MUMBAI: Donah Bassett, a negative cutter in Hollywood for more than forty years expired on Tuesday. She was 83.

Bassett took a job as a film technician at Technicolor Film Laboratory in 1954 and established her own company known as Donah Bassett and Associates in 1976, worked on more than 200 films including classics such as Raging Bull, Reds, The Natural, Amadeus, Blue Velvet, Wall Street, A League of Their Own and Legends of the Fall.

She retired in 1996 and two years later moved to Arizona to study oil painting at local workshops and the Scottsdale Art School. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and galleries in California and Arizona.

Bassett is survived by her brother, Charles Taft; children Chris Scudder, Cathy Bassett Goldman and Craig Bassett; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.