Acting credits
19
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Douglas Adams
Writing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
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Movies: 26Series: 10Crew credits: 23
TMDB ID: 52843
IMDb ID: nm0010930
Known for: Writing
Born: March 11, 1952
Died: May 11, 2001
Age: 49
Place of birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1963 - 2025
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 7.19
Wikidata: Q42
Other jobs
Writer (12)Script Editor (5)Novel (2)Thanks (2)Book (1)Director (1)
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
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Douglas Adams.
as Self (Archive Material)
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025 • Movie
as Self - (archive)
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
2024 • Movie
Thanks
Faraway Eyes
2021 • Movie
Writer
Doctor Who: Shada
2017 • Movie
as (archive footage)
A Matter of Time
2007 • Movie
as (archive footage)
Parrot Fashion
2007 • Movie
as (archive footage)
Paris in the Springtime
2005 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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'
2005 • Movie
Novel
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 • Movie
Writer
Doctor Who: Shada
2003 • Movie
as Himself
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
2002 • Movie
as Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
Rockstar
2000 • Movie
as Self
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994 • Movie
as Himself
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993 • Movie
as Self
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993 • Movie
Writer
Doctor Who: Shada
1992 • Movie
as Self
Hyperland
1990 • Movie
as Man in Ocean
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1981 • Movie
Script Editor
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
1980 • Movie
Script Editor
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
1979 • Movie
Script Editor
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
1979 • Movie
Writer
Doctor Who: City of Death
1979 • Movie
Script Editor
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
1979 • Movie
Script Editor
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Douglas Adams.
Book • 18 eps
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2016 • Series
Novel • 3 eps
Dirk Gently
2012 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Have I Got News for You
1990 • Series
as Self • 12 eps
Prisoners of Gravity
1989 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Wogan
1982 • Series
Writer • 2 eps
Doctor Snuggles
1981 • Series
as Man in Pub (uncredited) • 1 eps
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1981 • Series
2 eps
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Omnibus
1967 • Series
Writer • 8 eps
Doctor Who
1963 • Series