Aside from Twin Peaks, Lynch was also known for Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive. Lynch was born in Montana in 1946 and attended art college in the 1960s. He was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts when he made his first film, an experimental short called Six Men Getting Sick.

The ABC show was a surprise cultural and ratings phenomenon when it aired in 1990, and it changed television forever

David Lynch will forever be known as a film auteur, though the consummate artist never restricted himself to a single medium. Painting, radio and even coffee production all fell within his repertoire - but Lynch's final work as a director was "Twin Peaks: The Return.