Douglas Adams
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- March 11, 1952
- Place of birth
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Died
- May 11, 2001
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
Movies with Douglas Adams
- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy 1981 · ★ 7.3
- Hyperland 1990 · ★ 7.0
- 30 Years in the TARDIS 1993 · ★ 7.9
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future 2025 · ★ 8.0
- Rockstar 2000 · ★ 5.3
- Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams 2002 · ★ 8.0
- Visions of Heaven and Hell 1994 · ★ 9.0
- The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' 1993 · ★ 10.0
- Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything 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' 2005
- A Matter of Time 2007
- Parrot Fashion 2007
- Paris in the Springtime 2005
- Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams 2024
Movies directed by Douglas Adams
- Rockstar 2000 · ★ 5.3