David Lynch
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.
Fotos
Películas (202)
6/11/26
2026 · Voiceover
Aprender a Caer
2026 · In Memory Of
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
2026 · Self
What Would David Lynch Do?
2026 · Self (Archived Footage)
Solitary
2025 · Thanks
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
The Legend of the Happy Worker
2025 · Executive Producer
Jack Paints It Red
2025 · Music
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Tríptico
2025 · Thanks
Beatles '64
2024 · Self
The Straight Story: On Set With David Lynch
2024 · Self
Straight Talking: A Making Of
2024 · Self
Lynch/Oz
2023 · Self (archival footage)
The Fabelmans
2022 · John Ford
This Is Sparklehorse
2022 · Self
The Other Me
2022 · Executive Producer
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
Faraway Eyes
2021 · Thanks
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Moby Doc
2021 · Self
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
2021 · Self
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
2020 · himself
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020 · Self
A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee
2019 · Executive Producer
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019 · Self
The Original Image - David Lynch
2019
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
2019 · Himself
Waiting for Mr. Lynch
2018 · Director, Writer, Producer
Ant Head
2018 · Music, Cinematography, Writer, Editor, Producer, Sound, Director
Curtains Up
2018
Why Are We Creative?
2018 · Self
The Polish Accountant
2017 · Self
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
2017 · Self
The Number of Completion
2017 · Self
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
2017 · Self
Tell It Martin
2017 · Self
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
2017 · Self
A Pot of Boiling Oil
2017 · Self
Two Blue Balls
2017 · Self
Behind the Red Curtain
2017 · Self
Bad Binoculars
2017 · Self
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
2017 · Self
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
2017 · Self
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
2017 · Self
WHAT DID JACK DO?
2017 · Detective, Director, Sound Mixer, Sound Designer, Set Decoration, Writer, Editor, Music, Set Designer
Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Lucky
2017 · Howard
Night Ride
2017 · Music
The Black Ghiandola
2017 · Man In Black
David Lynch: The Art Life
2017 · Self
David Lynch: Insight
2017 · Self
Girlfriend's Day
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Rocksteppy
2017 · Himself
Along for the Ride
2016 · Self
Kitsune
2016 · Thanks
Shadows of Paradise
2016
Blue Velvet Revisited
2016 · Self
Psychogenic Fugue
2016 · Creative Consultant
On Meditation
2016 · Self
The Reality of Truth
2016 · Self
Night Flight: Born Again
2016 · Self
The Music of David Lynch
2016 · Self
Rammstein in Amerika
2015 · Self
Land of Nothing
2015 · Executive Producer
Fire (Pożar)
2015 · Director, Writer
Brand: A Second Coming
2015 · Self
My Beautiful Broken Brain
2014 · Self, Executive Producer
Between Two Worlds
2014 · Self
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014 · Gordon Cole, Director, Editor, Writer, Characters, Sound Mixer
The 8th Floor
2014 · Self
It's a Beautiful World
2014 · Self
Duran Duran: Unstaged
2014 · Director
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
2014 · Self
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Self
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Self
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013 · Self
Professor Goudet's Lessons
2013 · Self
Idem Paris
2013 · Director
Memory Film
2012 · Director
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
2012 · Self, Writer
Side by Side
2012 · Self
Change Begins Within
2012 · Writer
20 Little Films
2012 · Director
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011 · Writer, Director
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
2011 · Himself
David Lynch in Oslo
2010 · Self
2012: Time for Change
2010 · Self
Brunes et Blondes
2010 · Self
Readymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima
2010 · Set Designer
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Director
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · Executive Producer
David Wants to Fly
2010 · Self
When Lynch Met Lucas
2010
The Peaceline Project
2009 · Executive Producer
Red Fish
2009 · O Sábio
The Way of Samodelkin
2009 · Stranger in a dream
Great Directors
2009 · Self
La Traversée du désir
2009 · Self
The Soul Detective
2009 · Himself
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
2008 · Self, Writer, Producer, Director
Early Experiments
2008 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Hollyshorts Greeting
2008 · Himself, Director
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
2008 · Self
Surveillance
2008 · Executive Producer
Critic
2008 · Self (voice)
The Sound of Lynch
2007
Ballerina
2007 · Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Director
A Slice of Lynch
2007 · Self
Lynch (one)
2007 · Self
Out Yonder — Chicken
2007 · Director
Lynch 2
2007 · Self
More Things That Happened
2007 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
2007 · Himself
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
2007 · himself, Director, Executive Producer
Inland Empire
2006 · Bucky J, the gaffer (voice), Editor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Camera Operator, Writer
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006 · Self
What Is It?
