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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-01-20
Place of birth
Missoula, Montana, USA
Images
Cast
David Lynch: 1985
2005
0.00
Zelly & Me
1988
5.69
I Don't Know Jack
2002
7.70
Destination Dune
1983
5.00
The Amputee
1974
5.10
The Fabelmans
2022
7.58
Inland Empire
2006
7.00
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
1994
6.90
Side by Side
2012
7.30
Mysteries of Love
2002
7.10
The Way of Samodelkin
2009
0.00
Nadja
1995
5.50
Curtains Up
2018
0.00
Eraserhead Stories
2001
7.30
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
2004
6.80
Night Flight: Born Again
2016
0.00
BlueBob Egg
2002
3.40
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
2017
0.00
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014
7.25
The Soul Detective
2009
0.00
Boat
2003
5.50
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
5.00
Brand: A Second Coming
2015
5.98
It's a Beautiful World
2014
5.20
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
1967
5.70
No Frank in Lumberton
1988
7.80
Made in the USA
1993
2.00
The Elephant Man
1980
8.05
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
2002
6.20
This Is Sparklehorse
2022
0.00
What Is Cinema?
2013
6.46
My Beautiful Broken Brain
2014
7.10
Lucky
2017
7.31
David Lynch: The Art Life
2017
6.94
Blue Velvet Revisited
2016
6.90
Shadows of Paradise
2016
4.50
On Meditation
2016
7.00
Heart Beat
1980
5.47
The Music of David Lynch
2016
8.80
Great Directors
2009
5.90
A Slice of Lynch
2007
6.90
The Sound of Lynch
2007
5.70
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
7.40
Lynch (one)
2007
5.70
Lynch 2
2007
0.00
2012: Time for Change
2010
6.10
The Black Ghiandola
2017
6.90
David Wants to Fly
2010
7.00
Lamp
2003
4.80
La Traversée du désir
2009
5.70
Rocksteppy
2017
8.30
Along for the Ride
2016
7.00
WHAT DID JACK DO?
2017
6.33
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
2025
0.00
Out Yonder — Teeth
2003
6.20
Out Yonder — Chicken
2007
5.80
Hollyshorts Greeting
2008
7.50
Early Experiments
2008
6.40
Dune
1984
6.18
The 8th Floor
2014
0.00
Between Two Worlds
2014
7.20
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
2012
5.80
Girlfriend's Day
2017
5.01
Memory Film
2012
5.60
Red Fish
2009
7.70
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
6.00
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
8.20
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
2008
7.30
Critic
2008
7.90
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
1989
9.00
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
1987
0.00
The Reality of Truth
2016
4.30
Professor Goudet's Lessons
2013
0.00
When Lynch Met Lucas
2010
5.40
Rammstein in Amerika
2015
8.00
Does That Hurt You?
2003
7.50
Brunes et Blondes
2010
0.00
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
6.50
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999
5.80
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
2002
6.25
The Original Image - David Lynch
2019
7.70
Moby Doc
2021
6.10
Tell It Martin
2017
5.00
The Polish Accountant
2017
6.00
The Number of Completion
2017
5.50
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
2017
5.00
Bad Binoculars
2017
8.00
Two Blue Balls
2017
0.00
Behind the Red Curtain
2017
6.20
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
2017
6.00
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
2017
6.60
A Pot of Boiling Oil
2017
6.00
Beatles '64
2024
6.58
Return to Mulholland Drive
2003
8.00
The Making Of A Mockumentary
2025
10.00
Why Are We Creative?
2018
7.60
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
2020
0.00
The Amputee
1974
4.00
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
0.00
Plankton Salesmen
2017
0.00
Lynch/Oz
2023
6.90
PlayStation 2: The Third Place
2000
4.00
The Short Films of David Lynch
2002
6.00
Lumière & Company
1995
6.21
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa
2007
0.00