Dana Ashbrook

Acting

Dana Ashbrook

Born 1967-05-24 · San Diego, California, USA

Dana Vernon Ashbrook (born May 24, 1967) is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Briggs in David Lynch's television series "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991) and its revival "Twin Peaks: The Return" (2017).

Acting credits

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me poster
7.4

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

Ghost Dad poster
5.0

Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.

Ghost Dad

1990

Twin Peaks poster
8.5

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 series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)

Twin Peaks

1989

The Opposite Sex poster
4.5

The story of Vince, New England's most successful divorce attorney. To Vince, life is one big competition, and losing is unacceptable. This also applies in his dating life with his love 'em and leave 'em approach. Then Vince meets Jane, who is beautiful, successful and also extremely driven. Together they enter into a series of entertaining wagers with each other where the winner gets to decide the fate of the loser.

The Opposite Sex

2015

Return of the Living Dead Part II poster
6.4

A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.

Return of the Living Dead Part II

1988

Waxwork poster
6.2

Wealthy slacker Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends, are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays eighteen of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious…

Waxwork

1988

W.E.I.R.D. World poster
3.3

Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emotionally unstable scientific geniuses are recruited to develop cutting-edge projects in such fields as virology, time-travel, rejuvenation and robotics.

W.E.I.R.D. World

1995

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! poster
5.1

After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent fruit and put a stop to their murderous spree.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

1978

She's Out of Control poster
5.2

A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.

She's Out of Control

1989

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces poster
7.2

A feature-length compilation 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 Laura Palmer’s life.

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

2014

kid 90 poster
7.0

As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over 20 years.

kid 90

2021

Framing John DeLorean poster
6.1

A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom and shocking down fall.

Framing John DeLorean

2019

Unplugged poster
NR

Dayna flees her tour and finds solace in South Dakota's Badlands, connecting with nature and locals, healing from abuse. Her disappearance fuels fame, leaving her stranded in the wilderness she loves, saved from suicide but risking death.

Unplugged

New Alcatraz poster
3.8

Paleontologist Robert Trenton is called to Northeastern Antarctica near the Indian Ocean to help the FBI build an underground maximum-security military base and prison for the world's most dangerous criminals and terrorists, which is dubbed "New Alcatrax" by the staff. While building the prison, the staff accidentally awaken and unleash a prehistoric Boa Constrictor from its 200 year hibernation.

New Alcatraz

2001

The Willies poster
5.7

Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.

The Willies

1990

Inner Balance poster
NR

Josh Eisenstadt short film.

Inner Balance

2005

Bad Binoculars poster
8.0

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Bad Binoculars

2017

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat poster
6.1

Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

1991

Girlfriend from Hell poster
5.0

The inventor of the condom has become God's bounty hunter and is tasked with tracking down and capturing the Devil, who has possessed the body of a high school wallflower in order to feed on human souls via sex.

Girlfriend from Hell

1989

The Aggression Scale poster
5.6

When out-on-bail mob boss Bellavance discovers that $500,000 of his money is missing, he sends four hardcore hit men to send a "loud and messy" message to the suspected thieves' families. But when the killers invade the Rutledge home, they'll meet the household's emotionally disturbed young son Owen. Owen has a history of violent behavior, knows how to make lethal booby-traps and is about to teach these thugs some deadly lessons in extreme vengeance.

The Aggression Scale

2012

Late Phases poster
6.0

When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.

Late Phases

2014

Minor Premise poster
5.2

Attempting to surpass his father's legacy, a neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own experiment, pitting ten fragments of his consciousness against each other.

Minor Premise

2020

The Last Place on Earth poster
5.7

Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother, meets Ann Field, a woman who'll change his life forever.

The Last Place on Earth

2002

Angels Don't Sleep Here poster
2.8

A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin brother plots revenge on those who tried to kill him.

Angels Don't Sleep Here

2002