Lynch was a onetime artist who broke through in the 1970s with the surreal “Eraserhead” and rarely failed to startle and inspire audiences and peers in the following decades.

Tributes pour in as Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director dies aged 78 - The ‘Eraserhead’ and ‘Elephant Man’ director was described as ‘the first populist surrealist’

The American filmmaker who was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in movies such as Blue Velvet has died just days before his 79th birthday.

Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Harring, Questlove, and more shared tributes following the death of one of Hollywood's most relentlessly experimental filmmakers

Steven Spielberg, Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts and more pay tribute to auteur - Collaborators including Nicolas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle have shared their thoughts on the director’s death

Lynch’s death inspired tributes from fellow filmmakers, celebrities and past collaborators, who praised his visionary work and singular voice.

Laura Harring is mourning the loss of her Mulholland Drive director, David Lynch, who died at age 78. The actors who worked with Lynch over his prolific career have shared their thoughts, and Harring paid tribute to the late filmmaker in a post on social media.

The man behind 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Twin Peaks' helped usher in a new style of cinema that teetered between waking and dreaming

After starting her career in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Watts scored her breakout role in Lynch’s 2001 mystery thriller Mulholland Drive. She portrayed lookalikes Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn, the former of which worked to help a woman with amnesia named Rita (played by Laura Harring) unravel the truth of her identity.

Duran Duran have paid their respects to David Lynch describing him as a “creative superhero” and “enormous inspiration”. The veteran director and Twin Peaks creator’s death was announced yesterday (January 16) by his family and came after he was reportedly “forced to relocate from his house” due to the Los Angeles wildfires. He was aged 78.

David Lynch, the legendary American director behind films like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the television series Twin Peaks, passed away on January 15. His family announced the news in a Facebook post the following day: “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us.