Film director David Lynch, father of the ‘Twin Peaks’ series, dies at 78

Director and screenwriter David Lynch, the unique director responsible for films such as Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, and creator of the legendary television series Twin Peaks, has died at the age of 78.

Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking and that he would probably no longer be able to leave his house to direct. His family announced his death in a Facebook post. “There is a huge void in the world now that he is no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eyes on the donut and not the hole,'” the statement states.

David Keith Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20, 1946. His father, Donald, was a research scientist, and his mother, Edwina, an English teacher. In her unmistakable career, for which the term experimental falls short, she was marked by her creations that were as surprising as they were disturbing and disturbing, drawing on sources such as the surrealism of Buñuel or Dalí and classics such as Billy Wilder, Kurosawa, John Ford or Werner Herzog. .*

A filmography that, after several short films, began in 1977 with the feature film Eraserhead, includes titles such as *The Elephant Man (1980), the first film adaptation of Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990),* Lost Highway (1997), A True Story (1999), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006), his last and again unclassifiable film.

Lynch was nominated for four Oscars (as director for Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man, which also earned him a nomination for adapted screenplay), but he was left without an award on all four occasions. Finally, in 2019 the Academy recognized the filmmaker’s career with an honorary award.

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But Lynch not only stirred the audience in their seats, he also did so in their sofas with Twin Peaks, one of the great phenomena in the history of television that he created together with Mark Frost and with which he had half and half the planet in disbelief. same question: Who killed Laura Palmer?