Douglas Adams

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 (22 Appearances)

Open Door

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

Parrot Fashion

A Matter of Time

Paris in the Springtime

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'

Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

Rockstar

Visions of Heaven and Hell

30 Years in the TARDIS

The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Have I Got News for You

Hyperland

Prisoners of Gravity

Saturday Review

Wogan

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Omnibus

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