David Lynch

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: Directing

Born: Missoula, Montana, USA, 1946-01-20

Died: 2025-01-15

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Sailing with Bushnell Keeler		57
2	1974	The Amputee	Nurse	51
3	1983	Destination Dune	Self	50
4	1984	Dune	Spice Miner (uncredited)	62
5	1987	Ruth, Roses, and Revolver	Himself	0
6	1988	Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night	Self - Audience Member	75
7	1988	Zelly & Me	Willie	54
8	1989	David Lynch: Don't Look at Me	Self	90
9	1990	Hollywood Mavericks	Self	60
10	1991	Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper	Self	0
11	1994	Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff	Himself	69
12	1995	Nadja	Morgue Receptionist	57
13	1997	Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch	Self	70
14	1998	The A-Z of Separating People from their Money	Self	0
15	1999	In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story	Self	58
16	2001	Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul	Self	60
17	2001	Eraserhead Stories	Self	73
18	2002	Mysteries of Love	Self (archive footage)	71
19	2002	BlueBob Egg	Billy Groper	31
20	2002	I Don't Know Jack	Self	77
21	2002	The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed		62
22	2003	Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)	Self	50
23	2003	Out Yonder — Teeth		62
24	2003	Return to Mulholland Drive	Self	80
25	2003	Does That Hurt You?	Self	75
26	2003	Boat	The Man	55
27	2004	The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’	Self	68
28	2004	Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart		0
29	2005	David Lynch: 1985	Self	0
30	2006	Edge of Outside	Self (archive footage)	58
31	2006	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	Self	63
32	2006	Inland Empire	Bucky J	70
33	2007	Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.	Himself	0
34	2007	Out Yonder — Chicken		58
35	2008	Critic	Self (voice)	79
36	2008	Elvis \| Viva Las Vegas	Self	73
37	2008	Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008	Self	63
38	2008	Early Experiments		64
39	2008	Hollyshorts Greeting	Himself	75
40	2009	The Way of Samodelkin	Stranger in a dream	0
41	2009	Red Fish	O Sábio	77
42	2010	When Lynch Met Lucas		54
43	2010	Brunes et Blondes	Self	0
44	2011	Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten	Himself	0
45	2012	Side by Side	Self	72
46	2012	Meditation, Creativity, Peace	Self	58
47	2012	Memory Film		56
48	2013	Professor Goudet's Lessons	Self	0
49	2013	Mel Brooks: Make a Noise	Self	82
50	2013	Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction	Self	66
51	2014	Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love	Self	60
52	2014	It's a Beautiful World	Self	52
53	2014	The 8th Floor	Self	0
54	2014	Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces	Gordon Cole	73
55	2014	Between Two Worlds	Self	72
56	2015	Brand: A Second Coming	Self	60
57	2015	Rammstein in Amerika	Self	80
58	2016	Night Flight: Born Again	Self	0
59	2016	The Reality of Truth	Self	43
60	2016	Along for the Ride	Self	70
61	2017	Girlfriend's Day	Narrator (voice)	50
62	2017	WHAT DID JACK DO?	Detective	63
63	2017	Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon	Self	0
64	2017	The Polish Accountant	Self	60
65	2017	Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers	Self	50
66	2017	The Number of Completion	Self	55
67	2017	See You on the Other Side Dear Friend	Self	0
68	2017	Tell It Martin	Self	50
69	2017	I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun	Self	66
70	2017	A Pot of Boiling Oil	Self	60
71	2017	Two Blue Balls	Self	0
72	2017	Behind the Red Curtain	Self	62
73	2017	Bad Binoculars	Self	80
74	2017	A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth	Self	60
75	2017	The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair	Self	70
76	2017	A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks	Self	70
77	2018	This Video of David Lynch Is Not What It Seems	Unknown	0
78	2018	Why Are We Creative?	Self	76
79	2018	Curtains Up		0
80	2019	David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film	Himself	0
81	2019	The Original Image - David Lynch		81
82	2019	Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound	Self	68
83	2020	A Fall from Grace	William Tabb	0
84	2020	Meeting the Beatles in India	Self	65
85	2020	David Lynch: The Virtual Life	himself	0
86	2021	Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House	Self	0
87	2021	Moby Doc	Self	61
88	2021	The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune	Self (voice) (archive footage)	40
89	2022	The Fabelmans	John Ford	76
90		The Soul Detective	Himself	0
91	1980	Heart Beat	Painter	56
92	1980	The Elephant Man	Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)	81
93	1988	No Frank in Lumberton	Self	78
94	1990	Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch	Self	50
95	1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Gordon Cole	74
96	1993	Made in the USA	Self	20
97	1996	The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money	Self	57
98	2002	Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy		62
99	2002	The Short Films of David Lynch	Self	71
100	2003	Lamp	Self	48
101	2004	Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments	Self	75
102	2007	Lynch 2	Self	0
103	2007	Lynch (one)	Self	57
104	2007	A Slice of Lynch	Self	69
105	2007	The Sound of Lynch		57
106	2009	La Traversée du désir	Self	57
107	2009	Great Directors	Self	59
108	2010	David Wants to Fly		70
109	2010	2012: Time for Change	Self	61
110	2013	What Is Cinema?	Self	64
111	2014	My Beautiful Broken Brain	Self	71
112	2016	The Music of David Lynch	Self	88
113	2016	On Meditation	Self	70
114	2016	Blue Velvet Revisited	Self	69
115	2016	Shadows of Paradise		45
116	2017	Rocksteppy	Himself	83
117	2017	David Lynch: The Art Life	Self	70
118	2017	The Black Ghiandola	Man In Black	70
119	2017	Lucky	Howard	73
120	2017	Plankton Salesmen	Self (archive footage)	0
121	2022	This Is Sparklehorse	Self	0
122	2024	Beatles '64	Self	65
123	2025	Encholalia	Self (Archive Footage)	0
124	2025	David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange	Self (archive footage)	0
125	2025	I Know Catherine, the Log Lady	Self	0
126	2025	The Making Of A Mockumentary	Himself (archive footage)	100
127	2025	David Lynch: A Hollywood Enigma	Self - Director	60
128	2025	Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com	himself	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1989	Cinéma, de notre temps	David Lynch	47
3	1990	Twin Peaks	Gordon Cole	83
4	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self	54
5	1997	Scene by Scene	Self	60
6	1998	Independent Focus	Self	90
7	1999	Family Guy	Gus (voice)	74
8	1999	Family Guy	David Lynch (voice)	74
9	2001	DumbLand	Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice)	63
10	2003	Un film et son époque	Self	100
11	2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self	70
12	2005	Robot Chicken	Mad Scientist (voice)	76
13	2006	Legends	Self	50
14	2009	The Cleveland Show		59
15	2010	Louie	Jack Dall	78
16	2017	The Nineties	Self (archive footage)	68
17	2021	This Is Pop	Self (archive footage)	58

David Lynch

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Television