Douglas Adams
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
Known for
![Faraway Eyes](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/oimtxIPFzx692Ensp0xtwUhCvht.jpg)
Faraway Eyes
![Doctor Who: Shada](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fnynoiW4QUga1IlBcPAAR1I7N7h.jpg)
Doctor Who: Shada
![Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/q8oMpXPEAUJJ0KztsRs5K51T2lo.jpg)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
![Dirk Gently](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/eEQwT6SUgKfJn5yrh2MxBhCDP91.jpg)
Dirk Gently
![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'](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pu5tUTZf258sYGTbbU0a5WNjey0.jpg)
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'
![The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yr9A3KGQlxBh3yW0cmglsr8aMIz.jpg)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
![Doctor Who: Shada](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/QwT1Ry77eNvFBCRPPG8pXYmDfa.jpg)
Doctor Who: Shada
![Rockstar](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ly7AbdNw0hPVJTTHdWqVr4d2NBl.jpg)
Rockstar
![Doctor Who: Shada](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hDlDtejQEwcBWoeSw2xPGWVTfOE.jpg)
Doctor Who: Shada
![Have I Got News for You](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6lCoUAqA5CEwONQ4QewPxZFwpyJ.jpg)
Have I Got News for You
![Hyperland](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7HwOIYR9p4mxDutsNAzMTBHBV0U.jpg)
Hyperland
![Prisoners of Gravity](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iYgDca5h0hQm8hFuLWivTeomET2.jpg)
Prisoners of Gravity
![Wogan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7NNaUmZWzJsqMvDNu2WB0HsVmvu.jpg)
Wogan
![Doctor Snuggles](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tPPycrOUzvBdwTamPasTllCksfb.jpg)
Doctor Snuggles
![The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/paOaEgnRu6eWraEwrpaE4yggpj5.jpg)
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
![The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yKiH7IIbo23uA72MmY318mXorjw.jpg)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
![Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/b5COZCxwFWG8iqwRgFnbsLC3OBF.jpg)
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
![Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nIiOzcAb8U5fCS57zf3uF7qk539.jpg)
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
![Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5zl4yXJukh9NEM5l1laTefStROI.jpg)
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
![Doctor Who: City of Death](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tOul6HjgM1hFCgdoFAFWIGC89A0.jpg)
Doctor Who: City of Death
![Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/82WgK1GyZnyuUSrcSppiPhi15F0.jpg)
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
![Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ulRFiMYDTnluC2lGWWefcfhDuTJ.jpg)
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
![Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/plRhkrZlc4a0e1UHeOrgOIPiQc0.jpg)
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
![Out of the Trees](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/r7yIFaRpaLOlTqdqEMBdWngvGhA.jpg)
Out of the Trees
![Monty Python's Flying Circus](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/p91aop04lAeAklz32RXAMEWftQh.jpg)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
![Doctor Who](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xinqAmYrZ1TEwowcQhgTkZVtVE0.jpg)
Doctor Who