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).
Cult People
(himself)
Mrs. Henderson Presents
(Maharajah)
Mr. Nice
(Mohammed Durrani)
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
(Self)
Tales of Television Centre
(Self)
Doctor Who: Origins
(Self)
Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction"
(Self)
Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS
(Self)
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
Doctor Who Confidential
Corrigan Blake
Death Penalty
(Director)
The Possession of Joel Delaney
(Director)
Copacabana
(Director)
Callie & Son
(Director)
Melody
(Director)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
(Director)
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
(Director)
Switched at Birth
(Director)
The Summer House
(Director)
The Face on the Milk Carton
(Director)
A Touch of Love
(Director)
The Shell Seekers
(Director)
Coming Out of the Ice
(Director)
The Henderson Monster
(Director)
Forbidden Nights
(Director)
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
(Director)
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
(Director)
Murder Between Friends
(Director)
Baby Comes Home
(Director)
Her Best Friend's Husband
(Director)
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
(Director)
Her Best Friend's Husband
(Co-Executive Producer)
She Woke Up
(Director)
A Child's Wish
(Director)
Arch of Triumph
(Director)
Surviving
(Director)
Killer Instinct
(Director)
Those She Left Behind
(Director)
The Winter of Our Discontent
(Director)
A Passage to India
(Director)
Hedda Gabler
(Director)
When the Bough Breaks
(Director)
Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
(Director)
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
(Director)
Daphne Laureola
(Director)
For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story
(Director)
Sixth Happiness
(Director)
Macready's Gala
(Director)
The Connoisseur
(Director)
A Man on Her Back
(Director)
Rust
(Director)
Toggle
(Director)
Fall from Grace
(Director)
And Baby Makes Six
(Director)
Downpayment on Murder
(Director)
Love Letters on Blue Paper
(Director)
Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger
(Director)
Doctor Who
(Director)
Armchair Thriller
(Director)
Edward and Mrs Simpson
(Director)
Compact
(Director)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Director)
Play for Today
(Director)
Black and Blue
(Director)
Notorious Woman
(Director)
BBC Play of the Month
(Director)
Romance
(Director)
Laurence Olivier Presents
(Director)
Princess Daisy
(Director)
The Glittering Prizes
(Director)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
(Director)
Divorce His, Divorce Hers
(Director)
Intimate Contact
(Director)
Shoulder to Shoulder
(Director)