About David Lynch
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.
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Movie Credits
David Lynch has appeared in 137 movies.
TV Credits
David Lynch has appeared in 16 shows.
Production Credits
Directing
Credited for Director in 86 shows -
Interview Project,
Six Men Getting Sick,
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler,
Absurd Encounter with Fear,
The Alphabet,
The Grandmother,
The Amputee,
The Amputee,
Eraserhead,
The Elephant Man,
Dune,
Blue Velvet,
The Cowboy and the Frenchman,
The French as Seen by…,
Twin Peaks,
Twin Peaks,
Wild at Heart,
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted,
The King of Ads,
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,
On the Air,
On the Air,
Hotel Room,
The Wall,
Dangerous: The Short Films,
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed,
Lumière & Company,
Lost Highway,
Parisienne People by David Lynch,
Mulholland Dr.,
The Straight Story,
One Morning All Over the World,
PlayStation 2: The Third Place,
Mulholland Drive,
Eraserhead Stories,
Sunset #1,
Head with Hammer,
DumbLand,
Factory Mask,
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy,
Pierre and Sonny Jim,
Dead Mouse with Ants,
Steps,
Coyote #1,
The Short Films of David Lynch,
BlueBob Egg,
Darkened Room,
The Pig Walks,
The Short Films of David Lynch,
Rabbits,
Rabbits,
Industrial Soundscape,
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed,
Out Yonder — Teeth,
Lamp,
Boat,
Intervalometer Experiments,
Bug Crawls,
Inland Empire,
More Things That Happened,
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa,
Blue Green,
Blue Green,
Out Yonder — Chicken,
To Each His Own Cinema,
Ballerina,
Early Experiments,
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008,
Hollyshorts Greeting,
42 One Dream Rush,
42 One Dream Rush,
I Touch a Red Button Man,
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage,
20 Little Films,
David Lynch : Crazy Clown Time,
Meditation, Creativity, Peace,
Memory Film,
Idem Paris,
Duran Duran: Unstaged,
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces,
Fire (Pożar),
WHAT DID JACK DO?,
Ant Head,
Waiting for Mr. Lynch,
Fire and
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com.
Sound
Credited for Original Music Composer in 1 show -
Eraserhead.
Credited for Sound Effects in 1 show -
Eraserhead.
Production
Credited for Executive Producer in 20 shows -
A Fall from Grace,
Hyena,
Twin Peaks,
Twin Peaks,
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez,
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,
On the Air,
On the Air,
Hotel Room,
Nadja,
Mulholland Dr.,
Surveillance,
The Peaceline Project,
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,
My Beautiful Broken Brain,
Land of Nothing,
A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee,
The Other Me,
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com and
The Legend of the Happy Worker.
Credited for Producer in 22 shows -
Six Men Getting Sick,
The Grandmother,
The Amputee,
Eraserhead,
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted,
Head with Hammer,
DumbLand,
Factory Mask,
Coyote #1,
Dead Mouse with Ants,
BlueBob Egg,
Darkened Room,
The Pig Walks,
The Short Films of David Lynch,
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed,
Lamp,
Inland Empire,
Ballerina,
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008,
Early Experiments,
Ant Head and
Waiting for Mr. Lynch.
Writing
Credited for Writer in 41 shows -
Snootworld,
The Alphabet,
The Grandmother,
The Amputee,
The Amputee,
Blue Velvet,
The Gauls,
The Cowboy and the Frenchman,
Twin Peaks,
Twin Peaks,
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,
On the Air,
On the Air,
Lost Highway,
Mulholland Dr.,
Mulholland Drive,
Head with Hammer,
DumbLand,
Factory Mask,
Dead Mouse with Ants,
Coyote #1,
The Short Films of David Lynch,
BlueBob Egg,
Darkened Room,
The Pig Walks,
The Short Films of David Lynch,
Rabbits,
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed,
Does That Hurt You?,
Boat,
Inland Empire,
More Things That Happened,
Ballerina,
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008,
Early Experiments,
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage,
Meditation, Creativity, Peace,
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces,
WHAT DID JACK DO?,
Ant Head and
Waiting for Mr. Lynch.
Editing
Credited for Editor in 14 shows -
Six Men Getting Sick,
The Alphabet,
Eraserhead,
Head with Hammer,
DumbLand,
Coyote #1,
Darkened Room,
The Pig Walks,
Inland Empire,
More Things That Happened,
Early Experiments,
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces,
WHAT DID JACK DO? and
Ant Head.
Credited for Additional Editor in 1 show -
Twin Peaks.
Crew
Credited for Special Effects in 1 show -
Eraserhead.
Art
Credited for Production Design in 1 show -
Eraserhead.
Credited for Art Direction in 1 show -
Eraserhead.
Credited for Art Designer in 1 show -
Fire.
Camera
Visual Effects
Creator
