Oscar-winning film editor Tom Rolf dies aged 83

Tom Rolf, who won an Oscar for his work editing the 1983 space epic, The Right Stuff, has died aged 83.

LISBON - In a career spanning four decades, the respected editor worked on over 40 films. His credits included Michael Mann's Heat, Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, for which he won a Bafta nomination. He won a career achievement award from the American Cinema Editors in 2003.

Born in 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden, Rolf was a a ski patrolman and a seaman for the Norwegian Merchant Marine before emigrating to the US and entering the entertainment industry. He was given career guidance by his step-father, Jack Donohue - a choreographer and director at MGM - who advised him to go into the cutting room.

Tom served two terms as president of American Cinema Editors (ACE), and was a governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 15 years.