Douglas Adams
Writing
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
2025Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self (Archive Material)
2024Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Self - (archive)
2007A Matter of Time
(archive footage)
2007Parrot Fashion
(archive footage)
2005Don'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)
2005Paris in the Springtime
(archive footage)
2002Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Himself
2000Rockstar
Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
1994Visions of Heaven and Hell
Self
199330 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
1993The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
1990Hyperland
Self
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean
