David Lynch
Film director
1946 –
Who is David Lynch?
David Keith Lynch is an American film director, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed a unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The surreal, and in many cases, violent, elements contained within his films have been known to "disturb, offend or mystify" audiences.
Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead. After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man, from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune, which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet, which was critically acclaimed.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1946
Missoula - Also known as
- David Keith Lynch
- David K. Lynch
- The first popular Surrealist
- David L.
- Early life of David Lynch
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Peggy Lynch
(1967 - 1974) - Mary Fisk
(1977/06/21 - 1987/08/29) - Mary Sweeney
(2006/05/10 - 2007/02/12) - Emily Stofle
(2009/02/26 - ) - Isabella Rossellini
(1986 - 1991)
- Peggy Lynch
- Children
- Religion
- Presbyterianism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- AFI Conservatory
- Corcoran College of Art and Design
- Lived in
- Missoula
- Philadelphia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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