Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
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The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

 cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. It is also called "New Calvary Cemetery" because the original 1896 cemetery on North Broadway was moved to make way for Cathedral High School
Cathedral High School (Los Angeles, California)
Cathedral High School is a private, college preparatory Catholic all-boys school in Los Angeles, California.-History and background:Cathedral High School was founded by Archbishop John Joseph Cantwell as the first Los Angeles Archdiocesan high school for boys in Fall 1925. The Christian Brothers...

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Notable burials

  • Kathryn Adams
    Kathryn Adams
    Kathryn Adams was an American silent film actress.-Biography:Born Ethalinda Colson in St. Louis, Missouri, Adams entered films in 1915 after a brief and rather unsuccessful stint in musical comedy...

     (1893–1959), actress
  • King Baggot
    King Baggot
    William King Baggot was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era...

     (1879–1948), actor, screenwriter/director
  • Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

     (1878–1954), actor
  • Ethel Barrymore
    Ethel Barrymore
    Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...

     (1879–1959), actress
  • Eugenie Besserer
    Eugenie Besserer
    Eugenie Besserer was an actress born in Watertown, New York of French Canadian parents, who starred in silent films and features of the early sound motion picture era, beginning in 1910.- Orphan in Canada:...

     (1868–1934), actress
  • Francelia Billington
    Francelia Billington
    Francelia Billington was an early American silent-screen actress, and an accomplished camera operator.-Early life:...

     (1895–1934), actress
  • Richard Boleslawski (1889–1937), polish film director
  • Mary Carr
    Mary Carr
    Mary Carr was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr . She appeared in 144 films between 1915 and 1956...

     (1874–1973), actress
  • Helene Costello
    Helene Costello
    Helene Costello was an American motion picture actress, most notably of the silent film era.Lou Costello took his professional name from the actress.- Biography :...

     (1906–1957), actress
  • Lou Costello
    Lou Costello
    Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...

     (1906–1959), actor, part of comedy team, "Abbott
    Bud Abbott
    William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.-Early life:...

     & Costello"
  • Dolores Costello
    Dolores Costello
    Dolores Costello was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen"...

     (1903–1979), actress
  • Mae Costello
    Mae Costello
    Mae Costello was an American stage and film actress of the early twentieth-century.-Early life:Born Mae Altschuk in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of Lewis Altschuk and Catherine Callender. As a teenager she began performing in stage productions in stock theater companies throughout the...

     (1882–1929), actress
  • Maurice Costello
    Maurice Costello
    Maurice Costello was a prominent vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as both a leading man, supporting player and a director....

     (1877–1950) actor
  • Edward L. Doheny
    Edward L. Doheny
    Edward Laurence Doheny was an American oil tycoon, who in 1892, along with business partner Charles A. Canfield, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field, setting off the petroleum boom in Southern California.At first he was an unsuccessful prospector in the state of...

     (1856–1935), oil tycoon
  • Jack Dragna
    Jack Dragna
    Jack Ignatius Dragna was an American Mafia member and Black Hander who was active in both Italy and the United States in the 1900s. He was active in bootlegging in California during the Prohibition Era in the United States...

     (1891–1956), Los Angeles crime family
    Los Angeles crime family
    The Los Angeles crime family is an Italian American criminal organization based in Los Angeles, as part of the American Mafia . Since its inception in the early 1900s, it has spread throughout Southern California. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the L.A. family gained power...

     Boss
  • William W. Dixon
    William W. Dixon
    William Wirt Dixon was a U.S. Representative from Montana.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dixon moved to Illinois in 1843 and to Keokuk, Iowa, in 1849....

     (1838–1910) U.S. Representative (Democrat, Fifty-Second Congress). Later moved to Rock Creek Cemetery
    Rock Creek Cemetery
    Rock Creek Cemetery — also Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery — is an cemetery with a natural rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE in Washington, D.C.'s Michigan Park neighborhood, near Washington's Petworth neighborhood...

    , Washington, D.C.
  • Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama...

     (1898–1990), actress
  • Henry Gage
    Henry Gage
    Henry Tifft Gage was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Republican, Gage was elected to a single term as the 20th Governor of California from 1899 to 1903. Gage was also the U.S. Minister to Portugal for several months in 1910.-Biography:Gage was born on Christmas Day, 1852 in Geneva,...

