Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television. He moved to the UK with his parents at the age of nine. He was educated at Clifton College and Cambridge University He is particularly remembered for having directed the first ever Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child, in 1963. In 1964 he returned to the series to direct the fourth serial, Marco Polo.

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  • Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television. He moved to the UK with his parents at the age of nine. He was educated at Clifton College and Cambridge University He is particularly remembered for having directed the first ever Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child, in 1963. In 1964 he returned to the series to direct the fourth serial, Marco Polo. He went on to enjoy a successful career directing many productions such as a 1965 BBC television version of A Passage to India; a suffragette movement drama Shoulder to Shoulder (BBC, 1974); the BBC serial Notorious Woman (1974); and the Thames Television serial Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978). The latter two productions saw him working once more with former Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert. He also directed the theatrical motion picture version of Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1973) starring Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling and Donald Pleasance. In 1983 he declined an offer to direct the twentieth anniversary Doctor Who special, The Five Doctors. In the 1990s he directed several television movies in the United States. In 1997 he directed Sixth Happiness, a film whose screenplay was written by Firdaus Kanga, the author of the semi-autobiographical novel Trying to Grow, as well as the main actor.
  • Waris Hussein est un réalisateur et scénariste britannique né le 9 décembre 1938 à Lucknow.
  • ワリス・フセイン（Waris Hussein 1938年12月9日-）は、イギリスを拠点として活躍するテレビ番組・映画のディレクター。
  • Waris Hussein er en indisk regissør, som er mest kjent for sine mange produksjoner for britisk TV. Han flyttet til Storbritannia med sine foreldre da han var ni år gammel fordi faren jobbet som diplomat. Hussein gikk på University of Cambridge hvor han studerte engelsk og drama. Der regisserte han blant annet den første amatøroppsetningen av Arthur Millers A View from the Bridge. Etter Cambridge studerte han scenedesign hos The Slade School of Fine Art i ett år. Han prøvde seg deretter som skuespiller, men fikk sjeldent noen roller på grunn av sitt utenlandske utseende. 21 år gammel forsøkte han seg derfor hos BBC. Han prøvde å komme seg inn på regissørkurset de hadde og etter at en annen student falt fra, kom han inn. Hussein jobbet under kontrakt i seks år hos BBC før han gikk over til å jobbe som frilanser. Han er spesielt husket for å ha regissert den første historien av Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, i 1963. I 1964 regisserte han den fjerde historien, Marco Polo. Han har også regissert mange prestisjetunge produksjoner, som BBCs versjon av A Passage to India, Shoulder to Shoulder og serien Edward and Mrs Simpson for Thames Television. I de to sistnevnte produksjonene jobbet han igjen med tidligere Doctor Who-produsent Verity Lambert. Han regisserte dessuten filmversjonen av Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1973(med Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling og Donald Pleasance. I 1983 avslo han tilbudet om å regissere Doctor Whos jubileumsspesial, The Five Doctors, for 20-årsjubileet. I 1990-årene regisserte han flere TV-filmer i USA.
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  • Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television. He moved to the UK with his parents at the age of nine. He was educated at Clifton College and Cambridge University He is particularly remembered for having directed the first ever Doctor Who serial, An Unearthly Child, in 1963. In 1964 he returned to the series to direct the fourth serial, Marco Polo.
  • Waris Hussein est un réalisateur et scénariste britannique né le 9 décembre 1938 à Lucknow.
  • ワリス・フセイン（Waris Hussein 1938年12月9日-）は、イギリスを拠点として活躍するテレビ番組・映画のディレクター。
  • Waris Hussein er en indisk regissør, som er mest kjent for sine mange produksjoner for britisk TV. Han flyttet til Storbritannia med sine foreldre da han var ni år gammel fordi faren jobbet som diplomat. Hussein gikk på University of Cambridge hvor han studerte engelsk og drama. Der regisserte han blant annet den første amatøroppsetningen av Arthur Millers A View from the Bridge. Etter Cambridge studerte han scenedesign hos The Slade School of Fine Art i ett år.
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  • Waris Hussein
  • Waris Hussein
  • ワリス・フセイン
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