Douglas Adams
Writing
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 Fam…
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981
Man in Ocean
Have I Got News for You
1990
Self
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981
Man in Pub (uncredited)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981
Man in Ocean (uncredited)
Omnibus
1967
Self
Prisoners of Gravity
1989
Self
Wogan
1982
Self
Hyperland
1990
Self
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
Himself
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
Self (Archive Material)
Rockstar
2000
Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
2002
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'
2005
Self (archive footage)
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
Self
A Matter of Time
2007
(archive footage)
Parrot Fashion
2007
(archive footage)
Paris in the Springtime
2005
(archive footage)
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993
Self
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024
Self - (archive)