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Douglas Adams

Mar 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001 (49 years old) in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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

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Monty Python's Flying Circus
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Pub (uncredited)
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Prisoners of Gravity
Self
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Hyperland
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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'
Self (archive footage)
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean
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Saturday Review
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Paris in the Springtime
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Parrot Fashion
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30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself

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