Director
David Lynch
128 movies as actor · 68 as director
Born Jan 20, 1946 – Jan 16, 2025 (aged 78)From Missoula, Montana, USAAlso known as David Keith Lynch, DKL
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 Str…
Known for
Mulholland Drive
2001 · Thriller, Drama
The Elephant Man
1980 · Drama, History
Blue Velvet
1986 · Mystery, Thriller
Dune
1984 · Action, Sci-Fi
Lost Highway
1997 · Drama, Thriller
The Fabelmans
2022 · Drama
Eraserhead
1977 · Horror, Sci-Fi
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · Drama, Mystery
Wild at Heart
1990 · Crime, Thriller
The Straight Story
1999 · Drama, Adventure
Inland Empire
2006 · Horror, Thriller
Twin Peaks
1989 · Mystery, Drama
Movies directed by David Lynch
Interview Project
Interview Project
Upcoming
Interior Dining Room Window
Interior Dining Room Window
Upcoming
Waiting for Mr. Lynch
2018
Ant Head
2018
WHAT DID JACK DO?
2017
Fire (Pożar)
2015
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014
Duran Duran: Unstaged
2014
Idem Paris
2013
Memory Film
2012
20 Little Films
2012
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011
Interpol: I Touch a Red Button
2011
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Early Experiments
2008
Hollyshorts Greeting
2008
Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008
2008
Ballerina
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Out Yonder — Chicken
2007
More Things That Happened
2007
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
2007
Inland Empire
2006
Bug Crawls
2004
Intervalometer Experiments
2004
Boat
2003
Lamp
2003
Out Yonder — Teeth
2003
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
2002
Industrial Soundscape
2002
Rabbits
2002
The Pig Walks
2002
The Short Films of David Lynch
2002
Darkened Room
2002
BlueBob Egg
2002
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
2002
Pierre and Sonny Jim
2002
Dead Mouse with Ants
2002
Steps
2002
Coyote #1
2002
Factory Mask
2001
Head with Hammer
2001
Sunset #1
2001
Eraserhead Stories
2001
Mulholland Drive
2001
The Straight Story
1999
Lost Highway
1997
Lumière & Company
1995
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
1995
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
1993
Twin Peaks: Log Lady Introductions
1993
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
The King of Ads
1991
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990
Wild at Heart
1990
Twin Peaks
1989
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988
The French as Seen by…
1988
Blue Velvet
1986
Dune
1984
The Elephant Man
1980
Eraserhead
1977
The Amputee
1974
The Grandmother
1970
The Alphabet
1969
Absurd Encounter with Fear
1967
Six Men Getting Sick
1967
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
1967
David Lynch as actor
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
2026 · Self
What Would David Lynch Do?
2026 · Self (Archived Footage)
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and Strange
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Beatles '64
2024 · Self
Lynch/Oz
2023 · Self (archival footage)
The Fabelmans
2022 · John Ford
This Is Sparklehorse
2022 · Self
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
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
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019 · Self
The Original Image - David Lynch
2019
David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
2019 · Himself
Curtains Up
2018
Why Are We Creative?
2018 · Self
Tell It Martin
2017 · Self
The Polish Accountant
2017 · Self
The Number of Completion
2017 · Self
See You on the Other Side Dear Friend
2017 · Self
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
2017 · Self
Bad Binoculars
2017 · Self
Two Blue Balls
2017 · Self
A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks
2017 · Self
Behind the Red Curtain
2017 · Self
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
2017 · Self
I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun
2017 · Self
A Pot of Boiling Oil
2017 · Self
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
2017 · Self
WHAT DID JACK DO?
2017 · Detective
Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Lucky
2017 · Howard
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
Shadows of Paradise
2016
Blue Velvet Revisited
2016 · Self
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
Brand: A Second Coming
2015 · Self
My Beautiful Broken Brain
2014 · Self
Between Two Worlds
2014 · Self
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014 · Gordon Cole
The 8th Floor
2014 · Self
It's a Beautiful World
It's a Beautiful World
2014 · Self
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
Memory Film
2012
Meditation, Creativity, Peace
2012 · Self
Side by Side
2012 · Self
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
David Wants to Fly
2010 · Self
When Lynch Met Lucas
When Lynch Met Lucas
2010
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
Hollyshorts Greeting
2008 · Himself
Early Experiments
2008
Elvis | Viva Las Vegas
2008 · Self
Critic
2008 · Self (voice)
The Sound of Lynch
2007
A Slice of Lynch
2007 · Self
Lynch (one)
2007 · Self
Out Yonder — Chicken
2007
Lynch 2
2007 · Self
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L
Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
2007 · Himself
Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com
2007 · himself
Inland Empire
2006 · Bucky J, the gaffer (voice)
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006 · Self
David Lynch: 1985
2005 · Self
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004 · Self
The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
2004 · Self
Boat
2003 · The Man
Does That Hurt You?
2003 · Self
Lamp
2003 · Self
Return to Mulholland Drive
2003 · Self
Out Yonder — Teeth
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003 · Self
The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed
2002
The Short Films of David Lynch
2002 · Self
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
I Don't Know Jack
2002 · Self
BlueBob Egg
2002 · Billy Groper
Mysteries of Love
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy
2002
Eraserhead Stories
2001 · Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001 · Self
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
1999 · Self
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997 · Self
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996 · Self
Lumière & Company
1995 · Self
Nadja
1995 · Morgue Receptionist
Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff
1994 · Himself
Made in the USA
1993 · Self
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · Gordon Cole
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
Hollywood Mavericks
1990 · Self
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
1989 · Self
Zelly & Me
1988 · Willie
No Frank in Lumberton
1988 · Self
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988 · Self - Audience Member
Ruth, Roses, and Revolver
1987 · Himself
Dune
1984 · Spice Miner (uncredited)
Destination Dune
1983 · Self
The Elephant Man
1980 · Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)
Heart Beat
1980 · Painter (uncredited)
The Amputee
1974 · The Nurse
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler
1967
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