Writing
Douglas Adams
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
Filmography
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Film · 2025
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Film · 2024
A Matter of Time
Film · 2007
Parrot Fashion
Film · 2007
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'
Film · 2005
Paris in the Springtime
Film · 2005
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Film · 2002
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Film · 2001
Rockstar
Film · 2000
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Film · 1994
30 Years in the TARDIS
Film · 1993
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Film · 1993
Hyperland
Film · 1990
Have I Got News for You
Series · 1990
Prisoners of Gravity
Series · 1989
Saturday Review
Series · 1984
Wogan
Series · 1982
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Film · 1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Series · 1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Series · 1981
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Series · 1969
Omnibus
Series · 1967
Omnibus
Series · 1967
Open Door
Series