Douglas Adams
Known For
Writing
Born
1952-03-11 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Died
2001-05-11
Biography
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
Most Known For
Have I Got News for You
as Self
Wogan
as Self
Omnibus
as Self
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Prisoners of Gravity
as Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Pub (uncredited)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Ocean (uncredited)
Parrot Fashion
as (archive footage)
Hyperland
as Self
Saturday Review
as Self
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'
as Self (archive footage)
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Ocean
Paris in the Springtime
as (archive footage)
Open Door
as Self
30 Years in the TARDIS
as Himself
Rockstar
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
A Matter of Time
as (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self (Archive Material)
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self