Mickey Cottrell, the PR executive who specialized in the indie film business and worked both as an actor and a producer, died on New Year’s Day at the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills.
He was 79. His death was confirmed by his sister, Suzie Cottrell-Smith, who told Deadline he suffered from Parkinson’s disease.
Cottrell experienced a stroke in 2016 and had gone to live with his sister in Arkansas before returning to Los Angeles in 2019.
Cottrell was born November 4, 1944 in Springfield, Illinois, and spent part of his childhood in Monroe, LA. He moved with his family to Little Rock, Ark.
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