Cast & creator
Douglas Adams
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, The South Bank Show
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
36
film credits
21
television credits
25
1963–2025 · acting roles
7.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (57)
Showing 57 of 57 credits
Doctor Who
Writer
1963Doctor Who
Script Editor
1963
The South Bank Show
1978
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990
Wogan
Self
1982
Omnibus
Self
1967Omnibus
1967
Prisoners of Gravity
Self
1989
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Book
2016
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969Monty Python's Flying Circus
Writer
1969
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Pub (uncredited)
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean (uncredited)
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Writer
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Book
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Creator
1981
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Novel
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Screenplay
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Executive Producer
2005
Doctor Snuggles
Writer
1979
Dirk Gently
Novel
2012Dirk Gently
Creator
2012Saturday Review
Self
1984Open Door
Self
Faraway Eyes
Thanks
2021
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Man in Ocean
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Writer
1981
Parrot Fashion
(archive footage)
2007Parrot Fashion
Thanks
2007
Doctor Who: City of Death
Writer
1979Doctor Who: City of Death
Script Editor
1979
Doctor Who: Shada
Writer
2017Doctor Who: Shada
Script Editor
2017
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
Script Editor
1979
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)
2005
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Script Editor
1979
30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
1993
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
Script Editor
1979
Out of the Trees
Writer
1976
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Writer
1978
Hyperland
Self
1990Hyperland
Writer
1990
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Script Editor
1980
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self (Archive Material)
2025
A Matter of Time
(archive footage)
2007
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
Script Editor
1979
Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams
Self - (archive)
2024
Rockstar
Black shoe and blue jeans trouser leg
2000Rockstar
Director
2000
Doctor Who: Shada
Writer
2003
Paris in the Springtime
(archive footage)
2005
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Self
1994
Doctor Who: Shada
Writer
1992Doctor Who: Shada
Script Editor
1992
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
1993
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
Himself
2002Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything
Himself
2001