2005 · Thanks
David Lynch: 1985
2005 · Self
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
Bug Crawls
2004 · Director
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004 · Self
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
2004 · Self
Intervalometer Experiments
2004 · Director
Boat
2003 · The Man, Writer, Director
Does That Hurt You?
2003 · Self, Sound, Writer
Lamp
2003 · Self, Producer, Director of Photography, Director
Cabin Fever
2003 · Thanks
Return to Mulholland Drive
2003 · Self
Out Yonder — Teeth
2003 · Director
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003 · Self
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
2002 · Producer, Writer, Director
Industrial Soundscape
2002 · Director
Rabbits
2002 · Screenplay, Director
The Short Films of David Lynch
2002 · Self, Director, Writer, Producer, Sound Director
The Pig Walks
2002 · Writer, Cinematography, Producer, Editor, Director
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Darkened Room
2002 · Writer, Director, Cinematography, Producer, Editor
I Don't Know Jack
2002 · Self, Presenter
BlueBob Egg
2002 · Billy Groper, Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematography
Mysteries of Love
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
2002 · Director
Pierre and Sonny Jim
2002 · Director
Coyote #1
2002 · Producer, Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
Dead Mouse with Ants
2002 · Cinematography, Writer, Producer, Director
Steps
2002 · Director
Factory Mask
2001 · Writer, Producer, Cinematography, Director
Head with Hammer
2001 · Writer, Editor, Producer, Director
Sunset #1
2001 · Director
Eraserhead Stories
2001 · Self, Director
Mulholland Drive
2001 · Director, Writer, Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001 · Self
The Straight Story
1999 · Director, Sound Designer
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999 · Self
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997 · Self, Music, Still Photographer
Lost Highway
1997 · Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Director, Writer
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996 · Self
Lumière & Company
1995 · Self, Director
Nadja
1995 · Morgue Receptionist, Executive Producer
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
1995 · Director
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
1994 · Himself
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
1993 · Director
Made in the USA
1993 · Self
Twin Peaks: Log Lady Introductions
1993 · Director, Writer
Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack
1992 · Music Producer, Creator, Lyricist
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · Gordon Cole, Director, Writer, Original Series Creator, Sound Designer, Executive Producer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Characters
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1991 · Executive Producer
The King of Ads
1991 · Director
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991 · Self
Message to the Allied Forces
1991 · Gordon Cole/Self (Voice)
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990 · Self
Hollywood Mavericks
1990 · Self
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990 · Director, Producer, Music
Wild at Heart
1990 · Director, Screenplay
Twin Peaks
1989 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
1989 · Self
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988 · Director, Writer
The French as Seen by…
1988 · Director
Zelly & Me
1988 · Willie
No Frank in Lumberton
1988 · Self, Music
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988 · Self - Audience Member
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
1987 · Himself
Blue Velvet
1986 · Director, Writer, Lyricist
Dune
1984 · Spice Miner (uncredited), Screenplay, Director
Destination Dune
1983 · Self
The Elephant Man
1980 · Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Sound Designer
Heart Beat
1980 · Painter (uncredited)
Eraserhead
1977 · Special Effects, Original Music Composer, Editor, Art Direction, Production Design, Producer, Screenplay, Sound Effects, Director
The Amputee
1974 · The Nurse, Director, Producer, Writer
In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 · Set Painter
The Grandmother
1970 · Director, Animation, Script, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Producer, Writer
The Alphabet
1969 · Director, Sound, Writer, Animation, Director of Photography, Editor
Absurd Encounter with Fear
1967 · Director
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
1967 · Camera Operator, Director
Six Men Getting Sick
1967 · Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography, Animation
Snootworld
· Writer
A Fall from Grace
· Executive Producer
The Sea Behind Her Head
· In Memory Of
Interview Project
· Director
Hyena
· Executive Producer
Interior Dining Room Window
· Director, Sound, Producer
Series (24)
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026 · Self - Filmmaker
This Is Pop
2021 · Self (archive footage)
The Nineties
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Louie
2010 · Jack Dall
The Cleveland Show
2009 · Gus (voice)
Interview Project
2009 · Creator
Legends
2006 · Self
Robot Chicken
2005 · Mad Scientist (voice)
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · Self
Un film et son époque
2003 · Self
Rabbits
2002 · Director, Writer, Creator
DumbLand
2001 · Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice), Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Animation, Director, Creator
Padre de Familia
1999 · Gus (voice), David Lynch (voice)
Independent Focus
1998 · Self
Scene by Scene
1997 · Self
Hotel Room
1993 · Sound Designer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
On the Air
1992 · Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Creator
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self
American Chronicles
1990 · Producer
Twin Peaks
1990 · Gordon Cole, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Story, Additional Editor, Sound Designer, Creator
Cinéma, de notre temps
1989 · David Lynch
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Mulholland Dr.
· Director, Writer, Creator