David Keith Lynch was born on January 20,1946 and is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor.
109 Facts About David Lynch
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David Lynch has received numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019.
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David Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s.
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David Lynch received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive.
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David Lynch portrayed Gordon Cole in the Twin Peaks projects.
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David Lynch has written the books Images, Catching the Big Fish, and Room to Dream.
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David Lynch 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.
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David Keith Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20,1946.
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David Lynch's father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the US Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina "Sunny" Lynch, was an English language tutor.
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David Lynch adjusted to this transitory early life with relative ease, noting that he usually had no issue making new friends whenever he started attending a new school.
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Alongside his schooling, David Lynch joined the Boy Scouts, although he later said he only "became [a Scout] so I could quit and put it behind me".
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David Lynch rose to the highest rank of Eagle Scout.
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David Lynch was interested in painting and drawing from an early age, and became intrigued by the idea of pursuing it as a career path when living in Virginia, where his friend's father was a professional painter.
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At Francis C Hammond High School in Alexandria, Lynch did not excel academically, having little interest in schoolwork, but he was popular with other students, and after leaving he decided that he wanted to study painting at college.
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David Lynch began his studies at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC, before transferring in 1964 to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he was roommates with musician Peter Wolf.
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Back in the United States, David Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he stayed with his friend Toby Keeler for a while.
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David Lynch decided to move to Philadelphia and enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, after advice from Fisk, who was already enrolled there.
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At the Pennsylvania Academy, David Lynch made his first short film, Six Men Getting Sick.
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David Lynch had first come up with the idea when he developed a wish to see his paintings move, and he began discussing doing animation with an artist named Bruce Samuelson.
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When this project never came about, David Lynch decided to work on a film alone, and purchased the cheapest 16mm camera that he could find.
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AFI dean Frank Daniel asked David Lynch to reconsider, believing that he was one of the school's best students.
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David Lynch agreed on the condition that he could create a project that would not be interfered with.
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Eraserhead was planned to be about 42 minutes long, its script was only 21 pages, and David Lynch was able to create the film without interference.
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David Lynch was then supported by a loan from his father and money that he earned from a paper route that he took up, delivering The Wall Street Journal.
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In 1977, David Lynch married Mary Fisk, sister of Jack Fisk.
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David Lynch has said that not a single reviewer of the film understood it in the way he intended.
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David Lynch proposed that he make The Amputee to present to AFI to test two different types of film stock.
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David Lynch tried to get it entered into the Cannes Film Festival, but while some reviewers liked it, others felt it was awful, and it was not selected for screening.
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David Lynch was very supportive of the movie, helping to distribute it around the United States in 1977, and Eraserhead subsequently became popular on the midnight movie underground circuit, and was later called one of the most important midnight movies of the 1970s, along with El Topo, Pink Flamingos, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Harder They Come and Night of the Living Dead.
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David Lynch wanted to make some alterations that would alter the story from true events but in his view make a better plot, but he needed Mel Brooks's permission, as Brooks's company, Brooksfilms, was responsible for production.
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David Lynch declined, saying that he had "next door to zero interest" and arguing that Lucas should direct the film himself as the movie should reflect his own vision, not David Lynch's.
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Soon, the opportunity to direct another big-budget science fiction epic arose when Dino de Laurentiis of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group asked David Lynch to create a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel Dune.
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David Lynch agreed, and in doing so was contractually obliged to produce two other works for the company.
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David Lynch set about writing a script based upon the novel, initially with both Chris de Vore and Eric Bergren, and then alone when De Laurentiis was unhappy with their ideas.
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David Lynch helped build some of the sets, attempting to create "a certain look", and particularly enjoyed building the set for the oil planet Giedi Prime, for which he used "steel, bolts, and porcelain".
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David Lynch objected to the changes and had his name struck from the extended cut, which has Alan Smithee credited as the director and "Judas Booth" as the screenwriter.
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Around this time David Lynch became interested in photography as an art form, and traveled to northern England to photograph the degrading industrial landscape.
