Douglas Adams
- Writing
- March 11, 1952 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- May 11, 2001
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
Filmography
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future · Self
- Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams · Self
- Faraway Eyes · Thanks
- Doctor Who: Shada · Script Editor, Writer
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency · Novel
- Dirk Gently · Novel, Creator
- A Matter of Time · (archive footage)
- Parrot Fashion · (archive footage), Thanks
- Paris in the Springtime · (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' · Self
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Novel, Screenplay
- Doctor Who: Shada · Writer
- Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams · Self
- Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything · Self
- Rockstar · Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg, Director
- Visions of Heaven and Hell · Self
- 30 Years in the TARDIS · Self
- The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' · Self
- Doctor Who: Shada · Writer, Script Editor
- Have I Got News for You · Self
- Hyperland · Self, Writer
- Prisoners of Gravity · Self
- Saturday Review · Self
- Wogan · Self
- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy · Man in Ocean, Writer
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Man in Pub (uncredited), Man in Ocean (uncredited)
- Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: City of Death · Writer, Script Editor
- Doctor Snuggles · Writer
- Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet · Writer
- The South Bank Show
- Out of the Trees · Writer
- Monty Python's Flying Circus · Writer
- Omnibus · Self
- Doctor Who · Writer, Script Editor
- Open Door · Self