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Douglas Adams

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: Writing

Born: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 1952-03-11

Died: 2001-05-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy	Man in Ocean	72
2	1990	Hyperland	Self	70
3	1993	The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'	Self	0
4	1993	30 Years in the TARDIS	Himself	75
5	1994	Visions of Heaven and Hell	Self	0
6	2000	Rockstar	Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg	30
7	2001	Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything	Himself	0
8	2002	Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams	Himself	80
9	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'	Self (archive footage)	0
10	2005	Paris in the Springtime	(archive footage)	0
11	2007	A Matter of Time	(archive footage)	0
12	2007	Parrot Fashion	(archive footage)	0
13	2025	Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future	Self (Archive Material)	83

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Omnibus	Self	72
2	1969	Monty Python's Flying Circus		83
3	1981	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Man in Pub (uncredited)	81
4	1981	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Man in Ocean (uncredited)	81
5	1982	Wogan	Self	45
6	1984	Saturday Review	Self	0
7	1989	Prisoners of Gravity	Self	57
8		Open Door	Self	0
9	1990	Have I Got News for You	Self	71