Douglas Adams
Birthday
1952/03/11
Day of death
2001/05/11 (49 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also know as
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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
Acting
(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)
(2021) The Hitchhiker's Guide To Douglas Adams
as Self (archive footage)
(1969) Monty Python's Flying Circus
as ---
(1989) Prisoners of Gravity
as Self
(1981) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Pub (uncredited)
Open Door
as Self
(1984) Saturday Review
as Self
(1990) Have I Got News for You
as Self
(1982) Wogan
as Self
(1981) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Ocean (uncredited)
(1967) Omnibus
as Self