Mary Mitchel

A native of the movie capital, 'Mary Mitchel' (qv) (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)_ (qv), in which she appeared with her real-life husband 'Bart Patton' (qv). (The two had attended UCLA with Dementia 13's 23-year-old writer-director 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv).) 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 (_The Godfather (1972)_ (qv), _Apocalypse Now (1979)_ (qv), 'Bram Stoker' (qv)'s 'Bram Stoker' (qv)'s Dracula (1992), and more). Her son 'Tyler Patton' (qv) is a set dresser/property master/actor.::'Tom Weaver' (qv) <TomWeavr@aol.com>