Writing
Douglas Adams
Birth Date
March 11, 1952
Death Date
May 11, 2001
(passed away at 49)
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Popularity
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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
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Have I Got News for You
Self
1990 • 1 episode
Wogan
Self
1982 • 1 episode
Omnibus
Self
1967 • 1 episode
Prisoners of Gravity
Self
1989 • 12 episodes
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 • 2 episodes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Pub (uncredited)
1981 • 1 episode
Hyperland
Self
1990
Saturday Review
Self
1984 • 1 episode
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'
Self (archive footage)
2005
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean
1981
30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
1993
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Self
1994
Parrot Fashion
(archive footage)
2007
Paris in the Springtime
(archive footage)
2005
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self (Archive Material)
2025
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Himself
2002
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
1993
Rockstar
Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
2000
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Self - (archive)
2024
Open Door
Self
— • 1 episode