Douglas Adams

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

Known For

Have I Got News for You

Wogan

Omnibus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Prisoners of Gravity

All Movies (14)

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future2025 · as Self (Archive Material)
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams2024 · as Self - (archive)
A Matter of Time2007 · as (archive footage)
Parrot Fashion2007 · as (archive footage)
Paris in the Springtime2005 · as (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'2005 · as Self (archive footage)
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams2002 · as Himself
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything2001 · as Himself
Rockstar2000 · as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Visions of Heaven and Hell1994 · as Self
30 Years in the TARDIS1993 · as Himself
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'1993 · as Self
Hyperland1990 · as Self
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy1981 · as Man in Ocean

All TV Shows (10)

Have I Got News for You1990 · as Self
Prisoners of Gravity1989 · as Self
Saturday Review1984 · as Self
Wogan1982 · as Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy1981 · as Man in Pub (uncredited)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy1981 · as Man in Ocean (uncredited)
Monty Python's Flying Circus1969
Omnibus1967 · as Self
Omnibus1967
Open Door— · as Self