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Douglas Adams
Writing
Born: March 11, 1952
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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
as Man in Ocean
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'
as Self (archive footage)
Hyperland
as Self
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
as Self (Archive Material)
30 Years in the TARDIS
as Himself
Parrot Fashion
as (archive footage)
A Matter of Time
as (archive footage)
Paris in the Springtime
as (archive footage)
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self
Rockstar
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
