Douglas Adams
Actor
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
As Director
Filmography
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
as Man in Ocean 1981
Hyperland
as Self 1990
30 Years in the TARDIS
as Himself 1993
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self (Archive Material) 2025
Rockstar
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg 2000
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
as Himself 2002
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
as Himself 2001
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) 2005
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self 1994
A Matter of Time
as (archive footage) 2007
Parrot Fashion
as (archive footage) 2007
Paris in the Springtime
as (archive footage) 2005
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self 1993