Douglas Adams
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- March 11, 1952, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Died
- May 11, 2001
- Movies
- 24
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
Best-Known Movies
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981
Doctor Who: Shada
2017
Doctor Who: Shada
1992
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
Hyperland
1990
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
Rockstar
2000
Filmography
| 2025 | Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future | Self (Archive Material) |
| 2024 | Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams | Self - (archive) |
| 2007 | A Matter of Time | (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Parrot Fashion | (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Paris in the Springtime | (archive footage) |
| 2005 | 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) |
| 2002 | Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams | Himself |
| 2001 | Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything | Himself |
| 2000 | Rockstar | Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg |
| 1994 | Visions of Heaven and Hell | Self |
| 1993 | 30 Years in the TARDIS | Himself |
| 1993 | The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self |
| 1990 | Hyperland | Self |
| 1981 | The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy | Man in Ocean |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2017 | Doctor Who: Shada | Writer |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Screenplay |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: Shada | Writer |
| 2000 | Rockstar | Director |
| 1992 | Doctor Who: Shada | Writer |
| 1990 | Hyperland | Writer |
| 1981 | The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy | Writer |
| 1979 | Doctor Who: City of Death | Writer |
| 1978 | Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet | Writer |
| 1976 | Out of the Trees | Writer |
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