Douglas Adams
Writing Born Mar 11, 1952 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK 24 credits
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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Full filmography
- Have I Got News for You (1990) as Self
- Wogan (1982) as Self
- Omnibus (1967) as Self
- Omnibus (1967)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) as Man in Pub (uncredited)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) as Man in Ocean (uncredited)
- Prisoners of Gravity (1989) as Self
- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981) as Man in Ocean
- Saturday Review (1984) as Self
- Hyperland (1990) 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' (2005) as Self (archive footage)
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future (2025) as Self (Archive Material)
- 30 Years in the TARDIS (1993) as Himself
- Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994) as Self
- Rockstar (2000) as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
- Parrot Fashion (2007) as (archive footage)
- A Matter of Time (2007) as (archive footage)
- Paris in the Springtime (2005) as (archive footage)
- The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (1993) as Self
- Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams (2024) as Self - (archive)
- Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams (2002) as Himself
- Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything (2001) as Himself
- Open Door as Self