Douglas Adams
Born: 1952-03-11 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Died: 2001-05-11
Known For: Writing
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
Filmography
2025
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self (Archive Material)
2024
- Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams as Self - (archive)
2021
- Faraway Eyes ... (Thanks)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To Douglas Adams as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Doctor Who: Shada ... (Writer)
2016
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ... (Book)
2013
- Doctor Who and the Shada Man ... (Writer)
2012
- Dirk Gently ... (Novel)
2007
- Parrot Fashion as (archive footage)
- A Matter of Time as (archive footage)
2005
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... (Novel)
- 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)
- Paris in the Springtime as (archive footage)
2003
- Doctor Who: Shada ... (Writer)
2002
- Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams as Himself
2001
2000
- Rockstar as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
1994
- Visions of Heaven and Hell as Self
1993
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself
- The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
1992
- Doctor Who: Shada ... (Writer)
1990
- Have I Got News for You as Self
- Hyperland as Self
1989
- Prisoners of Gravity as Self
1984
- Saturday Review as Self
1982
- Wogan as Self
1981
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Man in Pub (uncredited)
- Doctor Snuggles ... (Writer)
- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy as Man in Ocean
1980
- Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon ... (Script Editor)
1979
- Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: City of Death ... (Writer)
- Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden ... (Script Editor)
1978
- Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet ... (Writer)
1976
- Out of the Trees ... (Writer)
1967
- Omnibus as Self
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Writer)