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