Douglas Adams

Biography

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

Movies & TV Shows

1. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
2. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981) — Man in Ocean
3. Have I Got News for You (1990) — Self
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) — Man in Pub (uncredited)
5. Omnibus (1967) — Self
6. Prisoners of Gravity (1989) — Self
7. Wogan (1982) — Self
8. Hyperland (1990) — Self
9. 30 Years in the TARDIS (1993) — Himself
10. Rockstar (2000) — Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
11. Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future (2025) — Self (Archive Material)
12. Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams (2002) — Himself
13. Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994) — Self
14. The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (1993) — Self
15. Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything (2001) — Himself
16. 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) — Self (archive footage)
17. A Matter of Time (2007) — (archive footage)
18. Parrot Fashion (2007) — (archive footage)
19. Paris in the Springtime (2005) — (archive footage)
20. Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams (2024) — Self - (archive)
21. Open Door — Self
22. Saturday Review (1984) — Self

Directed

1. Rockstar (2000) — Director