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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 ...
- 1960–present
- Clifton College
Waris Hussein is a British-Indian director, producer and actor 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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- Director, Producer, Actor
- Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
- Waris Hussein
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...
Waris Hussein is a British film director who started his career with BBC and worked on Doctor Who. He was born in India and moved to England with his mother, a Shakespeare translator and actress.
- December 9, 1938
Learn about the life and career of Waris Hussein, the first Indian director of Indian origin to work for the BBC and the first to direct a play at the National Theatre. He has directed films, TV serials, and theatre productions with some of the greatest actors and actresses of the world, and has won multiple awards and acclaim.
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The original director and current showrunner of Doctor Who talk about the power of the first episode, An Unearthly Child, working with the First Doctor, William Hartnell, and the show's legacy. They also discuss their personal journeys, their challenges, and their views on the present and the future of the sci-fi series.
Aug 8, 2023 · Over the years, Radio Times has published some excellent Doctor Who archive material, and that tradition is maintained in this anniversary year with extracts being made available online from the journals of Waris Hussein, the programme’s first director and one of the key figures in steering it through its early months.