Known For
Writing
Birthday
March 11, 1952
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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
Known For - Movies
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Ocean
Hyperland
as Self
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)
30 Years in the TARDIS
as Himself
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self (Archive Material)
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self
A Matter of Time
as (archive footage)
Rockstar
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Paris in the Springtime
as (archive footage)
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
as Self - (archive)
