Lynn O’Donnell; Producer of Honored Documentary ‘Crumb’

Lynn O’Donnell, 43, producer of the 1995 award-winning documentary “Crumb.” A native of Berkeley, O’Donnell studied filmmaking at San Francisco State. Her work included a documentary about Argentinecrooner, composer and actor Carlos Gardel titled “Voices of the Tango” and one about Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz called “The Poet Remembers.” Terry Zwigoff, who directed the film about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his dysfunctional family, credited O’Donnell with giving the picture its “overall emotional structure.” The film won the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the award for best documentary from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. It was rated by many critics as the best film of 1995. O’Donnell was named Marin County citizen of the year in 1981 after she thwarted a would-be assailant by hitting him and breaking his rifle with a wine bottle. On Wednesday in San Francisco of ovarian cancer.