Name
Douglas Adams
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1952-03-11
Deathday
2001-05-11 (49 years old)
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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
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Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur De...
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Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in...
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An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adven...
- 2002 Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams as Himself
- 1990 Hyperland as Self
- 1981 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy as Man in Ocean
- 2001 Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything as Himself
- 2000 Rockstar as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
- 2005 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)
- 1994 Visions of Heaven and Hell as Self
- 1993 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself
- 2025 Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self (Archive Material)
- 2007 A Matter of Time as (archive footage)
- 2007 Parrot Fashion as (archive footage)
- 2005 Paris in the Springtime as (archive footage)
- 1993 The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2024 Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams as Self - (archive)
- 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 2 episodes )
- 1989 Prisoners of Gravity ( 12 episodes ) as Self
- 1981 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1 episode ) as Man in Pub (uncredited)
- Soon Open Door ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1984 Saturday Review ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 Have I Got News for You ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Wogan ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1981 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1 episode ) as Man in Ocean (uncredited)
- 1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode )
