- Born
- Birth nameMary Dingman
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- 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 (The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), Bram Stoker's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and more). Her son Tyler Patton is a set dresser/property master/actor.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpouseBart Patton(September 2, 1961 - January 18, 1980) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenGeoffrey P. Patton
- RelativesTony Dingman(Sibling)
- Worked for director Francis Ford Coppola in front of and behind the camera
- Script Supervisor
- Playing Young Naive Blondes
- Interviewed in "Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 2005).
- Sister of Tony Dingman.
- Mother, with Bart Patton, of son Tyler Patton.
- Ex-daughter-in-law of Phil Patton.
- Appeared as a guest star in the Perry Mason (1957) episodes "The Case Of The Mischievous Doll" (1965) and The Case Of The Bogus Buccaneers (1966).
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