David Lynch

Directing · 2.9 popularity

Age

Movies

132

Born: January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025
From: Missoula, Montana, USA

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.

Works

132 films

The Fabelmans

20227.6

Dune

19846.2

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

19927.4

The Elephant Man

19808.0

Inland Empire

20067.0

Lucky

20177.3

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

Plankton Salesmen

2017

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

20147.2

Beatles '64

20246.5

Why Are We Creative?

20187.5

Girlfriend's Day

20175.0

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Lumière & Company

19956.3

Lynch 2

20076.0

David Lynch: The Art Life

20177.0

The Black Ghiandola

20176.5

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

19887.6

Nadja

19955.7

Lynch (one)

20075.7

Side by Side

20127.3

Hollywood Mavericks

19907.3

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

20138.2

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

20254.0

Meeting the Beatles in India

20206.5

Mysteries of Love

20027.1

I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

2026

Lynch/Oz

20237.0

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

The 8th Floor

20146.0

WHAT DID JACK DO?

20176.3

David Lynch in Oslo

2010

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

20136.9

A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth

20176.0

Heart Beat

19805.6

The Soul Detective

2009

In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

19996.2

The Amputee

19745.1

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers

20175.0

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

19907.5

Brunes et Blondes

2010

The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’

20046.7

David Lynch: Insight

2017

Blue Velvet Revisited

20166.9

Professor Goudet's Lessons

2013

Bad Binoculars

20178.0

I Don't Know Jack

20027.9

Zelly & Me

19885.8

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

20016.3

Elvis | Viva Las Vegas

20087.3

Night Flight: Born Again

2016

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991

The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair

20177.1

Critic

20087.9

The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune

20214.0

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

19977.2

Along for the Ride

20167.0

My Beautiful Broken Brain

20147.1

Eyes Behind the Lens

2026

I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun

20176.6

Eraserhead Stories

20017.3

Rammstein in Amerika

20158.0

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

20048.3

The Short Films of David Lynch

20025.5

Made in the USA

19932.0

The Number of Completion

20175.5

Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon

20178.0

Moby Doc

20216.1

Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

20086.1

The Making Of A Mockumentary

202510.0

The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed

20026.2

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

2004

Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy

20026.2

The Music of David Lynch

20168.8

The Reality of Truth

20164.3

Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com

20075.5

Tell It Martin

20175.0

What Is Cinema?

20136.5

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

19675.6

On Meditation

20167.0

Out Yonder — Chicken

20075.8

No Frank in Lumberton

19888.2

Brand: A Second Coming

20156.0

David Wants to Fly

20107.0

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

20036.7

It's a Beautiful World

20145.4

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

19965.5

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

19899.3

Meditation, Creativity, Peace

20125.8

Destination Dune

19836.5

The Original Image - David Lynch

20197.7

Curtains Up

2018

David Lynch: The Virtual Life

2020

A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks

20177.0

The Polish Accountant

20176.0

Boat

20035.4

Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff

19947.2

2012: Time for Change

20106.3

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

20066.3

Between Two Worlds

20147.2

BlueBob Egg

20023.4

Behind the Red Curtain

20176.2

Memory Film

20125.6

Hollyshorts Greeting

20087.5

A Slice of Lynch

20076.9

See You on the Other Side Dear Friend

2017

A Pot of Boiling Oil

20176.0

Shadows of Paradise

20164.5

Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love

20146.0

Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten

2011

Great Directors

20096.1

Two Blue Balls

2017

The Way of Samodelkin

2009

Lamp

20034.8

Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House

2021

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

1998

Out Yonder — Teeth

20036.2

Return to Mulholland Drive

20038.0

Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.

2007

Ruth, Roses, and Revolver

1987

What Would David Lynch Do?

2026

Does That Hurt You?

20037.7

This Is Sparklehorse

2022

The Sound of Lynch

20076.0

Early Experiments

20086.4

Red Fish

20097.7

David Lynch: 1985

2005

David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film

2019

When Lynch Met Lucas

20105.4

Rocksteppy

20178.3

David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange

2025