Douglas Adams
Born
1952-03-11
Place of birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Died
2001-05-11
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
Monty Python's Flying Circus
TV Series
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean
Have I Got News for You
Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Pub (uncredited)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean (uncredited)
Omnibus
Self
Prisoners of Gravity
Self
Wogan
Self
Hyperland
Self
30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self (Archive Material)
Rockstar
Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Himself
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Himself
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)