
Waris Hussein
personal-info
known-for
Directing
gender
Male
birthday
1938-12-09
place-of-birth
Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
also-known-as
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).