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David Lynch
Born · January 20, 1946
Died · January 15, 2025 (78 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Missoula, Montana, USA
Bio
David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 15, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Lynch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lynch/Oz
Self (archive footage)
7.2
2023
The Fabelmans
John Ford
7.6
2022
This Is Sparklehorse
Self
0.0
2022
Curtains Up
0.0
2018
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
Self
0.0
2017
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Detective
6.3
2017
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2017
Lucky
Howard
7.3
2017
The Black Ghiandola
Man In Black
7.0
2017
David Lynch: The Art Life
Self
6.9
2017
Rocksteppy
Himself
8.3
2017
Along for the Ride
Self
7.0
2016
Shadows of Paradise
5.7
2016
Blue Velvet Revisited
Self
6.9
2016
On Meditation
Self
7.0
2016
Night Flight: Born Again
Self
0.0
2016
The Music of David Lynch
Self
8.8
2016
Brand: A Second Coming
Self
6.0
2015
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Self
7.1
2014
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Gordon Cole
7.3
2014
It's a Beautiful World
Self
5.2
2014
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
6.6
2013
What Is Cinema?
Self
6.4
2013
Side by Side
Self
7.2
2012
2012: Time for Change
Self
6.1
2010
David Wants to Fly
7.1
2010
The Way of Samodelkin
Stranger in a dream
0.0
2009
Great Directors
Self
5.9
2009
La Traversée du désir
Self
5.7
2009
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
Self
6.4
2008
Hollyshorts Greeting
Himself
7.6
2008
A Slice of Lynch
Self
6.9
2007
Lynch (one)
Self
5.7
2007
Out Yonder — Chicken
5.8
2007
Lynch 2
Self
0.0
2007
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
himself
5.5
2007
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
Himself
0.0
2007
Le son de Lynch
5.7
2007
Inland Empire
Bucky J
7.0
2006
Edge of Outside
Self (archive footage)
5.8
2006
David Lynch: 1985
Self
0.0
2005
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Self
7.5
2004
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
Self
6.8
2004
Boat
The Man
5.6
2003
Lamp
Self
4.6
2003
Out Yonder — Teeth
6.2
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Self
5.0
2003
I Don't Know Jack
Self
7.7
2002
BlueBob Egg
Billy Groper
2.8
2002
Mysteries of Love
Self (archive footage)
7.1
2002
The Short Films of David Lynch
Self
7.2
2002
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
6.2
2002
Eraserhead Stories
Self
7.4
2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Self
6.0
2001
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Self
7.0
1997
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Self
5.7
1996
Nadja
Morgue Receptionist
5.8
1995
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
Himself
6.9
1994
Made in the USA
Self
2.0
1993
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Chief Gordon Cole
7.4
1992
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Self
0.0
1991
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Self
5.0
1990
Zelly & Me
Willie
5.4
1988
No Frank in Lumberton
Self
7.8
1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
7.5
1988
Destination Dune
Self
5.0
1983
The Elephant Man
Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)
8.0
1980
Heart Beat
Painter
5.6
1980
The Amputee
Nurse
5.1
1974
The Soul Detective
Himself
0.0
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
5.7
1967
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Self
0.0
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Himself (archive footage)
10.0
2025
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2025
Encholalia
Self (Archive Footage)
0.0
2025
David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma
Self - Director
7.2
2025
Beatles '64
Self
6.4
2024
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
Self (voice) (archive footage)
4.0
2021
Moby Doc
Self
6.1
2021
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
0.0
2021
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
5.9
2021
Meeting the Beatles in India
Self
6.5
2020
A Fall from Grace
William Tabb
0.0
2020
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self
6.8
2019
L'Image Originelle - David Lynch
7.0
2019
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
Himself
0.0
2019
Tell It Martin
Self
5.0
2017
The Polish Accountant
Self
6.0
2017
The Number of Completion
Self
5.5
2017
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
Self
0.0
2017
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
Self
5.0
2017
Bad Binoculars
Self
8.0
2017
Two Blue Balls
Self
0.0
2017
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
Self
7.0
2017
Behind the Red Curtain
Self
6.2
2017
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
Self
6.0
2017
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
Self
6.6
2017
A Pot of Boiling Oil
Self
6.0
2017
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
Self
7.0
2017
The Nineties
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
6.8
2017
Girlfriend's Day
Narrator (voice)
5.0
2017
The Reality of Truth
Self
4.3
2016
Rammstein in Amerika
Self
8.0
2015
Between Two Worlds
Self
7.2
2014
The 8th Floor
Self
0.0
2014
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Self
6.0
2014
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Self
8.2
2013
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Self
0.0
2013
Memory Film
5.5
2012
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Self
5.8
2012
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
Himself
0.0
2011
Brunes et Blondes
Self
0.0
2010
Louie
Jack Dall · (2 episodes)
7.8
2010
When Lynch Met Lucas
5.4
2010
The Cleveland Show
(11 episodes)
5.9
2009
Red Fish
O Sábio
7.7
2009
Early Experiments
6.4
2008
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
Self
7.3
2008
Critic
Self (voice)
7.9
2008
Legends
Self · (1 episode)
5.0
2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Himself
6.3
2006
Robot Chicken
Mad Scientist (voice) · (2 episodes)
7.6
2005
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
0.0
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
2004
Does That Hurt You?
Self
7.5
2003
Return to Mulholland Drive
Self
8.0
2003
Un film et son époque
Self · (1 episode)
10.0
2003
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
6.4
2002
DumbLand
Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice) · (8 episodes)
6.3
2001
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
Self
5.8
1999
Family Guy
Gus (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
1999
Family Guy
David Lynch (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
1999
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Self
0.0
1998
Independent Focus
Self · (1 episode)
9.0
1998
Scene by Scene
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self · (1 episode)
5.4
1992
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
6.0
1990
Twin Peaks
Gordon Cole · (17 episodes)
8.3
1990
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Self
9.0
1989
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
Himself
0.0
1987
Dune
Spice Miner (uncredited)
6.2
1984
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
6.9
1953