Douglas Adams
Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
22
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-03-11
Day of death
2001-05-11 (49 years old)
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
Wogan
Have I Got News for You
Omnibus
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Prisoners of Gravity
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hyperland
A Matter of Time
Visions of Heaven and Hell
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'
Saturday Review
Parrot Fashion
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Open Door
30 Years in the TARDIS
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Paris in the Springtime
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Rockstar
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
