Douglas Adams
Writing
1952-03-11 · 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
Filmography
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025 · Movie
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024 · Movie
Faraway Eyes
2021 · Movie
Doctor Who: Shada
2017 · Movie
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2016 · Series
Dirk Gently
2012 · Series
Parrot Fashion
2007 · Movie
A Matter of Time
2007 · Movie
Paris in the Springtime
2005 · Movie
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 · Movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Movie
Doctor Who: Shada
2003 · Movie
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
2002 · Movie
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
2001 · Movie
Rockstar
2000 · Movie
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994 · Movie
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993 · Movie
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993 · Movie
Doctor Who: Shada
1992 · Movie
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Series
Hyperland
1990 · Movie
Prisoners of Gravity
1989 · Series
Saturday Review
1984 · Series
Wogan
1982 · Series
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981 · Movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981 · Series
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
1980 · Movie
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
1979 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
1979 · Movie
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979 · Movie
Doctor Snuggles
1979 · Series
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
1979 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978 · Movie
Out of the Trees
1976 · Movie
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
Open Door
Series