David Lynch

Known for DirectingBorn 1946-01-20Died 2025-01-16Missoula, Montana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Making Of A Mockumentary

'Reverse' – Ferox Hall Taskmaster 2025

Un film et son époque

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack

In Pursuit of Treasure

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

The Music of David Lynch

Rocksteppy

Twin Peaks

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Independent Focus

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon

Bad Binoculars

Psychogenic Fugue

Rammstein in Amerika

Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

No Frank in Lumberton

Return to Mulholland Drive

Critic

I Don't Know Jack

American Chronicles

The Original Image - David Lynch

Louie

The Elephant Man

Mulholland Drive

The Fabelmans

Red Fish

Why Are We Creative?

The Straight Story

Does That Hurt You?

Robot Chicken

Duran Duran: Unstaged

Hollyshorts Greeting

Lost Highway

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Lucky

Blue Velvet

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Family Guy

Elvis | Viva Las Vegas

Side by Side

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Between Two Worlds

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Eraserhead Stories