David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, actor, and writer. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences. Moving around various parts of the United States as a child within his middle class family, Lynch went on to study painting in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films. First, the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was highly critically acclaimed. Proceeding to create his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1992), he also created a cinematic prequel, Fire Walk With Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his following films worked on "dream logic" non-linear narrative structures, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006). Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for his films The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man. Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as "the most important director of this era". Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", whilst the success of his films have led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
David Lynch: 1985
(Self)
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
(Self - Audience Member)
Zelly & Me
(Willie)
I Don't Know Jack
(Self)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
(Self)
Destination Dune
(Self)
The Amputee
(Nurse)
The Fabelmans
(John Ford)
Inland Empire
(Bucky J)
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
(Himself)
Side by Side
(Self)
Mysteries of Love
(Self (archive footage))
Lynch/Oz
(Self (archive footage))
The Way of Samodelkin
(Stranger in a dream)
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
(Self)
Nadja
(Morgue Receptionist)
Curtains Up
Eraserhead Stories
(Self)
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
(Self)
Night Flight: Born Again
(Self)
BlueBob Egg
(Billy Groper)
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
(Self)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
(Gordon Cole)
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
(Self)
Edge of Outside
(Self (archive footage))
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
(Himself)
The Soul Detective
(Himself)
Boat
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
(Self)
Brand: A Second Coming
(Self)
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
(Self)
It's a Beautiful World
(Self)
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
(Self)
Plankton Salesmen
(Self (archive footage))
No Frank in Lumberton
(Self)
Made in the USA
(Self)
The Elephant Man
(Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited))
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
This Is Sparklehorse
(Self)
What Is Cinema?
(Self)
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
(Self)
My Beautiful Broken Brain
(Self)
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
(himself)
Lucky
(Howard)
David Lynch: The Art Life
(Self)
Blue Velvet Revisited
(Self)
Shadows of Paradise
On Meditation
(Self)
Heart Beat
(Painter)
The Music of David Lynch
(Self)
Great Directors
(Self)
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
(Self)
A Slice of Lynch
(Self)
Le son de Lynch
The Short Films of David Lynch
(Self)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Chief Gordon Cole)
Lynch (one)
(Self)
Lynch 2
(Self)
The Black Ghiandola
(Man In Black)
2012: Time for Change
(Self)
David Wants to Fly
Lamp
(Self)
La Traversée du désir
(Self)
Rocksteppy
(Himself)
Along for the Ride
(Self)
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
(Self)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Detective)
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
(Self)
Early Experiments
Out Yonder — Chicken
Out Yonder — Teeth
Hollyshorts Greeting
(Himself)
Dune
(Spice Miner (uncredited))
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
(Himself)
The 8th Floor
(Self)
Between Two Worlds
(Self)
Meditation Creativity Peace
(Self)
Girlfriend's Day
(Narrator (voice))
Memory Film
Peixe Vermelho
(O Sábio)
Hollywood Mavericks
(Self)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
(Self)
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
(Self)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
(Self)
Crítico
(Self (voice))
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
(Self)
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
(Himself)
The Reality of Truth
(Self)
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
(Self)
Professor Goudet's Lessons
(Self)
When Lynch Met Lucas
Rammstein in Amerika
(Self)
Does That Hurt You?
