Mary Mitchel
- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
- Additional Crew
A native of the movie capital, Mary Mitchel (real name: Mary Dingman)
began acting on stage while attending UCLA. Quickly acquiring an agent,
she segued into early 1960s TV and movies, among them the Irish-made
Dementia 13 (1963), in which she appeared with her real-life husband Bart Patton. (The
two had attended UCLA with Dementia 13's 23-year-old writer-director
Francis Ford Coppola.) When her acting career later stalled, Mitchel sought jobs
behind the scenes, working in different capacities on a variety of
motion pictures, many of them Coppola productions (Le Parrain (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979),
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and more). Her son Tyler Patton is a set dresser/property
master/actor.
