
Douglas Adams
Writer
Born: March 11, 1952 (49 years old)
Died: May 11, 2001
Place of birth: 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
Filmography (17)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969, ★ 8.3)
- Doctor Who: City of Death (1979, ★ 9)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981, ★ 8)
- Hyperland (1990, ★ 7)
- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981, ★ 7.2)
- Omnibus (1967, ★ 7.2)
- Doctor Who (1963, ★ 7.9)
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016, ★ 7.7)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005, ★ 6.7)
- Doctor Who: Shada (1992, ★ 6.7)
- Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (1978, ★ 7)
- Doctor Who: Shada (2017, ★ 7.1)
- Doctor Snuggles (1981, ★ 6.8)
- Dirk Gently (2012, ★ 7)
- Prisoners of Gravity (1989, ★ 5.7)
- Faraway Eyes (2021, ★ 4.8)
- Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks (1979, ★ 5.5)