The Cowboy

The Cowboy
The Cowboy is an otherwise nameless character in the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive.

The Cowboy apparently works for or with the mobsters who have commandeered the director's film, and he gives orders to the director on that basis. However, with his association with electricity he is also a character with some association with "fire" and therefore like BOB and other menacing figures may in fact be part of more than one world. He is certainly mysterious and weird enough to be an entity such as those from the Black Lodge or similar Lynchian "nowhere" realms.

His Own Wardrobe
The actor who played the cowboy was actually a producer friend of David Lynch. The producer wore his own clothes as the Cowboy costume. These clothes were an original collection of costume elements worn by Tom Mix, with a value of many thousands of dollars.