David Lynch

David Lynch

Directing

Born January 20, 1946 · Missoula, Montana, USA

77 films as director · Active 1967–2018

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 t…

Known for

Family Guy

Family Guy

1999

Family Guy

Family Guy

1999

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

1990

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

2005

The Cleveland Show

The Cleveland Show

2009

The Cleveland Show

Directed(77)

Ant Head

2018Ant Head★ 5.2

Waiting for Mr. Lynch

2018Waiting for Mr. Lynch★ 6.5

WHAT DID JACK DO?

2017WHAT DID JACK DO?★ 6.3

Fire (Pożar)

2015Fire (Pożar)★ 6.5

Duran Duran: Unstaged

2014Duran Duran: Unstaged★ 7.5

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

2014Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces★ 7.2

Idem Paris

2013Idem Paris★ 5.7

Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted

2013Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted★ 3.0

20 Little Films

201220 Little Films

Memory Film

2012Memory Film★ 5.6

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

2011Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage★ 7.0

42 One Dream Rush

201042 One Dream Rush★ 5.0

Early Experiments

2008Early Experiments★ 6.4

Hollyshorts Greeting

2008Hollyshorts Greeting★ 7.5

Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

2008Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008★ 6.3

More Things That Happened

2007More Things That Happened★ 6.2

To Each His Own Cinema

2007To Each His Own Cinema★ 6.5

Ballerina

2007Ballerina★ 6.1

Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com

2007Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com★ 5.5

Out Yonder — Chicken

2007Out Yonder — Chicken★ 5.8

Inland Empire

2006Inland Empire★ 7.0

Bug Crawls

2004Bug Crawls★ 6.0

Intervalometer Experiments

2004Intervalometer Experiments★ 4.4

Boat

2003Boat★ 5.4

Lamp

2003Lamp★ 4.8

Out Yonder — Teeth

2003Out Yonder — Teeth★ 6.2

Rabbits

2002Rabbits★ 6.7

BlueBob Egg

2002BlueBob Egg★ 3.4

Darkened Room

2002Darkened Room★ 5.5

Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy

2002Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy★ 6.2

Pierre and Sonny Jim

2002Pierre and Sonny Jim★ 4.4

Industrial Soundscape

2002Industrial Soundscape★ 5.6

The Pig Walks

2002The Pig Walks★ 4.4

Dead Mouse with Ants

2002Dead Mouse with Ants★ 4.4

The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed

2002The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed★ 6.2

Steps

2002Steps★ 5.4

Coyote #1

2002Coyote #1★ 5.4

The Short Films of David Lynch

2002The Short Films of David Lynch★ 5.8

Mulholland Drive

2001Mulholland Drive★ 7.8

Eraserhead Stories

2001Eraserhead Stories★ 7.3

Sunset #1

2001Sunset #1★ 5.0

Head with Hammer

2001Head with Hammer★ 4.4

Factory Mask

2001Factory Mask★ 4.8

One Morning All Over the World

2000One Morning All Over the World★ 4.7

The Straight Story

1999The Straight Story★ 7.7

Lost Highway

1997Lost Highway★ 7.5

Lumière & Company

1995Lumière & Company★ 6.3

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

1995Premonitions Following an Evil Deed★ 6.1

Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films

1993Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films★ 8.2

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me★ 7.4

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack

1992Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack★ 10.0

The King of Ads

1991The King of Ads★ 4.3

Wild at Heart

1990Wild at Heart★ 7.0

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted

1990Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted★ 6.0

Twin Peaks

1989Twin Peaks★ 8.5

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

1988The Cowboy and the Frenchman★ 6.0

The French as Seen by…

1988The French as Seen by…★ 6.9

Blue Velvet

1986Blue Velvet★ 7.6

Dune

1984Dune★ 6.2

The Elephant Man

1980The Elephant Man★ 8.0

Eraserhead

1977Eraserhead★ 7.3

The Amputee

1974The Amputee★ 5.1

The Grandmother

1970The Grandmother★ 6.6

The Alphabet

1969The Alphabet★ 6.5

Six Men Getting Sick

1967Six Men Getting Sick★ 5.5

Absurd Encounter with Fear

1967Absurd Encounter with Fear★ 5.3

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

1967Sailing with Bushnell Keeler★ 5.6

—Interview Project

—Lady Blue Shanghai★ 5.5

Acting(151)

2026Eyes Behind the LensVoice (Uncredited, Archive)

2026I Know Catherine, the Log LadySelf

2026Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!Self - Filmmaker

David Lynch — Watchpile | Watchpile

The Cleveland Show

2009

The Oscars

The Oscars

1953

2026What Would David Lynch Do?Self (Archived Footage)

2025The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

2025The Making Of A MockumentaryHimself (archive footage)

2025David Lynch: A Remembrance Both Wonderful and StrangeSelf (archive footage)

2024Beatles '64Self

2023Lynch/OzSelf (archival footage)

2022The FabelmansJohn Ford

2022This Is SparklehorseSelf

2021The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making DuneSelf (voice) (archive footage)

2021Morceaux de Cannes

2021Moby DocSelf

2021Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer HouseSelf

2021This Is PopSelf (archive footage)

