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 Adamsas Himself
- 2001 ·Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everythingas Himself
- 2000 ·Rockstaras Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
- 1990 ·Have I Got News for Youas Self
- 1990 ·Hyperlandas Self
- 1989 ·Prisoners of Gravityas Self
- 1984 ·Saturday Reviewas Self
- 1982 ·Woganas Self
- 1981 ·The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxyas Man in Ocean
- 1981 ·The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyas Man in Pub (uncredited)
- 1969 ·Monty Python's Flying Circusas
- Future ·Open Dooras Self