Douglas Adams
March 11, 1952 (72 years old) in 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
Known For
Credits
- 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' as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams as Himself
- 2001 · Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything as Himself
- 2000 · Rockstar as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1990 · Hyperland as Self
- 1989 · Prisoners of Gravity as Self
- 1984 · Saturday Review as Self
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1981 · The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy as Man in Ocean
- 1981 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Man in Pub (uncredited)
- 1969 · Monty Python's Flying Circus as
- Future · Open Door as Self