2021David Lynch: The Idea Dictates EverythingDavid Lynch

2020David Lynch: The Virtual Lifehimself

2020Meeting the Beatles in IndiaSelf

2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic SoundSelf

2019The Original Image - David Lynch

2019David Lynch Teaches Creativity and FilmHimself

2018Curtains Up

2018Why Are We Creative?Self

2017Twin Peaks: The PhenomenonSelf

2017Tell It MartinSelf

2017The Polish AccountantSelf

2017The Number of CompletionSelf

2017See You on the Other Side Dear FriendSelf

2017Do Not Pick Up HitchhikersSelf

2017Bad BinocularsSelf

2017Two Blue BallsSelf

2017A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin PeaksSelf

2017Behind the Red CurtainSelf

2017A Bloody Finger in Your MouthSelf

2017I Had Bad Milk in DehradunSelf

2017A Pot of Boiling OilSelf

2017The Man with the Gray Elevated HairSelf

2017WHAT DID JACK DO?Detective

2017Plankton SalesmenSelf (archive footage)

2017LuckyHoward

2017The NinetiesSelf (archive footage)

2017The Black GhiandolaMan In Black

2017David Lynch: The Art LifeSelf

2017David Lynch: InsightSelf

2017Girlfriend's DayNarrator (voice)

2017RocksteppyHimself

2016Along for the RideSelf

2016Shadows of Paradise

2016Blue Velvet RevisitedSelf

2016On MeditationSelf

2016The Reality of TruthSelf

2016Night Flight: Born AgainSelf

2016The Music of David LynchSelf

2015Rammstein in AmerikaSelf

2015Brand: A Second ComingSelf

2014My Beautiful Broken BrainSelf

2014Between Two WorldsSelf

2014Twin Peaks: The Missing PiecesGordon Cole

2014The 8th FloorSelf

2014It's a Beautiful WorldSelf

2014Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and LoveSelf

2013Harry Dean Stanton: Partly FictionSelf

2013What Is Cinema?Self

2013Mel Brooks: Make a NoiseSelf

2013Professor Goudet's LessonsSelf

2012Memory Film

2012Meditation, Creativity, PeaceSelf

2012Side by SideSelf

2011Ångesthunden och Malmö under vattenHimself

2010David Lynch in OsloSelf

20102012: Time for ChangeSelf

2010Brunes et BlondesSelf

2010LouieJack Dall

2010David Wants to FlySelf

2010When Lynch Met Lucas

2009The Cleveland Show

2009Red FishO Sábio

2009The Way of SamodelkinStranger in a dream

2009Great DirectorsSelf

2009La Traversée du désirSelf

2009The Soul DetectiveHimself

2008Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008Self

2008Hollyshorts GreetingHimself

2008Early Experiments

2008Elvis | Viva Las VegasSelf

2008CriticSelf (voice)

2007The Sound of Lynch

2007A Slice of LynchSelf

2007Lynch (one)Self

2007Out Yonder — Chicken

2007Lynch 2Self

2007Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.Himself

2007Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.comhimself

2006Inland EmpireBucky J, the gaffer (voice)

2006LegendsSelf

2006Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the MainstreamSelf

2005Robot ChickenMad Scientist (voice)

2005David Lynch: 1985Self

2004Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

2004Dennis Hopper: The Decisive MomentsSelf

2004The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’Self

2004Leçon de CinémaSelf

2003BoatThe Man

2003Does That Hurt You?Self

2003Return to Mulholland DriveSelf

2003Un film et son époqueSelf

2003Out Yonder — Teeth

2003Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)Self

2002The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed

2002The Short Films of David LynchSelf

2002Heart of the FestivalSelf (archive footage)

2002I Don't Know JackSelf

2002BlueBob EggBilly Groper

2002Mysteries of LoveSelf (archive footage)

2002Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy

2001DumbLandRandy / Wife / Sparky (voice)

2001Eraserhead StoriesSelf

2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie MogulSelf

1999In Dreams: The Roy Orbison StorySelf

1999Family GuyGus (voice)

1998The A-Z of Separating People from their MoneySelf

1998Independent FocusSelf

1997Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David LynchSelf

1997Scene by SceneSelf

1996The Fine Art of Separating People from Their MoneySelf

1995Lumière & CompanySelf

1995NadjaMorgue Receptionist

1994Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo StuffHimself

1993Made in the USASelf

1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with MeGordon Cole

1992The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSelf

1991Crazy About the Movies: Dennis HopperSelf

1990Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David LynchSelf

1990Hollywood MavericksSelf

1990Twin PeaksGordon Cole

1989Cinéma, de notre tempsDavid Lynch

1989David Lynch: Don't Look at MeSelf

1988Zelly & MeWillie

1988No Frank in LumbertonSelf

1988Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White NightSelf - Audience Member

1987Ruth, Roses, and RevolverHimself

1984DuneSpice Miner (uncredited)

1983Destination DuneSelf

1980The Elephant ManMan in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)

1980Heart BeatPainter (uncredited)

1974The AmputeeThe Nurse

1971Film '72Self

1967Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

1953The OscarsSelf