Douglas Adams
Known for: Writing
Born: March 11, 1952
Died: May 11, 2001
Place of birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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
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Filmography
27 movies · 12 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
NR
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024
4.8
Faraway Eyes
2021
7.1
Doctor Who: Shada
2017
7.7
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2016
7.1
Dirk Gently
2012
NR
A Matter of Time
2007
NR
Parrot Fashion
2007
NR
Paris in the Springtime
2005
NR
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
6.7
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
7.3
Doctor Who: Shada
2003
8.0
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
2002NR
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
2001
5.3
Rockstar
2000
9.0
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
7.9
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
10.0
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993
6.7
Doctor Who: Shada
1992
7.2
Have I Got News for You
1990
7.0
Hyperland
1990
5.9
Prisoners of Gravity
1989NR
Saturday Review
1984
5.3
Wogan
1982
7.3
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981
8.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981
4.7
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
1980
6.3
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
1979
6.0
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
1979
9.0
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
6.9
Doctor Snuggles
1979
5.5
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
1979
5.5
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979
7.0
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978
NR
Out of the Trees
1976
8.3
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
7.2
Omnibus
1967
7.9
Doctor Who
1963NR
Open Door
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