- Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. "Hitchhiker's" began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a towel, a comic book series, a computer game and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death.
- Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman (born September 8 1971) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's Golden Globe winning comedy "The Office", and as Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Since leaving the Central School of Speech and Drama, Freeman has appeared in at least 18 TV shows, 14 theatre productions, and several radio productions.
- Warwick Davis
Warwick Ashley Davis (born February 3, 1970) is an English actor. He is noted for having dwarfism, standing only tall. Davis is probably best known as the title character in "Willow", Wicket W. Warrick in "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi", Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, the title character in "Leprechaun" and its sequels and as Marvin the Paranoid Android in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
- Simon Jones
Simon Jones (born July 27, 1950 in Charlton Park, Wiltshire) is an English actor, most famous for his appearances in the television and radio series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in which he played the lead role of Arthur Dent in 1981. Its author, Douglas Adams, later said that he wrote the part of Arthur Dent with Simon Jones in mind. Jones also appeared in various other TV series, …
- Anna Chancellor
Anna Chancellor (b. 27 April 1965) is a British actress. She is best known for her performance as "Duckface" in "Four Weddings and a Funeral", as Caroline Bingley in the 1995 A&E adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", and as Questular Rontok in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". In 2005, she joined the cast of the popular BBC One television drama series "Spooks" as a new regular character, Juliet Shaw.
- Karey Kirkpatrick
Karey Kirkpatrick is a screenwriter. His films include "Chicken Run" and the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" adaptation. He directed "Over the Hedge" with Tim Johnson. Formerly, he performed in the SAK Comedy Lab improvisational theater in Orlando, FL. He is an alumnus from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- Peter Jones
Peter Jones was an English actor, playwright and broadcaster. He was best known as the voice of The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", for his lead role in the TV sitcom "The Rag Trade", and for his elegant repartee on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Just a Minute" (where he excelled at the amusing one liners, but seldom scored many points).
- John Lloyd
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born September 30 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer.
- Robbie Stamp
Robbie Stamp (born 1960) was the CEO of The Digital Village, a position that came about partly because of his friendship with author Douglas Adams, whose works inspired the site. Stamp was also the executive producer of the movie version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Robbie was a producer of television documentaries when he met Adams. Under his tenure at The Digital Village, the h2g2 project was launched, along with the computer game Starship Titanic.
- Steve Meretzky
Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957) is an American computer game designer, with dozens of titles to his credit. He has been involved in almost every aspect of game development, from design to production to quality assurance and box design. He is best known for creating some of the famous Infocom games in the early 1980s, including collaborating with celebrated author Douglas Adams on the interactive fiction version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", …
- Jay Roach
Jay Roach (born 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American film director and producer whose credits include the "Austin Powers" movies, and the hit comedies "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller. Jay Graduated In 1975 From [Eldorado High School] In Albuquerque New Mexico In 1994 he co-wrote with John Rice and Joe Batteer the film "Blown Away" starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones.
- Joby Talbot
Joby Talbot (born August 25, 1971) is a British composer. Born in Wimbledon, London, Talbot initially studied composition at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College under Robert Saxton. In 1993 Talbot first met Neil Hannon and began arranging and performing with his group The Divine Comedy. One of their tracks, "In Pursuit of Happiness", was used as the theme music for BBC TV's "Tomorrow's World".
- Dirk Maggs
Dirk Maggs is a freelance writer and director working across all media. He is principally known for his work in radio, where he evolved Radio Drama into 'Audio Movies', a near-visual approach combining scripts, layered sound effects, cinematic music and cutting edge technology (he pioneered the use of Dolby Surround in BBC Radio). He was among the first ever nominees for the Directors Guild of Great Britain Outstanding Achievement in Radio Award, …
- Mark Wing-Davey
Son of actors Peter Davey and Anna Wing, Mark Wing-Davey (born November 30, 1948, London, England) went to school at Woolverstone Hall, before studying at Cambridge University where he was a member of the Footlights from 1967 to 1970. He had a featured role in the 1976 mini series,"The Glittering Prizes",. This role was later cited as the reason for being cast in arguably his most memorable role, that of the two-headed Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox, …
- Geoffrey McGivern
Geoffrey McGivern (b. England 1952) is an English actor in film, radio, stage and television. He was born in Balham, South London and grew up in York. There he attended Archbishop Holgate's School, where he was made Head Boy. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was involved in the renowned Footlights society and the Marlowe Society.
