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, incl ... uding 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.
2017
Sound Designer, Writer, Sound Mixer, Set Designer, Editor, Set Decoration, Music
2006
Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Camera Operator, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
1992
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Original Series Creator, Sound Designer, Writer, Characters
1977
Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Special Effects, Production Design, Editor, Art Direction, Sound Effects
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| Venice Film Festival | Best Director | Wild at Heart | Nominated |
Twin Peaks
as Gordon Cole
Episodes: 17
First Aired: Apr 08, 1990
DumbLand
as Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice)
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Dec 21, 2001
Louie
as Jack Dall
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 29, 2010
Robot Chicken
as Mad Scientist (voice)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 20, 2005
Family Guy
as Gus (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
as David Lynch (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 1999
The Cleveland Show
Episodes: 11
First Aired: Sep 27, 2009
Un film et son époque
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 17, 2003
The Oscars
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
This Is Pop
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 06, 2021
Independent Focus
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 1998
The Nineties
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 09, 2017
Leçon de Cinéma
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 20, 2004
Scene by Scene
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 10, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 25, 1992
Legends
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 17, 2006
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