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
Personal Details
Movies (28)
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self (Archive Material)
2025
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
as Self - (archive)
2024
Faraway Eyes
Thanks (Crew)
2021
Doctor Who: Shada
Script Editor (Writing)
2017
Doctor Who and the Shada Man
Writer (Writing)
2013
A Matter of Time
as (archive footage)
2007
Parrot Fashion
as (archive footage)
2007
Paris in the Springtime
as (archive footage)
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)
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Novel (Writing)
2005
Doctor Who: Shada
Writer (Writing)
2003
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
as Himself
2002
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
as Himself
2001
Rockstar
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
2000
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self
1994
30 Years in the TARDIS
as Himself
1993
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self
1993
Doctor Who: Shada
Writer (Writing)
1992
Hyperland
as Self
1990
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Ocean
1981
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Script Editor (Writing)
1980
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Script Editor (Writing)
1979
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Script Editor (Writing)
1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
Writer (Writing)
1979
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Script Editor (Writing)
1979
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Script Editor (Writing)
1979
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Writer (Writing)
1978
Out of the Trees
Writer (Writing)
1976
TV Shows (11)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Book (Writing)
2016
Dirk Gently
Novel (Writing)
2012
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
Prisoners of Gravity
as Self
1989
Saturday Review
as Self
1984
Wogan
as Self
1982
Doctor Snuggles
Writer (Writing)
1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Pub (uncredited)
1981
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
Omnibus
as Self
1967
Doctor Who
Writer (Writing)
1963