David Lynch

Directing · 2.7 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

Plankton Salesmen

2017

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

20147.2

Lucky

20177.3

Hollywood Mavericks

19907.3

Beatles '64

20246.5

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Why Are We Creative?

20187.5

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

19887.6

I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

2026

Side by Side

20127.3

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Nadja

19955.7

Lumière & Company

19956.3

Lynch 2

2007

Lynch (one)

20075.7

Girlfriend's Day

20175.0

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

20138.2

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

2025

The 8th Floor

20146.0

Mysteries of Love

20027.1

David Lynch: The Art Life

20177.0

The Soul Detective

2009

Lynch/Oz

20237.0

Meeting the Beatles in India

20206.5

WHAT DID JACK DO?

20176.3

In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

19996.2

A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth

20176.0

The Black Ghiandola

20176.5

The Amputee

19745.1

La Traversée du désir

20095.7

Night Flight: Born Again

2016

Heart Beat

19805.6

I Don't Know Jack

20027.9

Bad Binoculars

20178.0

Zelly & Me

19885.8

Brunes et Blondes

2010

Professor Goudet's Lessons

2013

The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’

20046.7

I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun

20176.6

Eraserhead Stories

20017.3

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

20136.9

Rammstein in Amerika

20158.0

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

20016.3

The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair

20177.1

Eyes Behind the Lens

2026

Made in the USA

19932.0

Blue Velvet Revisited

20166.9

The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune

20214.0

Critic

20087.9

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

19907.5

David Lynch in Oslo

2010

Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy

20026.2

Elvis | Viva Las Vegas

20087.3

Along for the Ride

20167.0

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers

20175.0

David Lynch: Insight

2017

My Beautiful Broken Brain

20147.1

Brand: A Second Coming

20156.0

Moby Doc

20216.1

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

2004

The Making Of A Mockumentary

202510.0

The Number of Completion

20175.5

Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon

20178.0

A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks

20177.0

The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed

20026.2

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

19977.2

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991

The Reality of Truth

20164.3

Curtains Up

2018

The Polish Accountant

20176.0

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

19965.5

What Is Cinema?

20136.5

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

20066.3

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

19675.6

No Frank in Lumberton

19888.2

Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com

20075.5

Destination Dune

19836.5

The Short Films of David Lynch

20025.5

Out Yonder — Chicken

20075.8

The Music of David Lynch

20168.8

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

20036.7

The Original Image - David Lynch

20197.7

David Wants to Fly

20107.0

2012: Time for Change

20106.3

Between Two Worlds

20147.2

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

19899.3

Boat

20035.4

Does That Hurt You?

20037.7

On Meditation

20167.0

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

20048.3

Tell It Martin

20175.0

Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff

19947.2

Behind the Red Curtain

20176.2

Out Yonder — Teeth

20036.2

Hollyshorts Greeting

20087.5

Memory Film

20125.6

Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love

20146.0

A Slice of Lynch

20076.9

David Lynch: The Virtual Life

2020

Shadows of Paradise

20164.5

A Pot of Boiling Oil

20176.0

Meditation, Creativity, Peace

20125.8

Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten

2011

Great Directors

20096.1

Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House

2021

See You on the Other Side Dear Friend

2017

It's a Beautiful World

20145.4

Two Blue Balls

2017

Lamp

20034.8

Ruth, Roses, and Revolver

1987

Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

20086.1

Return to Mulholland Drive

20038.0

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

1998

Red Fish

20097.7

BlueBob Egg

20023.4

This Is Sparklehorse

2022

Early Experiments

20086.4

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

2007

The Sound of Lynch

20076.0

When Lynch Met Lucas

20105.4

Rocksteppy

20178.3

David Lynch: 1985

2005

David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange

2025

What Would David Lynch Do?

2026

The Way of Samodelkin

2009

David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film

2019