- Sandra Dickinson
Sandra Dickinson (born 20 October 1948) is an American actress, born in Washington DC. She has often played the dumb blonde - notably in the St. Bruno TV advertisements in the early 1970s. Her roles include: * Trillian in the television version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"<br />Sandra Dickinson said in an interview in "The Making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that when she heard that she had been suggested for the role of Trillian, …
- David Dixon
David Dixon (October 28, 1947) is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born in Derby, Derbyshire, and brought up there before the family moved to Nottingham in 1959. Dixon's most notable role was in the 1981 BBC TV series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in which he starred as Ford Prefect. He would later rejoin the "Hitchhiker's Guide" by lending his voice to the "Ecological Man" and the "Zirzla Leader" in Fit the Twentieth of the Radio Series, …
- Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh film, television, and stage actor who has starred in such films as "Brazil" and the "Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy".
- Susan Sheridan
Susan Sheridan (born 1947) is a British actress most widely known for her voice work, particularly the roles of Trillian in the radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Princess Eilonwy in the animated film "The Black Cauldron". She has also provided voices for many child characters, including Noddy in the Cosgrove Hall/BBC Television adaptation of Enid Blyton's children's stories, …
- Geoffrey Perkins
Geoffrey Perkins is a comedy producer, writer, and performer, who has been a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. He worked for several years in BBC Radio Light Entertainment, producing such shows as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Along with Angus Deayton, he wrote and performed in "Radio Active", which transferred to television as "KYTV". He later produced "The Uncyclopaedia of Rock" for Capital Radio, …
- Su Elliot
Su Elliot (born 18 December, 1950) is a British actress. She was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England to parents Rosalind Knight and Michael Elliot. Her most recent roles in film include a pub customer in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and a Ministry of Magic witch in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Elliot has appeared in numerous British TV series, including "The Bill", "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", …
- William Franklyn
William Leo Franklyn (22 September 1925 - 31 October 2006) was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973. He also performed on the stage, on film, on televisions, and on radio, taking over from the late Peter Jones as "The Book" (the narrator) in the third, fourth and fifth radio series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
- Bruce Hyman
Bruce Hyman is a radio and TV producer and also a barrister. At Above the Title Productions Hyman produced three new radio series of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in 2003 and 2004, with Helen Chattwell and Dirk Maggs. He also acted as Executive Producer of the BBC Radio 4 programme presented by Clive Anderson called "Unreliable Evidence" until 2006. Hyman has has written scripts for Johnny Vegas, Angus Deayton.
- Neil Hannon
Neil Hannon (born 7 November, 1970) is a singer and songwriter, best known as the creator (in 1989) and frontman of the orchestral pop group, The Divine Comedy. The band's official website even goes so far as to say, "The Divine Comedy is Neil Hannon," and Hannon is quoted in an interview as saying, "The Divine Comedy will always be my band because... I thought of it first!" Hannon was born in Derry in Northern Ireland.
- Nick Webb
Nick Webb (born 1949) is a book editor and author. He approached Douglas Adams and John Lloyd in 1978, to commission the two of them for a novelization of the first radio series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for Pan Books in London. The book eventually was written solely by Adams, after a brief dispute with Lloyd, and was published in 1979. After the successful launch of the first Hitchhiker's novel, Webb left Pan, and, …
- Richard Vernon
Richard Vernon (March 7, 1925 - December 4, 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic roles (for example as Lord Bartelsham in the "Ripping Yarns" episode "Roger of the Raj" and, in a serious mode, as Squire Dale in the BBC radio 4 adaptation of "The Small House at Allington").
- Paul Neil Milne Johnstone
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (c. 1952 -April 2004) was a British poet and schoolmate of science-fiction author Douglas Adams. His student writings were described as pretentious by some of his peers, and Adams made him the butt of a joke in the earliest versions of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Johnstone attended Brentwood School, Essex, with Adams, and the two received awards for English in the same year.
