David Lynch
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
147
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-01-20
Day of death
2025-01-16 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Missoula, Montana, USA
David Lynch
Biography
David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Lynch received critical acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In his 58-year career, he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by The Guardian announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important filmmaker of the current era." Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film was the independent surrealist film Eraserhead (1977), which saw success as a midnight movie. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980) and the mystery films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001). His romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera adaptation Dune (1984), the surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006). Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–91), for which Lynch was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and its limited series revival (2017). He has also worked as an actor, including his portrayals of FBI agent Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks and director John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), as well as guest roles in TV series such as The Cleveland Show (2010–13), Louie (2012), and Robot Chicken (2020, 2022). Lynch's other artistic endeavours included his work as a musician, encompassing the studio albums BlueBOB (2001), Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013), as well as painting and photography. He has written the books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), and Room to Dream (2018). He has directed several music videos for artists such as Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Donovan, and commercials for Calvin Klein, Dior, L'Oreal, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, and the New York City Department of Sanitation. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), he founded the David Lynch Foundation, which seeks to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans, and refugees.
Known For
Family Guy
Family Guy
Twin Peaks
Robot Chicken
The Cleveland Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Louie
Dune
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Nadja
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
The Fabelmans
The Elephant Man
Lynch/Oz
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Lynch (one)
Beatles '64
Zelly & Me
Critic
Plankton Salesmen
Legends
Heart Beat
The Nineties
Meeting the Beatles in India
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Leçon de Cinéma
Inland Empire
The Reality of Truth
David Lynch: The Art Life
Moby Doc
Lynch 2
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
This Is Pop
Scene by Scene
Hollywood Mavericks
2012: Time for Change
Great Directors
Side by Side
Why Are We Creative?
What Is Cinema?
Un film et son époque
The Short Films of David Lynch
Rammstein in Amerika
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Lucky
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
The Black Ghiandola
Brand: A Second Coming
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
La Traversée du désir
The Music of David Lynch
Mysteries of Love
Made in the USA
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
A Slice of Lynch
Behind the Red Curtain
The Amputee
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Along for the Ride
I Don't Know Jack
Night Flight: Born Again
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
The Polish Accountant
Two Blue Balls
Girlfriend's Day
DumbLand
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Independent Focus
Eraserhead Stories
Bad Binoculars
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
No Frank in Lumberton
Blue Velvet Revisited
Cinéma, de notre temps
The Number of Completion
A Fall from Grace
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
PlayStation 2: The Third Place
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
A Pot of Boiling Oil
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
David Wants to Fly
The 8th Floor
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Lamp
Tell It Martin
Black Baby
Brunes et Blondes
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
It's a Beautiful World
This Is Sparklehorse
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Shadows of Paradise
Rocksteppy
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
Destination Dune
Early Experiments
Red Fish
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
On Meditation
Curtains Up
The Original Image - David Lynch
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
Between Two Worlds
BlueBob Egg
The Amputee
David Lynch: 1985
The Making Of A Mockumentary
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
The Soul Detective
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Out Yonder — Chicken
Memory Film
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
Boat
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
Does That Hurt You?
The Way of Samodelkin
The Sound of Lynch
Out Yonder — Teeth
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
When Lynch Met Lucas
Return to Mulholland Drive
Hollyshorts Greeting
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
