Douglas Adams
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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
Credits
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams (2002)
as Himself
Parrot Fashion (2007)
as (archive footage)
Hyperland (1990)
as Self
Rockstar (2000)
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
as Man in Ocean
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)
as Self (archive footage)
30 Years in the TARDIS (1993)
as Himself
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (1993)
as Self
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future (2025)
as Self (Archive Material)
Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994)
as Self
A Matter of Time (2007)
as (archive footage)
Paris in the Springtime (2005)
as (archive footage)
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams (2024)
as Self - (archive)
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything (2001)
as Himself