- Ken Campbell
Kenneth Victor Campbell (born December 10 1941 in Ilford, Essex) is an English writer, actor, director and comedian, known for his unconventional work in theatre. He was educated at Chigwell School and then studied drama at RADA before joining Colchester Repertory theatre as an understudy to Warren Mitchell. He soon began writing and directing his own productions, including working with director Lindsay Anderson.
- Jack Stanley
Jack Stanley (born June 4, 1991 in Wimbledon) is an English child actor whose most recent appearance is that of "Lunkwill" in the 2005 film, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Stanley also had a role as "Ryan" in "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London".
- Valentine Dyall
Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908-24 June 1985) was an English character actor, the son of veteran actor Franklin Dyall, who was especially popular as a voice actor. He was known for many years as "The Man in Black", narrator of the BBC Radio horror series "Appointment With Fear". Dyall also made guest appearances in several episodes of "The Goon Show", parodying his familiar radio persona.
- Roy Hudd
Roy Hudd, OBE (b. May 16 1936, Croydon, Surrey) is a British radio and television actor. He is also a playwright, author and music hall singer. He is best known for his very long-running radio series "The News Huddlines" and recently for his role as the undertaker "Archie Shuttleworth" in the ITV1 soap opera "Coronation Street". Hudd has written several books on music hall and Variety, …
- Kevin Davies
Kevin Jon Davies is a British television and video director primarily associated with documentaries and spin-off videos associated with "Doctor Who", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Blake's 7". He also worked on the BAFTA award-winning animation sequences of the 1981 "Hitchhiker's Guide" television adaptation.
- Paddy Kingsland
Paddy Kingsland is a composer of electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He joined the BBC as a tape editor before moving on to become a studio manager for BBC Radio 1. In 1970 he joined the Radiophonic Workshop where he remained until 1981.
- Simon Brett
Simon Brett (born 28 October 1945, Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a prolific writer of whodunnits. Brett worked for radio and television before becoming a full-time writer in the late 1970s. He is married with three children and lives in the South of England. Brett has written three series of detective novels (listed below).
- Charles McKeown
Charles McKeown (b.1946) is a British actor and writer, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. The two met while shooting "Monty Python's Life of Brian", while McKeown was doing bit parts in the film. Gilliam later casted him in "Time Bandits" as the Theater Manager. McKeown co-wrote the screenplay for "Brazil" (1985) with Gilliam and Tom Stoppard, for which they were collectively nominated for an Academy Award.
- Brian Moriarty
Brian Moriarty (born 1956) is an American game developer who authored three of the original Infocom interactive fiction titles, "Wishbringer" (1985), "Trinity" (1986) and "Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor" (1987). Two earlier games, "Adventure in the 5th Dimension" (1983) and "Crash Dive!" (1984), were published in the pages of "ANALOG Computing", a magazine for Atari home computer enthusiasts.
- Mitch Benn
Mitch Benn (born Mitchell John Benn 20 January 1970) is a British musician of Liverpudlian/Scottish descent and stand-up comedian known for his satirical songs performed on BBC radio. Mitch Benn was born in Liverpool, England. He was educated at the Dovedale County Primary School (the same primary school John Lennon and George Harrison attended), the Liverpool Blue Coat School and the University of Edinburgh, …
- Graham Williams
Graham Williams was a British television producer and script editor, whose best known work was on the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". He was the producer on the show between 1977 and 1980, during the Tom Baker era and oversaw the most popular stories of the series, at their height recording more than 17.5 million viewers. He also wrote significant portions of the script for two stories beset by writing problems, …
- Christopher Austin
Christopher Austin is an accomplished Conductor, Arranger, and Orchestrator of film and television scores. His film work includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, and other assorted movies from 1999 until today. He has conducted with some of the world's finest Orchestra's, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and The Royal Ballet.
- Jack May
Jack May (23 April 1922 - 19 September 1997) was an English actor most well known for his portrayal of wine bar owner Nelson Gabriel in the long-running BBC radio drama, "The Archers". He was also the regular character of the butler William E. Simms in two series of the BBC1 fantasy / adventure television series "Adam Adamant Lives!" from 1966-67. A noted voice actor, he provided the voice for Igor, …