David Lynch's cause of death has been revealed as cardiac arrest due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to multiple reports. The director's family announced his death via a social media statement on Jan.

David Lynch sadly passed away in January at the age of 78, and now the Twin Peaks director's cause of death has been confirmed as cardiac arrest due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

David Lynch’s cause of death has been confirmed weeks after the “Twin Peaks” mastermind died just days before his 79th birthday.

This was not the first time Lynch pulled off this move, but that time it wasn't necessary. David Lynch wasn't interested in "doing television." It was far less common in the late 1980s, to jump from film to TV,