Douglas Adams
Birthday: 1952-03-11 | Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UKDouglas 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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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2025
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self (Archive Material)
2007
A Matter of Time
as (archive footage)
2007
Parrot Fashion
as (archive footage)
2005
Paris in the Springtime
as (archive footage)
2002
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
as Himself
2001
1994
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self
1990
Hyperland
as Self
