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Known For
Directing
Birthday
January 20, 1946
Died
January 15, 2025
Place of Birth
Missoula, Montana, USA
Also Known As
- 데이빗 린치
- デイヴィッド・リンチ
- دیوید لینچ
David Lynch
1.9 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.0
Self - Director
Welcome to Lynchland
2025
10.0
Himself (archive footage)
The Making Of A Mockumentary
2025
0.0
Self
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
2025
0.0
Self (archive footage)
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
2025
0.0
Self (Archive Footage)
Encholalia
2025
6.5
Self
Beatles '64
2024
7.2
Self (archive footage)
Lynch/Oz
2023
7.6
John Ford
The Fabelmans
2022
0.0
Self
This Is Sparklehorse
2022
4.0
Self (voice) (archive footage)
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
2021
Credits
Welcome to Lynchland
as Self - Director
2025
6.0
The Making Of A Mockumentary
as Himself (archive footage)
2025
10.0
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
as Self
2025
0.0
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Encholalia
as Self (Archive Footage)
2025
0.0
Beatles '64
as Self
2024
6.5
Lynch/Oz
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.2
The Fabelmans
as John Ford
2022
7.6
This Is Sparklehorse
as Self
2022
0.0
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
4.0
Moby Doc
as Self
2021
6.1
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
as Self
2021
0.0
This Is Pop
as Self (archive footage)
2021
5.8
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
as himself
2020
0.0
Meeting the Beatles in India
as Self
2020
6.5
A Fall from Grace
as William Tabb
2020
0.0
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
as Self
2019
6.8
The Original Image - David Lynch
2019
8.1
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
as Himself
2019
0.0
Curtains Up
2018
0.0
Why Are We Creative?
as Self
2018
7.6
The Number of Completion
as Self
2017
5.5
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
as Self
2017
6.6
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
as Self
2017
7.0
Tell It Martin
as Self
2017
5.0
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
as Self
2017
5.0
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
as Self
2017
0.0
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
as Self
2017
6.0
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
as Self
2017
7.0
A Pot of Boiling Oil
as Self
2017
6.0
Bad Binoculars
as Self
2017
8.0
Two Blue Balls
as Self
2017
0.0
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
as Self
2017
0.0
Behind the Red Curtain
as Self
2017
6.2
The Polish Accountant
as Self
2017
6.0
WHAT DID JACK DO?
as Detective
2017
6.3
Plankton Salesmen
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
Lucky
as Howard
2017
7.3
The Nineties
as Self (archive footage)
2017
6.8
The Black Ghiandola
as Man In Black
2017
7.0
David Lynch: The Art Life
as Self
2017
7.0
Girlfriend's Day
as Narrator (voice)
2017
5.0
Rocksteppy
as Himself
2017
8.3
Along for the Ride
as Self
2016
7.0
Shadows of Paradise
2016
4.5
Blue Velvet Revisited
as Self
2016
6.9
On Meditation
as Self
2016
7.0
The Reality of Truth
as Self
2016
4.3
Night Flight: Born Again
as Self
2016
0.0
🎬
The Music of David Lynch
as Self
2016
8.8
Rammstein in Amerika
as Self
2015
8.0
Brand: A Second Coming
as Self
2015
6.0
My Beautiful Broken Brain
as Self
2014
7.1
Between Two Worlds
as Self
2014
7.2
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
as Gordon Cole
2014
7.3
The 8th Floor
as Self
2014
0.0
🎬
It's a Beautiful World
as Self
2014
5.2
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
as Self
2014
6.0
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
as Self
2013
6.6
What Is Cinema?
as Self
2013
6.4
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
as Self
2013
8.2
Professor Goudet's Lessons
as Self
2013
0.0
Memory Film
2012
5.6
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
as Self
2012
5.8
Side by Side
as Self
2012
7.2
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
as Himself
2011
0.0
2012: Time for Change
as Self
2010
6.1
Brunes et Blondes
as Self
2010
0.0
Louie
as Jack Dall
2010
7.8
David Wants to Fly
2010
7.0
🎬
When Lynch Met Lucas
2010
5.4
The Cleveland Show
2009
5.9
Red Fish
as O Sábio
2009
7.7
The Way of Samodelkin
as Stranger in a dream
2009
0.0
Great Directors
as Self
2009
5.9
La Traversée du désir
as Self
2009
5.7
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
as Self
2008
6.3
Hollyshorts Greeting
as Himself
2008
7.5
Early Experiments
2008
6.4
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
as Self
2008
7.3
Critic
as Self (voice)
2008
7.9
The Sound of Lynch
2007
5.7
A Slice of Lynch
as Self
2007
6.9
Lynch (one)
as Self
2007
5.7
Out Yonder — Chicken
2007
5.8
Lynch 2
as Self
2007
0.0
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
as himself
2007
5.5
🎬
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
as Himself
2007
0.0
Inland Empire
as Bucky J
2006
7.0
Legends
as Self
2006
5.0
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
as Himself
2006
6.3
Edge of Outside
as Self (archive footage)
2006
5.8
Robot Chicken
as Mad Scientist (voice)
2005
7.6
David Lynch: 1985
as Self
2005
0.0
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
0.0
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
2004
7.5
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
as Self
2004
6.8
Leçon de Cinéma
as Self
2004
7.0
Boat
as The Man
2003
5.5
Does That Hurt You?
as Self
2003
7.5
Lamp
as Self
2003
4.8
Return to Mulholland Drive
as Self
2003
8.0
Un film et son époque
as Self
2003
10.0
Out Yonder — Teeth
2003
6.2
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
as Self
2003
5.0
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
2002
6.2
I Don't Know Jack
as Self
2002
7.7
BlueBob Egg
as Billy Groper
2002
3.1
Mysteries of Love
as Self (archive footage)
2002
7.1
The Short Films of David Lynch
as Self
2002
7.1
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
2002
6.2
DumbLand
as Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice)
2001
6.3
Eraserhead Stories
as Self
2001
7.2
🎬
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
2001
6.0
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
as Self
1999
5.8
Family Guy
as Gus (voice)
1999
7.4
Family Guy
as David Lynch (voice)
1999
7.4
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
as Self
1998
0.0
🎬
Independent Focus
as Self
1998
9.0
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
as Self
1997
7.0
Scene by Scene
as Self
1997
6.0
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
as Self
1996
5.7
Nadja
as Morgue Receptionist
1995
5.7
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
as Himself
1994
6.9
Made in the USA
as Self
1993
2.0
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
as Gordon Cole
1992
7.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
5.4
🎬
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
as Self
1991
0.0
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
as Self
1990
5.0
Hollywood Mavericks
as Self
1990
6.0
Twin Peaks
as Gordon Cole
1990
8.3
Cinéma, de notre temps
as David Lynch
1989
4.7
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
as Self
1989
9.0
Zelly & Me
as Willie
1988
5.4
No Frank in Lumberton
as Self
1988
7.8
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
1988
7.5
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
as Himself
1987
0.0
Dune
as Spice Miner (uncredited)
1984
6.2
Destination Dune
as Self
1983
5.0
The Elephant Man
as Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)
1980
8.0
Heart Beat
as Painter
1980
5.6
The Amputee
as Nurse
1974
5.1
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
1967
5.7
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
The Soul Detective
as Himself
N/A
0.0