Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthdate
1952-03-11
Day of Death
2001-05-11
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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
Filmography (14)
⭐ 8.3
Role:
Self (Archive Material)
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
⭐ 0
Role:
Self - (archive)
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024
⭐ 0
Role:
(archive footage)
A Matter of Time
2007
⭐ 0
Role:
(archive footage)
Parrot Fashion
2007
⭐ 0
Role:
(archive footage)
Paris in the Springtime
2005
⭐ 0
Role:
Self (archive footage)
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
⭐ 8.0
Role:
Himself
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
2002No Image
⭐ 0
Role:
Himself
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
2001
⭐ 5.3
Role:
Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Rockstar
2000
⭐ 9.0
Role:
Self
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
⭐ 7.9
Role:
Himself
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
⭐ 10.0
Role:
Self
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993
⭐ 7.0
Role:
Self
Hyperland
1990
⭐ 7.2
Role:
Man in Ocean