Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Person

Douglas Adams

Writer 1952-03-11 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame

Known for

FILMOGRAPHY
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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969 · TV

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

1981 · Man in Ocean

Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You

1990 · Self

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1981 · Man in Pub (uncredited)

Omnibus

Omnibus

1967 · Self

Wogan

Wogan

1982 · Self

The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show

1978 · TV

Prisoners of Gravity

Prisoners of Gravity

1989 · Self

Hyperland

Hyperland

1990 · Self

30 Years in the TARDIS

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993 · Himself

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

2025 · Self (Archive Material)

Rockstar

Rockstar

2000 · Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg

Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams

2002 · Himself

Visions of Heaven and Hell

Visions of Heaven and Hell

1994 · Self

The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

1993 · Self

Parrot Fashion

Parrot Fashion

2007 · (archive footage)

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005 · Self (archive footage)

Paris in the Springtime

Paris in the Springtime

2005 · (archive footage)