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David Lynch

David Lynch

Director · Born 1946-01-20 · Missoula, Montana, USA

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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 Stra…

Directed

  1. Mulholland Drive (2001) — Director
  2. The Elephant Man (1980) — Director
  3. Blue Velvet (1986) — Director
  4. Dune (1984) — Director
  5. Lost Highway (1997) — Director
  6. Eraserhead (1977) — Director
  7. Twin Peaks (1990) — Director
  8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — Director
  9. Wild at Heart (1990) — Director
  10. The Straight Story (1999) — Director
  11. Inland Empire (2006) — Director
  12. Twin Peaks (1989) — Director
  13. WHAT DID JACK DO? (2017) — Director
  14. Rabbits (2002) — Director
  15. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014) — Director
  16. The Alphabet (1969) — Director
  17. Six Men Getting Sick (1967) — Director
  18. The Grandmother (1970) — Director
  19. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Director
  20. The Amputee (1974) — Director
  21. Darkened Room (2002) — Director
  22. The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) — Director
  23. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
  24. Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967) — Director
  25. DumbLand (2001) — Director
  26. Boat (2003) — Director
  27. Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990) — Director
  28. Hotel Room (1993) — Director
  29. Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films (1993) — Director
  30. Duran Duran: Unstaged (2014) — Director
  31. Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967) — Director
  32. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995) — Director
  33. More Things That Happened (2007) — Director
  34. Eraserhead Stories (2001) — Director
  35. Ant Head (2018) — Director
  36. Idem Paris (2013) — Director
  37. Bug Crawls (2004) — Director
  38. Ballerina (2007) — Director
  39. Head with Hammer (2001) — Director
  40. The French as Seen by… (1988) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Family Guy (1999) — Gus (voice)
  2. The Elephant Man (1980) — Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)
  3. Dune (1984) — Spice Miner (uncredited)
  4. The Fabelmans (2022) — John Ford
  5. Twin Peaks (1990) — Gordon Cole
  6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — Gordon Cole
  7. Inland Empire (2006) — Bucky J, the gaffer (voice)
  8. Lucky (2017) — Howard
  9. Louie (2010) — Jack Dall
  10. Robot Chicken (2005) — Mad Scientist (voice)
  11. WHAT DID JACK DO? (2017) — Detective
  12. The Cleveland Show (2009)
  13. Side by Side (2012) — Self
  14. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014) — Gordon Cole
  15. David Lynch: The Art Life (2017) — Self
  16. Girlfriend's Day (2017) — Narrator (voice)
  17. The Amputee (1974) — The Nurse
  18. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) — Self
  19. Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006) — Self
  20. Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) — Self
  21. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  22. Lumière & Company (1995) — Self
  23. DumbLand (2001) — Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice)
  24. My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014) — Self
  25. Nadja (1995) — Morgue Receptionist
  26. Rammstein in Amerika (2015) — Self
  27. Beatles '64 (2024) — Self
  28. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) — Self
  29. Boat (2003) — The Man
  30. Lynch/Oz (2023) — Self (archival footage)
  31. Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967)
  32. Eraserhead Stories (2001) — Self
  33. Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997) — Self
  34. What Is Cinema? (2013) — Self
  35. Brand: A Second Coming (2015) — Self
  36. This Is Pop (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  37. The Nineties (2017) — Self (archive footage)
  38. Heart Beat (1980) — Painter (uncredited)
  39. Why Are We Creative? (2018) — Self
  40. Lynch (one) (2007) — Self