Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
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The Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is a cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

 in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood.

It is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names. But it contains as well the graves of many uncelebrated people. For example, when Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....

 died in 1962, Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio , nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak , a record that still stands...

, responsible for Monroe's arrangements, chose Westwood, not because of its celebrities, but because it was the resting place of Monroe's mother's friend, Grace Goddard, and Goddard's aunt, Ana Lower, both of whom had cared for Monroe as a child.

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  • Milton Ager
    Milton Ager
    Milton Ager was an American composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time as an accompanist to silent...

     (1893–1979), musician, composer
  • Charles Aidman
    Charles Aidman
    Charles Aidman was an American film scenarist and television actor.-Career:Among his many television credits include appearances on NBC's western series The Road West in the 1966 episode "The Lean Years"...

     (1925–1993), actor
  • Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert
    Edward Albert Heimberger , known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing...

     (1906–2005), actor
  • Margo Albert (1917–1985), actress, wife of Eddie Albert
  • Shana Alexander
    Shana Alexander
    Shana Alexander was an American journalist, born Shana Ager in New York City on October 6, 1925. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes with conservative...

     (1925–2005), journalist, columnist and television commentator
  • Claud Allister (1888–1970), actor
  • Gitta Alpár
    Gitta Alpár
    Gitta Alpár , was a Hungarian-born opera and operetta soprano.Gitta Alpár was born in Budapest as Klopfer Regina. At an early age she commenced the study of singing and pianoforte at the Academy of Budapest...

     (1903–1991), actress, opera singer
  • Eve Arden
    Eve Arden
    Eve Arden was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in...

     (1908–1990), actress
  • Jack Arnold (director) (1916–1992), director
  • Robert Armstrong (actor)
    Robert Armstrong (actor)
    Robert Armstrong was an American film actor best remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures. He uttered the famous exit quote, "'Twas beauty killed the beast," at the film's end...

     (1890–1973), actor
  • James Aubrey (1918–1994), producer
  • Hy Averback
    Hy Averback
    Hyman J. Averback, known as Hy Averback , was a radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director.-Radio:...

     (1920–1997), director
  • Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr...

     (1908–1996), actor

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  • Henny Backus
    Henny Backus
    Henny Backus was a Broadway showgirl in the 1930s, where she performed with Earl Carroll's Vanities. Born Henrietta Kaye in Philadelphia, she was the wife of actor and comedian Jim Backus.-Career:...

     (1911–2004), author, wife of Jim Backus
  • Jim Backus
    Jim Backus
    James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr...

     (1913–1989), actor
  • Arthur Ball (1894–1951), cinematographer
  • Edgar Barrier
    Edgar Barrier
    Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show....

     (1907–1964), actor
  • Eileen Barton (1924–2006), singer
  • Richard Basehart
    Richard Basehart
    John Richard Basehart was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.-Career:...

     (1914–1984), actor
  • Greg Bautzer
    Greg Bautzer
    Gregson Edward Bautzer was a celebrity attorney, representing such stars as Ginger Rogers, Ingrid Bergman and Joan Crawford, Kirk Kerkorian, Howard Hughes and William R. Wilkerson...

     (1911–1987), attorney
  • Roberta Beatty (1890–1978), actress
  • William Joseph Bell (1927–2005), producer
  • Whit Bissell
    Whit Bissell
    Whitner Nutting Bissell , better known as Whit Bissell, was an American actor.-Early life:Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at...

     (1909–1996), actor
  • Robert Bloch
    Robert Bloch
    Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...

     (1917–1994), writer
  • Lloyd Bochner
    Lloyd Bochner
    Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian actor, usually playing the role of suave, rich leading men.- Career :...

     (1924–2005), actor
  • Benedict Bogeaus
    Benedict Bogeaus
    Benedict Bogeaus born Chicago 4 May 1904 died of a heart attack Hollywood 23 August 1968 was an independent film producer and former owner of General Service Studios.-Biography and filmography:...

     (1904–1968), producer
  • John Boles (actor)
    John Boles (actor)
    -Early life:Boles was born in Greenville, Texas, into a middle-class family. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 1917 and married Marielite Dobbs in that same year. His parents wanted him to be a doctor and Boles studied and finally got his B.A. degree, but the stage called...

     (1895–1969), actor
  • George Boemler (1902–1968), editor
  • Raleigh Bond (1935–1989), actor
  • Norman Botnick (1908–1979), musician
  • Philip Hilare Bourneuf (1908–1979), actor
  • Dorris Bowdon
    Dorris Bowdon
    Dorris Estelle Bowdon was an American actress, best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda....

     (1914–2005), actress
  • Rosemarie Bowe
    Rosemarie Bowe
    Rosemarie Bowe is an American film and television actress.Her father was a building contractor and her mother was a dress designer. The family moved to Tacoma, Washington when Bowe was a child. She graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma just before moving to Los Angeles, California.-Beauty...

     (born 1932), actress, model, wife of Robert Stack
    Robert Stack
    Robert Stack was an American actor. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he was the star of the 1959-1963 ABC television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries.-Early life:...

    ; future burial site
  • Marguerite McClure Bradbury (1922–2003), wife of Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury
    Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

  • Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury
    Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

     (born 1920), author; future burial site
  • Bobbi Brat (1962–1988), singer
  • Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...