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David Lynch was contractually still obliged to produce two other projects for De Laurentiis, the first a planned sequel to Dune, which due to the film's failure never went beyond the script stage.
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The other was a more personal work, based on a script David Lynch had been working on for some time.
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David Lynch has called the story "a dream of strange desires wrapped inside a mystery story".
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David Lynch included pop songs from the 1960s in the film, including Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" and Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet", the latter of which largely inspired the film.
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David Lynch had found success with The Elephant Man, but Blue Velvets controversy with audiences and critics introduced him into the mainstream, and it became a huge critical and moderate commercial success.
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David Lynch appeared in several episodes as FBI agent Gordon Cole.
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David Lynch, who disliked the direction that writers and directors took in the later episodes, directed the final episode.
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David Lynch produced a 50-minute video of the performance in 1990.
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David Lynch has said the film is about "the loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion and devastation of the victim of incest".
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David Lynch CIBY-2000 financed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and most of the TV series' cast reprised their roles, though some refused and many were unenthusiastic about the project.
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In 1993, David Lynch collaborated with Japanese musician Yoshiki on the video for X Japan's song "Longing ~Setsubou no Yoru~".
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David Lynch received his third Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
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David Lynch has called Inland Empire "a mystery about a woman in trouble".
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In 2009, David Lynch had plans to direct a documentary on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi consisting of interviews with people who knew him, but nothing has come of it.
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In 2010, David Lynch began making guest appearances on the Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show as Gus the Bartender.
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David Lynch had been convinced to appear in the show by its lead actor, Mike Henry, a fan of Lynch who felt that his whole life had changed after seeing Wild at Heart.
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David Lynch directed a concert by English new wave band Duran Duran on March 23,2011.
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On June 28,2013, a video David Lynch directed for the Nine Inch Nails song "Came Back Haunted" was released.
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David Lynch did photography for the Dumb Numbers' self-titled album released in August 2013.
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On October 6,2014, David Lynch confirmed via Twitter that he and Frost would start shooting a new, nine-episode season of Twin Peaks in 2015, with the episodes expected to air in 2016 on Showtime.
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Showtime CEO David Nevins confirmed this, announcing that Lynch would direct every episode of the revival and that the original nine episodes had been extended to 18.
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David Lynch did not deny the possibility of another season, but said that if it were to happen, it would not air before 2021.
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David Lynch did weather reports on his-defunct website in the 2000s.
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In June 2020, David Lynch rereleased his 2002 web series Rabbits on YouTube.
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In February 2022, it was announced that David Lynch had been cast in the Steven Spielberg film The Fabelmans in a role Variety called at the time "a closely guarded secret", later revealed to be that of real-life film director John Ford, whose famous encounter with Spielberg is dramatized in the film's final moments.
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In 2021 it was announced that David Lynch was working on a new project for Netflix under the working titles Wisteria and Unrecorded Night.
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David Lynch was set to write and direct 13 episodes with an $85 million budget.
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David Lynch has said his work is more similar to that of European filmmakers than American ones, and that most films that "get down and thrill your soul" are by European directors.
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David Lynch has said that Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is one of his favorite pictures, as are Kubrick's Lolita, Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Hitchcock's Rear Window, and Herzog's Stroszek.
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David Lynch has cited Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls and Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End as influences on his work.
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David Lynch tends to feature his leading female actors in "split" roles, so that many of his female characters have multiple, fractured identities.
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David Lynch is widely noted for his collaborations with various production artists and composers on his films and other productions.
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David Lynch first trained as a painter, and although he is better known as a filmmaker, he has continued to paint.
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David Lynch is represented by Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles, and has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings, and photography with the gallery since 2011.
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David Lynch has been involved in a number of music projects, many of them related to his films, including sound design for some of his films.
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David Lynch worked on the 1998 Jocelyn Montgomery album Lux Vivens, The Music of Hildegard von Bingen.
