David Lynch
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
151
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 Oscars
The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show
Lynch/Oz
Louie
Hollywood Mavericks
The Fabelmans
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The 8th Floor
Lumière & Company
Dune
Legends
Critic
Plankton Salesmen
Made in the USA
The Nineties
I Don't Know Jack
Lynch 2
The Elephant Man
Mysteries of Love
The Amputee
Scene by Scene
The Black Ghiandola
Leçon de Cinéma
Inland Empire
Nadja
This Is Pop
Bad Binoculars
The Polish Accountant
Zelly & Me
Boat
Lynch (one)
Night Flight: Born Again
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
DumbLand
Eraserhead Stories
Un film et son époque
Lucky
Two Blue Balls
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Side by Side
Girlfriend's Day
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
David Lynch: The Art Life
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Cinéma, de notre temps
Great Directors
What Is Cinema?
Brunes et Blondes
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
Beatles '64
Independent Focus
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
A Fall from Grace
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
The Music of David Lynch
Blue Velvet Revisited
The Reality of Truth
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Moby Doc
Heart of the Festival
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Why Are We Creative?
La Traversée du désir
Along for the Ride
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
Rammstein in Amerika
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Tell It Martin
Heart Beat
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
The Short Films of David Lynch
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Out Yonder — Chicken
Destination Dune
Meeting the Beatles in India
No Frank in Lumberton
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
The Number of Completion
Brand: A Second Coming
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
A Slice of Lynch
David Wants to Fly
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
On Meditation
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
Lamp
Between Two Worlds
This Is Sparklehorse
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
The Making Of A Mockumentary
PlayStation 2: The Third Place
Curtains Up
It's a Beautiful World
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
BlueBob Egg
Return to Mulholland Drive
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
The Amputee
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Memory Film
The Way of Samodelkin
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
2012: Time for Change
David Lynch: 1985
Rocksteppy
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
Behind the Red Curtain
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
A Pot of Boiling Oil
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
Hollyshorts Greeting
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
Early Experiments
Red Fish
Does That Hurt You?
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
This Video of David Lynch Is Not What It Seems
Out Yonder — Teeth
The Original Image - David Lynch
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
The Sound of Lynch
Shadows of Paradise
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
When Lynch Met Lucas
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa
The Soul Detective
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
