David Lynch
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-01-20
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.
Also Known For
David Lynch: 1985
Jan 01, 2005
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Jan 03, 1988
Zelly & Me
Apr 15, 1988
I Don't Know Jack
Apr 05, 2002
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Oct 14, 1997
Destination Dune
Jan 01, 1983
The Amputee
Jan 01, 1974
The Fabelmans
Nov 11, 2022
Inland Empire
Dec 06, 2006
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
Sep 09, 1994
Side by Side
Aug 19, 2012
Mysteries of Love
Feb 24, 2002
The Way of Samodelkin
Jun 05, 2009
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Sep 11, 2013
Nadja
Sep 01, 1995
Curtains Up
Oct 05, 2018
Eraserhead Stories
Sep 06, 2001
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
Apr 05, 2004
Night Flight: Born Again
Apr 10, 2016
BlueBob Egg
Feb 25, 2002
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
Dec 05, 2017
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Jul 16, 2014
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
May 17, 1991
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
Apr 01, 2007
The Soul Detective
Feb 02, 2009
Boat
Dec 23, 2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Feb 10, 2003
Brand: A Second Coming
Mar 13, 2015
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Apr 01, 2001
It's a Beautiful World
Apr 21, 2014
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
Jan 01, 1967
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
May 01, 2004
No Frank in Lumberton
Jan 19, 1988
Made in the USA
Sep 25, 1993
The Elephant Man
Oct 09, 1980
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
Feb 11, 2002
This Is Sparklehorse
Oct 12, 2022
What Is Cinema?
Sep 06, 2013
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Oct 19, 1990
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Nov 21, 2014
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Jul 18, 2025
Lucky
Sep 29, 2017
David Lynch: The Art Life
Feb 15, 2017
Blue Velvet Revisited
Oct 07, 2016
Shadows of Paradise
Oct 11, 2016
On Meditation
Jul 27, 2016
Heart Beat
Apr 25, 1980
The Music of David Lynch
Apr 10, 2016
Great Directors
May 19, 2009
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Nov 17, 1996
A Slice of Lynch
Oct 30, 2007
The Sound of Lynch
Dec 31, 2007
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Jun 03, 1992
Lynch (one)
Oct 26, 2007
Lynch 2
Aug 14, 2007
The Black Ghiandola
Apr 22, 2017
2012: Time for Change
Oct 08, 2010
David Wants to Fly
May 06, 2010
Lamp
Sep 09, 2003
La Traversée du désir
Mar 16, 2009
Rocksteppy
Jan 01, 2017
Along for the Ride
Nov 03, 2016
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Apr 09, 2025
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Nov 08, 2017
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
Nov 25, 2008
Early Experiments
Nov 25, 2008
Out Yonder — Chicken
Sep 10, 2007
Out Yonder — Teeth
Apr 16, 2003
Hollyshorts Greeting
Nov 25, 2008
Dune
Dec 14, 1984
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Jun 20, 2006
The 8th Floor
May 10, 2014
Between Two Worlds
Jul 29, 2014
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Nov 15, 2012
Girlfriend's Day
Jan 24, 2017
Memory Film
Dec 11, 2012
Red Fish
Jun 16, 2009
Hollywood Mavericks
Sep 07, 1990
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
May 20, 2013
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
Sep 16, 2008
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Oct 25, 2019
Critic
Jan 22, 2008
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Jan 01, 1989
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
Feb 20, 1987
The Reality of Truth
Jul 19, 2016
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Oct 18, 1998
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Apr 06, 2013
When Lynch Met Lucas
Feb 13, 2010
Rammstein in Amerika
Sep 25, 2015
Does That Hurt You?
Oct 18, 2003
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
Jan 01, 2011
Brunes et Blondes
Oct 06, 2010
Meeting the Beatles in India
Sep 09, 2020
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Oct 07, 1999
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
Jun 21, 2002
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
Mar 10, 2021
The Original Image - David Lynch
May 01, 2019
Moby Doc
May 28, 2021
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Jan 20, 2014
The Polish Accountant
Dec 05, 2017
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
Dec 05, 2017
The Number of Completion
Dec 05, 2017
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
Dec 05, 2017
Tell It Martin
Dec 05, 2017
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Dec 05, 2017
A Pot of Boiling Oil
Dec 05, 2017
Two Blue Balls
Dec 05, 2017
Behind the Red Curtain
Dec 05, 2017
Bad Binoculars
Dec 05, 2017
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
Dec 05, 2017
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Dec 05, 2017
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
Dec 05, 2017
A Fall from Grace
Beatles '64
Nov 24, 2024
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Oct 14, 2021
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
Mar 18, 2019
Return to Mulholland Drive
Jun 17, 2003
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
Dec 07, 2004
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
Jan 29, 2025
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Apr 11, 2025
Why Are We Creative?
Sep 07, 2018
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
Nov 01, 2020
The Amputee
Jan 01, 1974
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Oct 23, 2025
David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything
Plankton Salesmen
Oct 29, 2017
Lynch/Oz
May 15, 2023
PlayStation 2: The Third Place
Oct 01, 2000
Black Baby
Aug 26, 2018
The Short Films of David Lynch
Jun 01, 2002
Lumière & Company
Dec 20, 1995
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Un film et son époque
May 17, 2003
The Cleveland Show
Sep 27, 2009
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
This Is Pop
Mar 06, 2021
Louie
Jun 29, 2010
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Independent Focus
Sep 09, 1998
Twin Peaks
Apr 08, 1990
The Nineties
Jul 09, 2017
Leçon de Cinéma
Mar 20, 2004
Scene by Scene
May 10, 1997
Robot Chicken
Feb 20, 2005
DumbLand
Dec 21, 2001
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Legends
Nov 17, 2006
