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Douglas Adams

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Douglas Adams

Mar 11, 1952 – May 11, 200139 titles 27 movies · 12 TV
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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

Born

Mar 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

22

Acting credits

1

Directing

20

Writing

5

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1963 1 title(s)

1967 1 title(s)

1969 1 title(s)

1976 1 title(s)

1978 1 title(s)

1979 5 title(s)

1980 1 title(s)

1981 3 title(s)

1982 1 title(s)

1984 1 title(s)

1989 1 title(s)

1990 2 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1993 2 title(s)

1994 1 title(s)

2000 1 title(s)

2001 1 title(s)

2002 1 title(s)

2003 1 title(s)

2005 3 title(s)

2007 2 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2021 1 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)

2025 1 title(s)

Undated 1 title(s)