David Lynch
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
144
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 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Cleveland Show
The Oscars
Louie
Legends
The Elephant Man
Dune
Side by Side
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Fabelmans
Un film et son époque
Inland Empire
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
This Is Pop
The Nineties
Lynch (one)
Great Directors
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Scene by Scene
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Beatles '64
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Critic
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Zelly & Me
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Why Are We Creative?
The Music of David Lynch
Leçon de Cinéma
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Rammstein in Amerika
Moby Doc
Meeting the Beatles in India
A Slice of Lynch
Heart Beat
Mysteries of Love
Two Blue Balls
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
What Is Cinema?
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Hollywood Mavericks
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Nadja
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Brand: A Second Coming
The Polish Accountant
2012: Time for Change
Made in the USA
Behind the Red Curtain
Lynch 2
The Black Ghiandola
The Reality of Truth
Destination Dune
La Traversée du désir
DumbLand
Lucky
Independent Focus
Night Flight: Born Again
David Lynch: The Art Life
I Don't Know Jack
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
A Fall from Grace
Plankton Salesmen
Cinéma, de notre temps
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
David Wants to Fly
The Short Films of David Lynch
Girlfriend's Day
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
Along for the Ride
The 8th Floor
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
The Number of Completion
No Frank in Lumberton
The Amputee
Boat
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Eraserhead Stories
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Out Yonder — Chicken
When Lynch Met Lucas
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
Bad Binoculars
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
The Way of Samodelkin
Brunes et Blondes
My Beautiful Broken Brain
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
The Soul Detective
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
Blue Velvet Revisited
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
Curtains Up
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
Tell It Martin
On Meditation
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Return to Mulholland Drive
A Pot of Boiling Oil
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
David Lynch: 1985
It's a Beautiful World
Between Two Worlds
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
The Sound of Lynch
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
Out Yonder — Teeth
Red Fish
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
The Amputee
Shadows of Paradise
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
This Is Sparklehorse
Rocksteppy
Memory Film
Hollyshorts Greeting
Early Experiments
The Original Image - David Lynch
BlueBob Egg
Lamp
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
Does That Hurt You?
