David Lynch

Also Known As: 데이빗 린치, デイヴィッド・リンチ, دیوید لینچ

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.

Department: Directing

Place of Birth: Missoula, Montana, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: January 20, 1946

Age: 79 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: January 15, 2025

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Known For:

David Lynch: 1985
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Zelly & Me
I Don't Know Jack
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Destination Dune
The Amputee
The Fabelmans
Inland Empire
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
Side by Side
Mysteries of Love
Lynch/Oz
The Way of Samodelkin
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Nadja
Curtains Up
Eraserhead Stories
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
Night Flight: Born Again
BlueBob Egg
Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Edge of Outside
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
The Soul Detective
Boat
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Brand: A Second Coming
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
It's a Beautiful World
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Plankton Salesmen
No Frank in Lumberton
Made in the USA
The Elephant Man
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
This Is Sparklehorse
What Is Cinema?
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
Lucky
David Lynch: The Art Life
Blue Velvet Revisited
Shadows of Paradise
On Meditation
Heart Beat
The Music of David Lynch
Great Directors
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
A Slice of Lynch
The Sound of Lynch
The Short Films of David Lynch
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lynch (one)
Lynch 2
2012: Time for Change
The Black Ghiandola
David Wants to Fly
Lamp
La Traversée du désir
Rocksteppy
Along for the Ride
WHAT DID JACK DO?
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Out Yonder — Teeth
Out Yonder — Chicken
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
Hollyshorts Greeting
Early Experiments
Dune
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
The 8th Floor
Between Two Worlds
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Girlfriend's Day
Memory Film
Red Fish
Hollywood Mavericks
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Critic
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
The Reality of Truth
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
Professor Goudet's Lessons
When Lynch Met Lucas
Rammstein in Amerika
Does That Hurt You?
Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten
Brunes et Blondes
Meeting the Beatles in India
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House
L'Image Originelle - David Lynch
Moby Doc
Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love
Tell It Martin
The Polish Accountant
The Number of Completion
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
Bad Binoculars
Two Blue Balls
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
Behind the Red Curtain
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
A Pot of Boiling Oil
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
A Fall from Grace
Beatles '64
David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
Return to Mulholland Drive
Encholalia
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
The Making Of A Mockumentary
Why Are We Creative?
PlayStation 2: The Third Place
David Lynch: The Virtual Life
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa