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

Lynch spent time in Wilmington in the mid 1980s, when the director made one of his best-known and most notorious films.

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker who brought surrealist storytelling to the mainstream via "Twin Peaks" and "Muholland Drive," has died. He was 78.