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David Lynch composed music for Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Drive, and Rabbits.
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David Lynch plays "upside down and backwards, like a lap guitar", and relies heavily on effects pedals.
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In November 2010, David Lynch released two electropop music singles, "Good Day Today" and "I Know", through the independent British label Sunday Best Recordings.
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All or most of the songs for Crazy Clown Time were put into art-music videos, David Lynch directing the title song's video.
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On September 29,2011, David Lynch released This Train with vocalist and long-time musical collaborator Chrysta Bell on the La Rose Noire label.
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For Record Store Day 2014, David Lynch released The Big Dream Remix EP which featured four songs from his album remixed by various artists.
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In May 2019, David Lynch provided guest vocals on the track Fire is Coming by Flying Lotus.
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David Lynch co-wrote the track that appears on Flying Lotus' album Flamagra.
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In May 2021, David Lynch produced a new track by Scottish artist Donovan titled "I Am the Shaman".
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David Lynch designed and constructed furniture for his 1997 film Lost Highway, notably the small table in the Madison house and the VCR case.
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In 2006, David Lynch authored a short book describing his creative processes, stories from throughout his career, and the benefits he had realized through his practice of Transcendental Meditation called Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.
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David Lynch describes the metaphor behind the title in the introduction:.
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In 2017, David Lynch was awarded The Edward MacDowell Medal by The MacDowell Colony for outstanding contributions to American culture.
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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 film-maker of the current era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking".
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David Lynch's work led to him being labeled "the first populist surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael.
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In January 1968, he married Peggy Reavey, with whom he had one child, Jennifer David Lynch, born in 1968, who is a film director.
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In June 1977, David Lynch married Mary Fisk, and the couple had one child, Austin Jack David Lynch, born in 1982.
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David Lynch later developed a relationship with Mary Sweeney, with whom he had one son, Riley Sweeney David Lynch, born in 1992.
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In 2009, David Lynch married actress Emily Stofle, who appeared in his 2006 film Inland Empire as well as the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks.
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The couple have one child, Lula Boginia David Lynch, born in 2012.
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David Lynch has said that he is "not a political person" and that he knows little about politics.
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David Lynch said that he would vote for Democratic incumbent Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.
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In one of his daily weather report videos, David Lynch expressed support for Black Lives Matter protests.
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David Lynch was initiated into Transcendental Meditation in July 1973, and has practiced the technique consistently since then.
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David Lynch says he met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the TM movement, for the first time in 1975 at the Spiritual Regeneration Movement center in Los Angeles, California.
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David Lynch became close with the Maharishi during a month-long "Millionaire's Enlightenment Course" held in 2003, the fee for which was $1 million.
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Together with John Hagelin and Fred Travis, a brain researcher from Maharishi University of Management, David Lynch promoted his vision on college campuses with a tour that began in September 2005.
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David Lynch was working for the building and establishment of seven buildings in which 8,000 salaried people would practice advanced meditation techniques, "pumping peace for the world".
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David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish discusses Transcendental Meditation's effect on his creative process.
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David Lynch attended the funeral of the Maharishi in India in 2008.
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An independent project starring David Lynch called Beyond The Noise: My Transcendental Meditation Journey, directed by film student Dana Farley, who has severe dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, was shown at film festivals in 2011, including the Marbella Film Festival.
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David Lynch designed his personal website, a site exclusive to paying members, where he posts short videos and his absurdist series Dumbland, plus interviews and other items.
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The site featured a daily weather report, where David Lynch gives a brief description of the weather in Los Angeles, where he resides.
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David Lynch continues to broadcast this weather report on his personal YouTube channel, DAVID LYNCH THEATER, along with "TODAY'S NUMBER", where he draws a random number, between one and ten, out of a bingo cage.
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David Lynch is a coffee drinker and has his own line of special organic blends available for purchase on his website and at Whole Foods.
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The moving image collection of David Lynch is held at the Academy Film Archive, which has preserved two of his student films.