David Lynch
Director
186
Movies
20
TV Shows
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.
Behind the Camera
Twin Peaks
Escritor, Director, Productor Ejecutivo, Historia, Additional Editor, Diseñador de Sonido, Creator
Mulholland Drive: Sueños, misterios y secretos
Director, Escritor, Diseñador de Sonido, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dunas
Guionista, Director
Twin Peaks: fuego camina conmigo
Director, Escritor, Original Series Creator, Diseñador de Sonido, Productor Ejecutivo, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Personajes
Terciopelo azul
Director, Escritor
El Hombre Elefante
Guionista, Director, Diseñador de Sonido
Cabeza Borradora
Special Effects, Compositor, Editor, Dir. de Arte, Diseño de Producción, Productor, Guionista, Sound Effects, Director
Inland Empire
Editor, Director, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía, Diseñador de Sonido, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Camera Operator, Escritor
Por el lado oscuro del camino
Diseñador de Sonido, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Director, Escritor
Corazón Salvaje
Director, Guionista
On the Air
Escritor, Director, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
Una Historia Verdadera
Director, Diseñador de Sonido
Twin Peaks
Director, Escritor, Productor Ejecutivo
La Cabaña Sangrienta
Thanks
Hotel Room
Productor Ejecutivo, Diseñador de Sonido, Director, Creator
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
Director
Les Français vus par
Director
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Director, Editor, Escritor, Personajes, Sound Mixer
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Productor Ejecutivo
Faraway Eyes
Thanks
Lumière y compañía
Director
DumbLand
Escritor, Productor, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía, Animation, Director, Creator
Surveillance
Productor Ejecutivo
Nadja
Productor Ejecutivo
Rabbits
Director, Escritor, Creator
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
Director
The King of Ads
Director
WHAT DID JACK DO?
Director, Sound Mixer, Diseñador de Sonido, Set Decoration, Escritor, Editor, Music, Set Designer
42 One Dream Rush
Director
Rabbits
Guionista, Director
As Actor/Actress
Padre de Familia
Gus (voice)
Twin Peaks
Gordon Cole
Pollo Robot
Mad Scientist (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
Cleveland Show
Louie
Jack Dall
The Oscars
Self
Dunas
Spice Miner (uncredited)
The Nineties
Self (archive footage)
Twin Peaks: fuego camina conmigo
Gordon Cole
El Hombre Elefante
Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)
Los Fabelman
John Ford
Legends
Self
Inland Empire
Bucky J, the gaffer (voice)
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
Scene by Scene
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
Mel Brooks: ¡El hombre de 99 años!
Self - Filmmaker
Crítico
Self (voice)
Продавцы планктона
Self (archive footage)
Un film et son époque
Self
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Gordon Cole
Lucky
Howard
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self
Why Are We Creative?
Self
Lumière y compañía
Self
DumbLand
Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice)
Side by Side
Self
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
Self