David Paul Cronenberg (born 15 March 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981),  Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986). However, he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers, and gangster films. Cronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences; he has earned critical acclaim and sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. The Village Voice called him "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world". His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Crash at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award "for originality, for daring, and for audacity". From the 2000s to the 2020s, Cronenberg collaborated on several films with Viggo Mortensen, including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011) and Crimes of the Future (2022). Seven of his films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or, the most recent being The Shrouds (2024), which was screened at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Cronenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Ready or Not: Here I Come — Chester Danforth
• 2025Cronenberg, à corps ouvert
• 2025The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
• 2025The Shrouds — Director, Writer
• 2024Humane — D.O.C.S. Commercials Narrator
• 2023Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection — Director, Writer
• 2023Leo — Original Film Writer
• 2023The Death of David Cronenberg — David Cronenberg, Director, Writer
• 2022Crimes of the Future — Director, Writer
• Slasher: Flesh & Blood — Spencer Galloway
• 2020Disappearance at Clifton Hill — Walter
• 2020Falling — Dr. Klausner
• 2019Rabid — Original Film Writer
• 2019The Dead Don't Die — Thanks
• 2019The Drema — Thanks
• Alias Grace — Reverend Verrenger
• Star Trek: Discovery — Dr. Kovich
• 2016Ape Sodom — Narrator, Additional Dialogue
• Slasher — Spencer
• 2016Tomorrow's Shadows — G.O.D. (voice)
• Pig Goat Banana Cricket — Dr. Cronenbird (voice)
• 2014Maps to the Stars — Director
• 2014Mental Saboteur — Thanks
• 2014Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk — Thanks
• 2014The Double — Thanks
• 2014The Scanners Way: Creating the Special Effects in 'Scanners' — Thanks
• 2013Candy — Thanks
• 2013Pacific Rim — Thanks
• 2013Rewind — Rourke
• 2013Tales from the Organ Trade — Narrator
• 2013The Nest — Dr. Molnar (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
• 2012Citizens of Cosmopolis — Self, Thanks
• 2012Cosmopolis — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2011A Dangerous Method — Director
• 2011Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter — Thanks
• 2011Down to Sleep — Thanks
• 2010Barney's Version — O'Malley Director #2
• 2010Crank Up — Thanks
• Happy Town — Dr. Leichman
• 2010Tub — Thanks
• 2008The Plan — Executive Producer
• 2007At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World — The Last Jew, Director, Writer
• 2007Eastern Promises — Director
• 2007Karim — Thanks
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ..."), Director
• 2006Shortbus — Thanks
• 2006Skinwalkers — Thanks
• 2005A History of Violence — Director
• 2005Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly — Thanks
• Le Cercle
• 2004Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche — Duncan (archive footage)
• 2002Spider — Director, Producer
• Alias — Dr. Brezzel
• 2001Imagining 'Total Recall' — Thanks
• 2001Jason X — Dr. Wimmer
• 2001Resolving Power — Thanks
• 2001The Judge — Det. Stobel
• The Judge — Det. Stobel
• 2000Camera — Director, Writer
• 2000Preludes — Director
• 1999David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh
• 1999Resurrection — Father Rousell
• 1999eXistenZ — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1998I'm Losing You — Executive Producer
• 1998Last Night — Duncan
• 1998The Grace of God — Psychiatrist
• 1996Crash — Auto Wreck Salesman (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 1996Extreme Measures — Hospital Lawyer
• 1996Moonshine Highway — Clem Clayton
• 1996The Stupids — Postal Supervisor
• 1995Blood & Donuts — Crime Boss
• 1995Scanner Cop II — Characters
• 1995To Die For — Man at Lake
• 1994Boozecan — Stan Coleburn
• 1994Henry & Verlin — Doc Fisher
• 1994Scanner Cop — Characters
• 1994Trial by Jury — Director
• 1993M. Butterfly — Director
• 1992Blue
• 1992Scanners III: The Takeover — Characters
• 1991Highway 61 — Thanks
• 1991Naked Lunch — Director, Writer
• 1991Scanners II: The New Order — Characters
• 1990Nightbreed — Dr. Philip K. Decker
• Scales of Justice — Director
• 1988Dead Ringers — Obstetrician (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
• Friday the 13th: The Series — Director
• 1986The Fly — Gynecologist, Director, Screenplay
• 1985Into the Night — Group Supervisor
• 1983The Dead Zone — Director
• 1983Videodrome — Max Renn (Helmet Scenes) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1982The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome — Interviewee
• 1981Escape from New York — Thanks
• 1981Scanners — Director, Writer
• 1979Fast Company — Director, Screenplay
• 1979The Brood — Director, Writer
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Rabid — Director, Writer
• Teleplay — Director, Writer
• Peep Show — Director
• 1975Shivers — Infected Crowd Member (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1973Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors — Production Manager
• 1972Don Valley — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1972Fort York — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1972In the Dirt — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1972Lakeshore — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1972Scarborough Bluffs — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1972Winter Garden — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1971Jim Ritchie Sculptor — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1971Letter from Michelangelo — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
• Programme X — Director
• 1971Tourrettes — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1970Crimes of the Future — Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1969Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) — Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1967Buffalo Airport Visions
• 1967From the Drain — Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
• 1967Palace of Pleasure
• 1966Transfer — Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Sound, Producer

Appearances as themselves (36)

• 2026Joie de Vivre — Self
• 2026Music, Fashion, Film — Self
• 2025Sangre del Toro — Self (archive footage)
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2023Room 999 — Self
• 2019A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don't Look Now — Self
• 2019L’inquiétante absence — Self
• 2019Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece — Self
• 2012A Special Day — Self
• 2011Cronenberg: The Early Years — Self
• 2011Produce Your Own Damn Movie! — Self
• 2010Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics — Self (archive footage)
• 2010William S. Burroughs: A Man Within — Self
• 2008On Screen!: Shivers — himself
• 2006Acts of Violence — Self
• 2006The Politics of the Dead Zone — Self
• 2006Too Commercial for Cannes — Self
• 2005The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter — Self
• 2004Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh — Self
• 2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments — Self
• 2002By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X" — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Masters of Horror — Self
• 2000Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier — Self
• 2000The American Nightmare — Self
• SexTV — Self
• 1997David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme — Himself
• The Newsroom — Himself
• 1992Naked Making Lunch — Self
• 1990Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard — Self
• Prisoners of Gravity — Self
• 1988The Making of Dead Ringers — Self - Writer/Director
• 1987Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg — Self
• Late Night with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• 1982Take One: Fear on Film — Self
• Cérémonie des César — Self - Presenter
• David Cronenberg, en chair et en os — Himself