     (1852–1924), governor of California
  • Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

     (1893–1960), prolific film art director and production designer
  • Elaine Hammerstein
    Elaine Hammerstein
    Elaine Hammerstein was an American silent film and stage actress.-Musical lineage:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of opera producer Arthur Hammerstein and the granddaughter of Oscar Hammerstein. Her father once remarked he was more interested in his daughter's career than...

     (1897–1948), actress
  • Ted Healy
    Ted Healy
    Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original creator of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.- Early life :...

     (1896–1937), actor
  • John Hodiak
    John Hodiak
    John Hodiak was an American actor who worked in radio and film.-Early life:He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Walter Hodiak and Anna Pogorzelec . He was of Ukrainian and Polish descent...

     (1914–1955), actor
  • Mervin King
    Mervin King
    Mervin Paul King , was a Captain for the Los Angeles Police Department who commanded officers during the SLA shootout in 1974.-Biography:...

     (1914–2008) Los Angeles Police Department Captain
  • Emilio Kosterlitzky
    Emilio Kosterlitzky
    Emilio Kosterlitzky, also known as Emil Kosterlitzky, was a Russian-born polyglot linguist and soldier of fortune who eventually became a spy for the United States....

     (1853–1928), Russian-born linguist and soldier of fortune
  • Leno La Bianca (1925–1969), murdered by the Charles Manson
    Charles Manson
    Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction...

     family
  • Timothy Manning (1909–1989), Roman Catholic cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
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    , third Archbishop of Los Angeles
  • Bull Montana
    Bull Montana
    Bull Montana , was a professional wrestler and American actor.Lewis Montagna came to the U.S. as a child. The hulking, plug-ugly Montagna became a professional wrestler under the name of Bull Montana...

     (1887–1950), wrestler, actor
  • Matt Moore (1888–1960), actor
  • Owen Moore
    Owen Moore
    Owen Moore was an Irish-born actor in American films, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.-Life and career:...

     (1886–1939), actor
  • Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
    Jelly Roll Morton
    Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....

     (1885–1941), musician/composer of jazz and blues
  • J. Carrol Naish
    J. Carrol Naish
    Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish was an American character actor born in New York City. Naish was twice nominated for an Academy Award for film roles, and he later found fame in the title role of CBS Radio's Life With Luigi , which was also on CBS Television .Naish appeared on stage for several years...

     (1897–1973), actor
  • Pola Negri
    Pola Negri
    Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles from the 1910s through the 1940s during the Golden Era of Hollywood film. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became a great American star. She...

     (1894–1987), polish actress
  • Mabel Normand
    Mabel Normand
    Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...

     (1892–1930), actress
  • Ramón Novarro
    Ramón Novarro
    Ramón Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next male "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino...

     (1899–1968), actor
  • Mary Philbin
    Mary Philbin
    Mary Philbin was a notable film actress of the silent film era. Philbin is probably best remembered for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite screen legend Lon Chaney and Dea in The Man Who Laughs...

     (1903–1993), actress
  • Jack Reagan
    Jack Reagan
    John Edward “Jack” Reagan was the father of United States President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil "Moon" Reagan .-Early life:...

     (1883–1941), father of Ronald W. Reagan
  • Nelle Wilson Reagan
    Nelle Wilson Reagan
    Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan was the mother of United States President Ronald Reagan and his older brother Neil "Moon" Reagan .-Early life:...

     (1883–1962), mother of Ronald W. Reagan
  • Hal Roach, Jr.
    Hal Roach, Jr.
    Hal Roach, Jr. was primarily a film and television producer and very occasional director, with 41 production credits listed in the Internet Movie Database. Born in Los Angeles, California, the son of legendary comedy producer Hal Roach, Roach, Jr. co-directed One Million B.C. with his...

     (1918–1972), film producer
  • Harry F. Sinclair
    Harry F. Sinclair
    Harry Ford Sinclair was an American oil industrialist.-Early life:Harry Sinclair was born in Benwood, West Virginia, now a suburb of the city of Wheeling. Sinclair grew up in Independence, Kansas. The son of a pharmacist, after finishing high school, he entered the pharmacy department of the...

     (1876–1956), oil industrialist
  • Victor Varconi
    Victor Varconi
    Victor Varconi was a highly successful silent film star in Hungary. Born Mihály Várkonyi in Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary, he was the first Hungarian actor to make a film in the United States....

     (1891–1976), Hungarian-born American actor
  • Jose Yarba (1892–1957), aka Mexican Joe Rivers, boxer

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