Douglas Adams
Gender: Male
Birthday: 1952-03-11 - 2001-05-11
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
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Known For
1990Have I Got News for You
1982Wogan
1978The South Bank Show
1967Omnibus
1967Omnibus
1969Monty Python's Flying Circus
1989Prisoners of Gravity
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Saturday Review
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
2007Parrot Fashion
199330 Years in the TARDIS
2005Don'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'
Open Door
1993The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1990Hyperland
1994