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| Born | David Keith Lynch January 20, 1946 Missoula, Montana, U.S. |
| Died | January 16, 2025 (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Other names | Judas Booth |
| Alma mater | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (dropped out) |
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| Years active | 1967–2025 |
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| Spouses | Peggy Lentz
(m. 1968; div. 1974)Mary Fisk
(m. 1977; div. 1987)Emily Stofle
(m. 2009; sep. 2023) |
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| Children | 4, including Jennifer |
| Awards | Full list |
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David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time,[a] Lynch was often called a "visionary" and received acclaim for films distinguished by their surrealist and experimental qualities. In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 and an Academy Honorary Award in 2019.
Lynch studied painting and made short films before making his first feature, the independent body horror film Eraserhead (1977), which found success as a midnight movie. He earned critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980), the mystery thriller Blue Velvet (1986), and the neo-noir Mulholland Drive (2001). For his romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990), he received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera Dune (1984), the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the road movie The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental thriller Inland Empire (2006).
Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC surrealist horror-mystery series Twin Peaks (1990–1991), for which he received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including 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 a third season in 2017. His acting career included roles on Twin Peaks, The Cleveland Show (2010–2013), and Louie (2012), and in the films Lucky (2017) and The Fabelmans (2022). He directed music videos for Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails and Donovan, and commercials for Dior, YSL, Gucci and the New York City Department of Sanitation.
Lynch also worked as a musician, releasing solo albums, and as a furniture designer, cartoonist, animator, photographer, and author. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, he founded the David Lynch Foundation to fund meditation lessons for at-risk populations. A lifelong smoker, he died from complications of emphysema after being evacuated from his home due to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.[6]
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- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (January 16, 2025). "David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ^ Zacharek, Stephanie (January 16, 2025). "Why We're Lucky to Have Lived in the Age of David Lynch". Time. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ^ Brody, Richard (January 17, 2025). "How David Lynch Became an Icon of Cinema". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ^ Hammond, Pete (January 16, 2025). "David Lynch Appreciation: A Visionary For All Time". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 9, 2025.
- ^ Pulver, Andrew (January 16, 2025). "David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
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