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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. [2] He directed early episodes of Doctor Who , including the first serial, An Unearthly Child (1963), [3] and later directed the multiple-award-winning ...
Waris Hussein is a British filmmaker of Indian origin, who started his career with BBC and worked on Doctor Who. He has directed films and TV movies featuring stars like Laurence Olivier, Bette Davis and Joan Plowright.
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- Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
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Waris Hussein is a British film director of Indian origin, who started his career at BBC and worked on Doctor Who and other projects. He is also the son of the late Attia Hussein, a renowned actress and author.
- December 9, 1938
Jan 30, 2024 · Waris Hussein: ‘I am so angry the BBC sold Television Centre. They destroyed the world they had’. The pioneering director on fraternising with Elizabeth Taylor and EM Forster, making the first...
The original director of Doctor Who and the returning showrunner talk about the history and legacy of the sci-fi series. They discuss the first episode, the First Doctor, the magic of the TARDIS and the diversity of the show.
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Learn about Waris Hussein, the first Indian director of BBC Television and the first to win BAFTA and Emmy awards. He has directed films and TV shows in the UK, USA and India, with stars like Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley MacLaine.
Jan 30, 2018 · Waris Hussein has been a leading light in film and television since the early 1960s, and will probably be most familiar to our readers as the very first, and very influential, director of...