David Lynch1946 - 2025
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Director
Popularity
2.1
Famous
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.
Credits
2006
Drama • Fantasy • Horror • Mystery • Thriller
Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Director, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Camera Operator, Writer
2001
Drama • Mystery • Thriller
Director, Writer, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
1997
Drama • Mystery • Thriller
Sound Designer, Director, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Writer
1992
Drama • Horror • Mystery
Director, Writer, Original Series Creator, Executive Producer, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Characters
1977
Fantasy • Horror
Production Design, Art Direction, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer, Special Effects, Editor, Sound Effects, Director
1970
Animation • Horror
Director, Script, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Animation, Writer, Producer
1969
Animation • Horror
Director, Writer, Sound, Animation, Director of Photography, Editor
2025
Comedy • Documentary • Drama • Fantasy • Horror • Thriller
Director, Executive Producer
2017
Crime • Drama • Mystery
Director, Music, Sound Designer, Set Designer, Set Decoration, Sound Mixer, Writer, Editor
