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David Lynch Bio
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David LynchSo unique and different are the movies of David Lynch, that even Mel Brooks referred to him once as the "Jimmy Stewart of Mars." Known mostly for the movie Blue Velvet and the dark television series Twin Peaks, Lynch has made a definite impact on the world of entertainment, yet doesn't ever wish to tell his audience what any of it means, inviting them to draw their own conclusions.
Born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20, 1946, to a research scientist father and a language tutor mother, Lynch attained the rank of Eagle Scout. He was also an usher at John F. Kennedy's Presidential inauguration, which happened to coincide with his fifteenth birthday. While still in high school, Lynch attended classes at the Corcoran School of Art, and later attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, before traveling to Europe with friend Jack Fisk.
Although Lynch planned to study art in Europe for a few years, he returned home after just fifteen days, and took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1966 Lynch made his first short film, Six Figures Getting Sick, and won an award at the Academy's annual film contest. Winning a grant from the American Film Institute, he used it to create The Grandmother, which was used as a benchmark of many of his future films, including many of the same dark themes.
Studying in Los Angeles at the A.F.I. Conservatory, Lynch put the lessons to good use working on Eraserhead, his first full-length film. Although it was started in 1971, Lynch didn't get the funding to complete the project until 1977. One of those to help out was his old buddy Fisk, who was by this time married to actress Sissy Spacek. Lynch often referred to this film as "My Philadelphia Story," as it included many things he felt while living there. With the movie about a man dealing with the birth of his mutant child, the film spoke of Lynch's own fears of fatherhood.
When Mel Brooks was getting set to produce The Elephant Man, the movie about the very disfigured Joseph Merrick, he called on Lynch to direct it. This went on to earn him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. With his first real success under his belt, Lynch was then asked to direct the big budget science fiction film Dune, starring Sting. Producer Dine De Laurentis was looking for a blockbuster similar to Star Wars, but the movie ended up being a flop.
Lynch's career gained momentum with another De Laurentis film, Blue Velvet, starring Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini. The film utilized yet another of Lynch's favorite story themes, and that was of life in a small town. It went on to earn him another Academy Award nomination, and even the award's eventual winner, Woody Allen, said the winner should be Lynch.
Not being able to get the funding for some movies in the late 1980s, Lynch focused his attentions this time on a television series, Twin Peaks. Starring Kyle MacLachlan and Lara Flynn Boyle, the unique drama focused around the investigation of the murder of a local teenage girl, Laura Palmer, played by Sheryl Lee. Twin Peaks became a cult phenomenon, and after it ended its run on television, a film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, was produced as a prequel to the original show.
Now a successful filmmaker, Lynch moved to the making of Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. While it won at the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, it failed to pick up fans with viewers or critics back in the U.S. Lynch turned to Cage and Dern again when he produced a musical, Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It also starred several members of the Twin Peaks cast, and featured songs by Julee Cruise. Television projects such as the comedy On the Air, American Chronicles, and the HBO mini-series Hotel Room were added to Lynch's resume around this same time.
Lynch had himself another commercial flop, but artistic success, in Lost Highway starring Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette. While the audiences didn't exactly go for that, they did go for the accompanying soundtrack that included tracks by Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Smashing Pumpkins. He followed this with a departure from his normal dark movie with sexual overtones, Disney's The Straight Story. This film starred Richard Farnsworth as the man who rode a riding lawnmower from Iowa to Wisconsin to visit his brother who was ill.
ABC was approached by Lynch as he attempted a return to television with a show called Mulholland Drive, but it never aired because of creative differences. Instead, it was turned into a film starring Naomi Watts. It was a film that could finally be called another success, and also won Lynch Best Director awards from the Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Critics Association. Laura Dern worked with him once again in a film shot digitally in Poland, INLAND EMPIRE, released late in 2006.
Lynch has been practicing transcendental meditation for over thirty years, and believes it brings peace to the world. He created the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and Peace, and promotes it at colleges across the country. He also maintains his interest in art, making furniture which is used in many of his movies, and also drew a comic strip called The Angriest Dog in the World. Although he doesn't eat sugar anymore, at one time, he visited Bob's Big Boy every day, and would order a chocolate milkshake and "four, five, six, seven cups of coffee--with lots of sugar." He believes to this day that many of his great movie ideas came from this daily intake of sugar. YUDDY |
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David Lynch - His friend Jack Fisk married Sissy Spacek .
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David Lynch - Directed 'The Elephant Man' produced by Mel Brooks . |
David Lynch - Directed 'Dune' starring Sting .
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David Lynch - Pamela Gidley starred in David Lynch's film 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.'
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David Lynch - Marilyn Manson starred in David Lynch's film 'Lost Highway.'
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