David Lynch

1946 – 2025

1900s USA · Filmmaker

David Lynch was an American filmmaker who made stories look and feel like nothing else on screen, from the dreamlike TV show Twin Peaks to films like Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. He meditated twice a day, every day, starting in 1973, and said it gave him steady access to energy and ideas. He trained as a painter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and kept painting, drawing, and building furniture by hand his whole life, sanding and polishing wood in his own workshop. For years he also gave short, odd daily weather reports from his studio window, first by phone to a Los Angeles radio station and later by video, always signing off by wishing people a great day. He died in January 2025.

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nbcnews.com
NBC News obituary (Jan 16, 2025) confirming birth date (Jan 20, 1946, Missoula, MT), death date, age 78, the 2024 emphysema disclosure, and his major films.
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en.wikipedia.org
Cross-check for birth/death dates, place of birth, and filmography (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire).
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davidlynchfoundation.org
David Lynch Foundation's page carrying Lynch's own words that he meditated twice daily without missing a session since starting Transcendental Meditation in 1973.
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bfi.org.uk
British Film Institute feature confirming Lynch's daily weather reports, first by phone to LA radio starting 2005, later revived by video from his studio 2020-2022.
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pafa.org
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition page confirming Lynch trained there as a painter and kept a lifelong studio practice in painting, prints, and drawing.
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wallpaper.com
Wallpaper* magazine feature confirming Lynch's hands-on furniture and woodworking practice, which he kept deliberately separate from his filmmaking.
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