
- David Keith Lynch
- Missoula, Montana, USA
- January 20, 1946
David Lynch is an American film director, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. He produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980). He proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune (1984) and then a neo-noir crime film Blue Velvet (1986). Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1991); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999), in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on "dream logic", non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006).