
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
19656.5
The Newcomers
1965
NR
Londoners
1965
5.2
The Wednesday Play
1964NR
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
1964
7.2
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
1964
7.2
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
1963
7.9
Doctor Who
19638.0
Festival
19637.0
Moonstrike
1963
6.7
Suspense
1962NR
Corrigan Blake
1962
5.0
Compact
1962NR
Sunday-Night Play
1960
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951