Douglas Adams
Writing
Born 1952-03-11
Died 2001-05-11
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
39 credits
Inkpot Award 1
Ditmar Award for Best International Fiction 1
Awards
Won 1 Inkpot Award Award
Inkpot Award 1 won
- 1983 Inkpot Award Won
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1 nominated
- 1983 Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated Life, the Universe and Everything
Ditmar Award for Best International Fiction 1 won
- 1980 Best International Fiction Won The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1 nominated
- 1979 Best Dramatic Presentation Nominated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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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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Filmography
Writing
13 credits
Doctor Who
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Doctor Snuggles
Dirk Gently
Hyperland
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Doctor Who: Shada
Doctor Who: City of Death
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Doctor Who: Shada
Out of the Trees
Doctor Who: Shada
Acting
31 credits
Doctor Who
Have I Got News for You
Wogan
Omnibus
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Prisoners of Gravity
Hyperland
Saturday Review
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Doctor Who: Shada
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Doctor Who: City of Death
Parrot Fashion
Rockstar
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'
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
30 Years in the TARDIS
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Doctor Who: Shada
Paris in the Springtime
A Matter of Time
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Open Door
Other credits
2 credits
Directing
1 credit
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