Waris Hussein

Birthday: 1938-12-09
Birthplace: Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
Gender: Male

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).

Credits

Year Title
2025-04-17 Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors
2002-03-10 Her Best Friend's Husband
1998-10-12 Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1997-10-04 Sixth Happiness
1997-01-21 A Child's Wish
1995-05-24 The Face on the Milk Carton
1994-06-02 Fall from Grace
1994-01-10 Murder Between Friends
1993-12-21 The Summer House
1993-05-10 For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story
1992-01-19 She Woke Up
1991-04-28 Switched at Birth
1990-04-10 Forbidden Nights
1989-12-03 The Shell Seekers
1989-03-06 Those She Left Behind
1988-11-22 Killer Instinct
1988-05-01 Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1987-01-18 Downpayment on Murder
1986-10-12 When the Bough Breaks
1985-12-03 Copacabana
1985-02-10 Surviving
1984-12-19 Arch of Triumph
1983-12-06 The Winter of Our Discontent
1982-12-31 Coming Out of the Ice
1981-10-13 Callie & Son
1980-10-16 Baby Comes Home
1980-05-27 The Henderson Monster
1980-01-22 Death Penalty
1979-10-22 And Baby Makes Six
1978-11-06 Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-02-21 Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger
1978-01-15 Daphne Laureola
1976-03-02 Love Letters on Blue Paper
1973-09-04 Rust
1972-10-20 Hedda Gabler
1972-07-13 Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972-05-24 The Possession of Joel Delaney
1971-03-28 Melody
1970-06-13 Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1969-09-01 A Touch of Love
1968-01-03 Toggle
1966-05-24 The Connoisseur
1966-03-02 Macready's Gala
1966-01-12 A Man on Her Back
1965-11-16 A Passage to India
1964-04-04 Doctor Who: Marco Polo
1963-11-23 Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child