Biography
Angelo Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 - December 11, 2022) was an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1990–1992, 2017), The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive. Badalamenti received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his "Twin Peaks Theme", and had received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Awards and the Henry Mancini Award from the American Society of Composer...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Smith Peaks
2025
Music
In a city of factories, bare trees, and looming cell towers, a graduate student named Smith disappears from his home. His disappearance is reported to...

My Weston is My Hero
2024
Music
The final days before Weston mysteriously snaps and goes insane.

Faraway Eyes
2020
Theme Song Performance, Thanks, Original Music Composer
Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that...

Koi
2019
Music
There's no definitive separation as long as there is memory'. Since the Tsunami hit the northern part of Japan's coast in 2011, more than 20 thousand ...

Ant Head
2018
Music, Sound
"A short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and one-and-a-half tracks from the Thought Gang album."
The Music of David Lynch
2016
as Self
The David Lynch Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exploration of the director's use of immersive and ambient sound in his films, "Twi...

The Wait
2016
Music
A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with h...

Gold Coast
2015
Original Music Composer
Young anti-colonial idealist Wulff leaves for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation but not everything goes according to plan.

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2014
Original Music Composer
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of ...

Stalingrad
2013
Original Music Composer
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process b...

A Late Quartet
2012
Original Music Composer
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the bal...
Time Doesn't Stand Still
2011
Music
Director Asa Mader collaborated with Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan star and New York City Ballet principal) for this film featuring Millepied and Fre...

A Butterfly Kiss
2011
Original Music Composer
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

A Woman
2010
Original Music Composer
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dea...

44 Inch Chest
2009
Original Music Composer
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

The Edge of Love
2008
Original Music Composer
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's child...

The Sound of Lynch
2007
This documentary explores every facet of this job of complex and exciting sound which David Lynch leads since Eraserhead, his first film and matrix wo...

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po...

Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007
Music
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po...

A Slice of Lynch
2007
Music
David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter.

Return to 'Twin Peaks'
2007
Music
Documentary about 'Twin Peaks Festival'.

The Wicker Man
2006
Original Music Composer
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive...

Dark Water
2005
Original Music Composer
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, ...

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
2005
Original Music Composer
Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
as Self

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
Music

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
Music
A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film.

A Very Long Engagement
2004
Original Music Composer
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

Before the Fall
2004
Original Music Composer
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over...

Evilenko
2004
Original Music Composer
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradua...

The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’
2004
as Self
A short documentary about the making of David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
2004
as Self

Indoor Fireworks
2003
Music
Two small time crooks, one big shiny safe and a temperamental old lift transports us into a black humored caper fizzing with indoor fireworks.

Cabin Fever
2003
Original Music Composer
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted a...

Resistance
2003
Original Music Composer
The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot f...

Murder in Scottsdale
2003
Music
An overview of the murder of Bob Crane and an assessment of the investigation which was carried out.

Auto Focus
2002
Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona...

Secretary
2002
Original Music Composer
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship t...

Lathe of Heaven
2002
Music
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for hi...

The Adversary
2002
Original Music Composer
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist J...

Rabbits
2002
Original Music Composer
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and...

Darkened Room
2002
Music
Two young women find themselves in a dark room where there is a distinctly strange feeling.

Mysteries of Love
2002
as Self
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the mak...

Mysteries of Love
2002
Original Music Composer
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the mak...

Cet amour-là
2001
Music
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the in...

Story of a Bad Boy
2001
Original Music Composer
17 year old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. His dad wants him to make the track team, his mom wants him to do well in band, and ...

Mulholland Drive
2001
as Luigi Castigliane
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two s...

Mulholland Drive
2001
Original Music Composer
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two s...

Julie Johnson
2001
Music
A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Jul...

Suspended Animation
2001
Original Music Composer
Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabi...

A Piece of Eden
2000
Music
A bittersweet comedy that follows three generations of the unlucky Tredici family from Corsica in the 1940's to an Indiana fruit farm in the present.

The Beach
2000
Original Music Composer
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradis...

Forever Mine
1999
Original Music Composer
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.

The Straight Story
1999
Original Music Composer
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin ...

Holy Smoke
1999
Original Music Composer
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate ...

Arlington Road
1999
Original Music Composer
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly p...

Mulholland Dr.
1999
as Luigi Castigliane (uncredited)

Mulholland Dr.
1999
Music

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
as Self
An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footag...

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997
Music
An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footag...

The Blood Oranges
1997
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Cyril and Fiona, a free-wheeling married couple, travel to a tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. Cyril is a manipulator. There, th...

Lost Highway
1997
Original Music Composer
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transfo...

The City of Lost Children
1995
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music Producer
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
1995
Music
A short film about the events following a murder.

Witch Hunt
1994
Original Music Composer
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

Naked in New York
1993
Original Music Composer
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

Paul McCartney: Movin' On
1993
as Self
Paul McCartney: Movin' On takes viewers inside the private world of one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. Go backstage and join Beatle Pau...

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack
1992
Music Producer, Music
An experimental music film showcasing the filming locations of "Twin Peaks" using silent footage and eleven tracks from the original score composed by...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
Original Music Composer, Music, Orchestrator
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The...

The Comfort of Strangers
1990
Original Music Composer
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990
as Self
A 1990 documentary presented by Jonathan Ross, in which he interviewed filmmaker David Lynch.

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990
Producer, Music Director, Music
After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads ...

Wild at Heart
1990
Original Music Composer
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a te...

Twin Peaks
1989
Music
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and th...

Wait Until Spring, Bandini
1989
Original Music Composer
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer...

Cousins
1989
Original Music Composer
Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.

Parents
1989
Original Music Composer
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his p...

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
1989
as Self
A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.

Weeds
1987
Original Music Composer
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Tough Guys Don't Dance
1987
Original Music Composer
Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a wom...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Original Music Composer
During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for...

Blue Velvet
1986
as Piano Player
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a ...

Blue Velvet
1986
Original Music Composer
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a ...

Law and Disorder
1974
Original Music Composer
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous...

Gordon's War
1973
Original Music Composer
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriate...