David Lynch

Known For: Directing
Born: January 20, 1946
Place of Birth: Missoula, Montana, USA
Died: January 16, 2025

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 (198…

Filmography

Eyes Behind the Lens

2026 · Voice (Uncredited, Archive)

I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

2026 · Self

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

2026 · Self - Filmmaker

What Would David Lynch Do?

2026 · Self (Archived Footage)

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

2025

The Legend of the Happy Worker

2025 · Executive Producer

'Reverse' – Ferox Hall Taskmaster 2025

2025 · Original Story

The Making Of A Mockumentary

2025 · Himself (archive footage)

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

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

This Is Pop

2021 · Self (archive footage)

David Lynch: The Idea Dictates Everything

2021 · David Lynch

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

Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon

2017 · 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 Nineties

2017 · Self (archive footage)

The Black Ghiandola

2017 · Man In Black

David Lynch: The Art Life

2017 · Self

David Lynch: Insight

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

Land of Nothing

2015 · Executive Producer

Fire (Pożar)

2015 · Director

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

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

Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted

Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted

2013 · Director

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

20 Little Films

2012 · Director

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

2011 · Writer, Director

Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten

2011 · Himself

David Lynch in Oslo

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

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

Louie

2010 · Jack Dall

David Wants to Fly

2010 · Self

When Lynch Met Lucas

When Lynch Met Lucas

2010

The Cleveland Show

2009 · , Gus (voice)

The Peaceline Project

The Peaceline Project

2009 · Executive Producer

Red Fish

2009 · O Sábio

The Way of Samodelkin

2009 · Stranger in a dream

Interview Project

2009 · Creator

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, 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.

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

Legends

2006 · Self

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

2006 · Self

Robot Chicken

2005 · Mad Scientist (voice)

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

Leçon de Cinéma

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

Cabin Fever

2003 · Thanks

Return to Mulholland Drive

2003 · Self

Un film et son époque

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

Rabbits

2002 · Director, Writer, Creator

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

DumbLand

2001 · Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice), Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Animation, Creator

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

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

2001 · Self

One Morning All Over the World

2000 · Director

The Straight Story

1999 · Director, Sound Designer

In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

1999 · Self

Family Guy

1999 · Gus (voice), David Lynch (voice)

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

1998 · Self

Independent Focus

Independent Focus

1998 · Self

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

1997 · Self, Music, Still Photographer

Scene by Scene

1997 · Self

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

Hotel Room

1993 · Sound Designer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack

1992 · Music Producer, Creator, Lyricist

On the Air

1992 · Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Creator

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992 · Gordon Cole, Director, Writer, Original Series Creator, Sound Designer, Executive Producer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Characters

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992 · Self

The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

1991 · Executive Producer

The King of Ads

1991 · Director

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991 · Self

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

1990 · Self

American Chronicles

American Chronicles

1990 · Producer

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

1990 · Gordon Cole, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Story, Additional Editor, Sound Designer, Creator

Twin Peaks

1989 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer

Cinéma, de notre temps

1989 · David Lynch

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

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

Film '72

1971 · Self

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

The Oscars

1953 · Self

A Fall from Grace

— · William Tabb, Executive Producer

Snootworld

— · Writer

The Sea Behind Her Head

— · In Memory Of

Interview Project

Interview Project

— · Director

Hyena

— · Executive Producer

Lady Blue Shanghai

Lady Blue Shanghai

— · Director, Writer, Editor

Mulholland Dr.

— · Director, Writer, Creator

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