# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/duwayne-dunham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:51:50.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/duwayne-dunham"
name: "Duwayne Dunham"
slug: "duwayne-dunham"
description: "Duwayne Robert Dunham is an American director and editor of film and television, as well as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is best known for his collaborations with George Lucas and David Lynch, serving as editor on Return of the Jedi and Blue Velvet. After being hired for Lynch's series Twin Peaks, he was promoted to director and made his debut with the second episode of the series. He subsequently directed the films Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and Little Giants, and numerous television films for the Disney Channel including Halloweentown, The Thirteenth Year, Ready to Run, Right on Track, and Tiger Cruise. In 2018, he reunited with Lynch to edit all 18 episodes of the Twin Peaks: The Return revival series."
tagline: "American film director and editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Duwayne_Dunham_at_the_2025_Locarno_Film_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-11-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1918223119636547
  historical:           10.33935066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242271/"
    handle:    "nm0242271"
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    title: "Duwayne Dunham"
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    title: "دووین دونام"
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    title: "Դուեյն Դանեմ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump