Douglas Adams
Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-03-11
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
Also Known For
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Jul 01, 2002
Hyperland
Sep 21, 1990
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Feb 09, 1981
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
May 28, 2001
Rockstar
Jan 01, 2000
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'
Sep 05, 2005
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Jan 31, 1994
30 Years in the TARDIS
Nov 29, 1993
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Mar 20, 2025
A Matter of Time
Sep 24, 2007
Parrot Fashion
Sep 24, 2007
Paris in the Springtime
Nov 07, 2005
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Jan 01, 1993
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Oct 05, 1969
Prisoners of Gravity
Aug 21, 1989
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jan 05, 1981
Open Door
Saturday Review
May 12, 1984
Have I Got News for You
Sep 28, 1990
Wogan
May 04, 1982
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jan 05, 1981
