David Lynch, the groundbreaking director of films including "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at the age of 78, his family announced Thursday.

Lynch revolutionized the film industry. Learn about the late filmmaker and actor, who died when he was 78 years old.

He lived in Callowhill and Fairmount in the late 1960s, attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for part of that time.