(Self)
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
(Himself)
Brunes et Blondes
(Self)
Meeting the Beatles in India
(Self)
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
(Self)
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
L'Image Originelle - David Lynch
Moby Doc
(Self)
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
(Self)
The Polish Accountant
(Self)
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
(Self)
The Number of Completion
(Self)
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
(Self)
Tell It Martin
(Self)
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
(Self)
A Pot of Boiling Oil
(Self)
Two Blue Balls
(Self)
Behind the Red Curtain
(Self)
Bad Binoculars
(Self)
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
(Self)
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
(Self)
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
(Self)
A Fall from Grace
(William Tabb)
Tell It Martin
(Himself)
Two Blue Balls
(Himself)
The Number of Completion
(Himself)
Bad Binoculars
(Himself)
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
(Himself)
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
(Himself)
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
(Himself)
The Polish Accountant
(Himself)
A Pot of Boiling Oil
(Himself)
Beatles '64
(Self)
Family Guy
(Gus (voice))
Un film et son époque
(Self)
The Cleveland Show
The Oscars
(Self)
This Is Pop
(Self (archive footage))
Louie
(Jack Dall)
Family Guy
(David Lynch (voice))
Independent Focus
(Self)
Twin Peaks
(Gordon Cole)
The Nineties
(Self (archive footage))
Leçon de Cinéma
(Self)
Scene by Scene
(Self)
Robot Chicken
(Mad scientist)
DumbLand
(Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice))
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(Self)
Legends
(Self)
Eraserhead
(Special Effects)
Eraserhead
(Original Music Composer)
Eraserhead
(Editor)
Eraserhead
(Art Direction)
The Straight Story
(Director)
Eraserhead
(Production Design)
Mulholland Drive
(Director)
Eraserhead
(Producer)
Eraserhead
(Screenplay)
Mulholland Drive
(Writer)
Wild at Heart
(Director)
Wild at Heart
(Screenplay)
Lost Highway
(Sound Designer)
Lost Highway
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Lost Highway
(Director)
Inland Empire
(Editor)
Inland Empire
(Director)
Inland Empire
(Producer)
Inland Empire
(Director of Photography)
Inland Empire
(Screenplay)
Blue Velvet
(Director)
Blue Velvet
(Screenplay)
Dune
(Screenplay)
Dune
(Director)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Director)
The Elephant Man
(Screenplay)
The Elephant Man
(Director)
Surveillance
(Executive Producer)
More Things That Happened
(Director)
More Things That Happened
(Writer)
Crumb
(Producer)
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
(Producer)
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
(Writer)
Nadja
(Executive Producer)
To Each His Own Cinema
(Director)
Rabbits
(Screenplay)
Rabbits
(Director)
The Grandmother
(Director)
The Short Films of David Lynch
(Writer)
The Short Films of David Lynch
(Director)
The Short Films of David Lynch
(Screenplay)
BlueBob Egg
(Writer)
BlueBob Egg
(Director)
The Alphabet
(Director)
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
(Director)
Lumière & Company
(Director)
Boat
(Writer)
Boat
(Director)
Six Men Getting Sick
(Director)
The Amputee
(Director)
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
(Director)
Darkened Room
(Writer)
Darkened Room
(Director)
Eraserhead Stories
(Director)
Idem Paris
(Director)
Blue Green
(Director)
Absurd Encounter with Fear
(Director)
Mulholland Dr.
(Director)
Mulholland Dr.
(Writer)
Bug Crawls
(Director)
Cabin Fever
(Thanks)
Duran Duran: Unstaged
(Director)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
(Director)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
(Editor)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
(Writer)
Ballerina
(Director)
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
(Camera Operator)
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
(Director)
Lost Highway
(Writer)
Lamp
(Producer)
Lamp
(Director of Photography)
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
(Producer)
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
(Executive Producer)
Eraserhead
(Sound Effects)
The French as Seen by…
(Director)
Kitsune
(Thanks)
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
(Director)
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
(Director)
The Elephant Man
(Sound Designer)
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
(Writer)
The Alphabet
(Sound)
The Alphabet
(Writer)
Sunset
(Director)
Psychogenic Fugue
(Creative Consultant)
20 Little Films
(Director)
A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee
(Executive Producer)
Faraway Eyes
(Thanks)
Snootworld
(Writer)
Snootworld
(Producer)
What Is It?
(Thanks)
The Grandmother
(Animation)
The Grandmother
(Script)
The Grandmother
(Screenplay)
The Grandmother
(Camera Operator)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
(Music)
Mulholland Dr.
