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

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Man in Ocean

Hyperland

Self

30 Years in the TARDIS

Himself

Visions of Heaven and Hell

Self

Parrot Fashion

(archive footage)

Paris in the Springtime

(archive footage)

A Matter of Time

(archive footage)

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)