MacLachlan and Lynch worked together for decades, with the star appearing in several of the director’s hits like “Blue Velvet” (1984) and the early ’90s series “Twin Peaks” that spawned the movie prequel, “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” (1992) and Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017).

Gary Levine shares funny anecdotes about working with David Lynch on Twin Peaks, talks about filmmaker's profound impact on the television medium.

“Twin Peaks” was his ultimate portrait of a land of terror and beauty.

David Lynch, who co-created “Twin Peaks” and directed films such as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” has died. He was 78. Lynch’s family revealed his passing via social media on Thursday.

David Lynch, the legendary director of "Twin Peaks" and "Mulholland Drive," is dead at 78, his family announced Jan. 16 on Facebook.

EXCLUSIVE: David Lynch had a great knack for discovering leading-lady talent, actresses who would ascend to bigger heights. One of those is Lara Flynn Boyle, who played the role of Donna Hayward in Lynch’s early 1990s ABC series Twin Peaks.

He expanded the cinematic potential of television and influenced a generation of showrunners, including “Sopranos” creator David Chase.

Lynch, who was born in Montana in 1946, was a writer, director and painter who studied at the American Film Institute. He first broke into the movie scene in 1977 when he turned his thesis project into his first feature film "Eraserhead," a black-and-white surrealist indie film that quickly gained notoriety as a midnight movie.

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.

The late auteur’s legacy looms large over the medium of games

The late American auteur leaves us with some phenomenal cinematic achievements, but the influence of ‘Twin Peaks’ endures on television.

A museum dedicated to the late filmmaker David Lynch is set to open in the Polish city of Toruń, featuring 13 shipping containers of memorabilia donated by the director himself before his death.