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Douglas Adams
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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 star…
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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
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2025
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Movie Self (Archive Material)
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2024
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Movie Self - (archive)
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2021
Faraway Eyes
Movie Thanks
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2017
Doctor Who: Shada
Movie Script Editor
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2016
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
TV show Book
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2012
Dirk Gently
TV show Novel
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2007
Parrot Fashion
Movie (archive footage)
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2007
A Matter of Time
Movie (archive footage)
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2005
Paris in the Springtime
Movie (archive footage)
- 2005
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2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movie Novel
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2003
Doctor Who: Shada
Movie Writer
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2002
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Movie Himself
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2001
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Movie Himself
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2000
Rockstar
Movie Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
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1994
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Movie Self
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1993
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie Himself
- 1993
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1992
Doctor Who: Shada
Movie Writer
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1990
Have I Got News for You
TV show Self
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1990
Hyperland
Movie Self
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1989
Prisoners of Gravity
TV show Self
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1984
Saturday Review
TV show Self
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1982
Wogan
TV show Self
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1981
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Movie Man in Ocean
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1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
TV show Man in Pub (uncredited)
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1980
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Movie Script Editor
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1979
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Movie Script Editor
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1979
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Movie Script Editor
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1979
Doctor Who: City of Death
Movie Writer
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1979
Doctor Snuggles
TV show Writer
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1979
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Movie Script Editor
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1979
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Movie Script Editor
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1978
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Movie Writer
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1976
Out of the Trees
Movie Writer
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1969
Monty Python's Flying Circus
TV show
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1967
Omnibus
TV show Self
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1963
Doctor Who
TV show Writer
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Open Door
TV show Self
