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).

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2025Richard Burton: Wild Genius — Self
• 2023Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals — Self
• 2023Waris Hussein in Conversation — Self
• Remembers… — Self
• 2012Tales of Television Centre — Self
• 2006Doctor Who: Origins — Self
• 2006Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS — Self
• 2006Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction' — Self
• 1989Cult People — himself