Mickey Cottrell, a veteran publicist for unbiased movies often known as a champion of filmmakers and actors, died Monday on the Movement Image Hospital in Woodland Hills, his sister Suzy Cottrell confirmed. He was 79.
Cottrell had returned to Los Angeles in 2019 after residing along with his sister in Arkansas whereas he recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2016.
His sister remembered him on Fb, writing, “My lovable, enjoyable, essential, foodie, explicit, good, loving brother handed on to the following life early on New Yr’s Day. He was smiling when he died. Mickey Cottrell can be missed by many.”
A fixture at movie festivals, he was remembered by pals on Fb as a beneficiant and sassy raconteur, a loyal mentor, the “lifetime of the get together” who threw star-studded Sundance events within the Nineties and an skilled on homosexual Hollywood historical past.
Cottrell additionally acted in quite a few small roles over time, together with turns in Gus Van Sant’s “My Personal Personal Idaho” as Daddy Carroll, one in every of River Phoenix’s johns and in “Drugstore Cowboy” in addition to in “Ed Wooden,” “Volcano” and “Shortbus,” wherein he performed “useless man in Jacuzzi.” He additionally appeared in “Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology” and “Star Trek: Voyager.”
Among the many filmmakers he labored with had been Percy Adlon (“Bagdad Cafe”), Ira Sachs (“Preserve the Lights On”) Phillip Noyce (“Useless Calm”), Sophia Takal, Andrew Haigh (“Weekend”), Jonathan Caouette (“Tarnation”), Wim Wenders (“Wings of Want”) and lots of extra. He additionally dealt with publicity for movies together with “The Quiet American,” “Weekend,” “I Am Divine,” “One False Transfer,” “Blood and Concrete,” “Earth Women Are Simple,” “Streetwise” and “Querelle.”
In a 2010 profile of Cottrell within the L.A. Weekly, Ella Taylor wrote that he was, “As in contrast to the glossy new era {of professional} PR smoothies because it’s potential to be.”
Selection’s Todd McCarthy talked about Cottrell in a 1996 article about Sundance, saying, “As late as 1987, just one publicist, Mickey Cottrell, made the journey from Hollywood to advertise an image on the pageant.”
He’s survived by two sisters Gigi and Suzy Cottrell, nephew Jeremy Allen and great-nephew Gregory Allen.
