---
name: "Lynn O'Donnell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lynn-odonnell"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "25 March 1953"
died: "17 April 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:59:15.423216+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lynn O'Donnell

Producer. Born 25 March 1953 in Berkeley, California. Died 17 April 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 25 March 1953, Berkeley, California
- **Died:** 17 April 1996
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6709155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640804/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/140993

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Crumb*](https://film.one/film/crumb.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lynn O'Donnell was an American film producer. She produced the documentary *Crumb* (1995), directed by Terry Zwigoff, which won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.

She studied filmmaking at San Francisco State University. After working as an editor in Vienna, she joined KQED public television in San Francisco, where she became head of production. Her other credits include producing *Living on Tokyo Time* (1987) and serving as associate producer on *In the Shadow of the Stars* (1991). She also produced documentaries on Czesław Miłosz and Carlos Gardel.

O'Donnell died in San Francisco on 17 April 1996.

*Sources: nytimes.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crumb* (1995), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/crumb.md)

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/lynn-odonnell