(Executive Producer)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Writer)
Early Experiments
(Director of Photography)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Original Series Creator)
More Things That Happened
(Director of Photography)
Pierre and Sonny Jim
(Director)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Sound Designer)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Executive Producer)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
The Straight Story
(Sound Designer)
Mulholland Drive
(Sound Designer)
Inland Empire
(Sound Designer)
Lamp
(Director)
Ant Head
(Music)
Industrial Soundscape
(Director)
Intervalometer Experiments
(Director)
One Morning All Over the World
(Director)
Six Men Getting Sick
(Producer)
Head with Hammer
(Writer)
Head with Hammer
(Editor)
The Amputee
(Producer)
The Grandmother
(Producer)
Head with Hammer
(Producer)
The Grandmother
(Writer)
Darkened Room
(Cinematography)
Coyote
(Producer)
Darkened Room
(Producer)
Dead Mouse with Ants
(Cinematography)
Dead Mouse with Ants
(Writer)
Factory Mask
(Writer)
Coyote
(Cinematography)
Factory Mask
(Producer)
Factory Mask
(Cinematography)
Dead Mouse with Ants
(Producer)
The Pig Walks
(Writer)
Ballerina
(Writer)
The Pig Walks
(Cinematography)
BlueBob Egg
(Producer)
The Pig Walks
(Producer)
The Pig Walks
(Editor)
Ant Head
(Cinematography)
Ballerina
(Producer)
Ant Head
(Writer)
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
(Writer)
Ant Head
(Editor)
BlueBob Egg
(Cinematography)
Ballerina
(Cinematography)
Ant Head
(Producer)
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
(Producer)
In Pursuit of Treasure
(Set Painter)
Does That Hurt You?
(Sound)
Readymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima
(Set Designer)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
(Still Photographer)
Tríptico
(Thanks)
42 One Dream Rush
(Director)
Night Ride
(Music)
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
(Music)
No Frank in Lumberton
(Music)
Land of Nothing
(Executive Producer)
The Peaceline Project
(Executive Producer)
The Happy Worker
(Executive Producer)
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
(Director)
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
(Executive Producer)
The King of Ads
(Director)
Head with Hammer
(Director)
Dead Mouse with Ants
(Director)
The Pig Walks
(Director)
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
(Director)
Early Experiments
(Director)
Out Yonder — Chicken
(Director)
Hollyshorts Greeting
(Director)
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
(Director)
Out Yonder — Teeth
(Director)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Director)
Inland Empire
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Inland Empire
(Camera Operator)
Steps
(Director)
Mulholland Drive
(Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
I Don't Know Jack
(Presenter)
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
(Writer)
Ant Head
(Sound)
Ant Head
(Director)
Memory Film
(Director)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Sound Mixer)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Sound Designer)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Set Decoration)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Writer)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Editor)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Music)
WHAT DID JACK DO?
(Set Designer)
Meditation Creativity Peace
(Writer)
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
(Director)
The Amputee
(Writer)
Twin Peaks
(Director)
Twin Peaks
(Writer)
Does That Hurt You?
(Writer)
Eraserhead
(Director)
Early Experiments
(Writer)
Early Experiments
(Editor)
Early Experiments
(Producer)
The Other Me
(Executive Producer)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(Executive Producer)
More Things That Happened
(Editor)
Meditation Creativity Peace
(Director)
The Alphabet
(Animation)
The Alphabet
(Director of Photography)
My Beautiful Broken Brain
(Executive Producer)
Coyote
(Editor)
Coyote
(Director)
Coyote
(Writer)
Factory Mask
(Director)
Twin Peaks
(Executive Producer)
A Fall from Grace
(Executive Producer)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(Characters)
Dangerous: The Short Films
(Director)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
(Characters)
Fire
(Director)
On the Air
(Director)
On the Air
(Writer)
Twin Peaks
(Writer)
Twin Peaks
(Director)
Twin Peaks
(Executive Producer)
Twin Peaks
(Story)
DumbLand
(Writer)
DumbLand
(Director)
Hotel Room
(Executive Producer)
Hotel Room
(Sound Designer)
Twin Peaks
(Sound Designer)
Twin Peaks
(Additional Editor)
Hotel Room
(Director)
On the Air
(Executive Producer)
DumbLand
(Producer)
Twin Peaks
(Creator)
On the Air
(Creator)
American Chronicles
(Creator)
Hotel Room
(Creator)
DumbLand
(Creator)
Interview Project
(Creator)