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Douglas Adams
Birth Date
March 11, 1952
Death Date
May 11, 2001
(passed away at 49)
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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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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TV Show
Have I Got News for You
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1990 • 1 episode
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Wogan
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1982 • 1 episode
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Omnibus
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1967 • 1 episode
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 • 2 episodes
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Prisoners of Gravity
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1989 • 12 episodes
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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1981 • 1 episode
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Saturday Review
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1984 • 1 episode
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Parrot Fashion
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2007
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Hyperland
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1990
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean
1981
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Visions of Heaven and Hell
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1994
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Paris in the Springtime
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2005
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30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
1993
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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'
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2005
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Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Himself
2002
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The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
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1993
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Rockstar
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2000
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A Matter of Time
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2007
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Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self (Archive Material)
2025
Movie
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Self - (archive)
2024