     (1891–1951), actress, comedienne, singer (previously buried in Home of Peace Cemetery
    Home of Peace Cemetery
    The Home of Peace Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 4334 Whittier Boulevard west of Interstate 710 in East Los Angeles, California.The cemetery is located across from Calvary Catholic Cemetery and next to Beth Israel Cemetery and Mount Zion Cemetery .There are a number of famous rabbis...

    )
  • William Brice
    William Brice
    William Brice was an artist known for his large-scale abstract paintings.-Biography:Born to actress Fannie Brice and gambler/criminal Nicky Arnstein, April 23, 1921, he spent his early years living with his mother and his sister Frances , while their father was in prison on a variety of charges...

     (1921–2008), artist, son of Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...

  • Les Brown
    Les Brown (bandleader)
    Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils that Brown led while a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences...

     (1912–2001), bandleader
  • Clarence Bull
    Clarence Bull
    Clarence Bull , usually credited as "Clarence Sinclair Bull", was one of the great portrait photographers who worked for the movie studios during the "Golden Age of Hollywood". He was head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stills department for nearly forty years.-References:...

     (1896–1979), photographer

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  • Sebastian Cabot
    Sebastian Cabot (actor)
    Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, "Giles French," opposite Brian Keith's character, in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair. He was also known for playing Dr...

     (1918–1977), actor
  • Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

     (1913–1993), songwriter
  • Truman Capote
    Truman Capote
    Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...

     (1924–1984), author
  • Ken Carpenter (actor) (1900–1984), actor
  • Edward Carrere (1906–1984), director
  • John Jay Carsey (1921–2002), producer
  • John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes
    John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby and The Dirty Dozen...

     (1929–1989), actor, screenwriter, director, producer
  • Kevin Casselman (1925–1993), producer
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...

     (1895–1968), composer
  • James Coburn
    James Coburn
    James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...

     (1928–2002), actor
  • Paula Coburn (1955–2004), actress, wife of James Coburn
  • Ray Conniff
    Ray Conniff
    Joseph Raymond Conniff was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.-Biography:...

     (1916–2002), musician
  • Richard Conte
    Richard Conte
    Richard Conte was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather.-Life and career:...

     (1910–1975), actor
  • Lawrence Cook (actor)
    Lawrence Cook (actor)
    Lawrence Cook was an African American actor.Cook starred in The Spook Who Sat By The Door. In that film, Cook portrayed Dan Freeman, a secret black nationalist who is trained by the CIA and later trains and leads black freedom fighters in an uprising against the U.S...

     (1930–2003), actor
  • Ian Copeland
    Ian Copeland
    Ian Adie Copeland was a pioneering American music promoter and booking agent who helped launch the New Wave movement in the United States....

     (1949–2006), music promoter
  • Kate Coscarelli (1927–1999), novelist
  • Alexander Courage
    Alexander Courage
    Alexander "Sandy" Mair Courage Jr. was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.-Biography:...

     (1919–2008), composer
  • Bob Crane
    Bob Crane
    Robert Edward "Bob" Crane was an American actor and disc jockey, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E...

     (1928–1978), actor
  • Norma Crane
    Norma Crane
    Norma Crane was an actress of stage, film and television. Among her best known roles was that of Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She also starred in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and Penelope...

     (1928–1973), actress
  • Dick Crawford (actor) (1915–1990), actor

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  • Rodney Dangerfield
    Rodney Dangerfield
    Rodney Dangerfield , was an American comedian, and actor, known for the catchphrases "I don't get no respect!," "No respect, no respect at all... that's the story of my life" or "I get no respect, I tell ya" and his monologues on that theme...

     (1921–2004), comedian, actor
  • Helmut Dantine
    Helmut Dantine
    Helmut Dantine was a film actor remembered for playing many Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. The Vienna-born actor appeared uncredited in Casablanca early in his career .Dantine's father was the head of the Austrian railway system...

     (1917–1982), actor
  • Danny Dark
    Danny Dark
    Danny Dark was widely acknowledged in the commercial industry as the voice-over king. For nearly four decades, he embedded pop culture with memorable lines in advertisements for Budweiser , Raid Ant & Roach Killer and StarKist Tuna...

     (1938–2004), announcer
  • Steve Darrell (1904–1970), actor
  • Marvin Davis
    Marvin Davis
    Marvin H. Davis was an American industrialist and philanthropist...

     (1925–2004), oil tycoon and businessman
  • Don DeFore
    Don DeFore
    Donald John DeFore was an American actor who played "the regular guy" and "the good, ol' boy next door" in many films in the 1940s and 1950s.-Life and career:...

     (1913–1993), actor
  • Edmund M. DiGiulio (1927–2004), film technician
  • Richard H. Dodge (1926–2003), author
  • Lyn Donelson (1891–1966), actress
  • Philip Dorn
    Philip Dorn
    Philip Dorn , born Hein van der Niet and sometimes billed as Frits van Dongen, was a Dutch actor who had a career in Hollywood....

     (1901–1975), actor
  • Eric Douglas
    Eric Douglas
    Eric Anthony Douglas was an American actor who appeared in several movies and television shows and was also a stand-up comedian.-Early life and career:...

     (1958–2004), actor; son of Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...

    , brother of Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas
    Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the...

  • Dominique Dunne
    Dominique Dunne
    Dominique Ellen Dunne was an American actress.Dunne made appearances in several made for television movies, television series, and films, and played a supporting role as the oldest daughter, Dana Freeling, in the 1982 film Poltergeist...

     (1959–1982), actress, daughter of writer Dominick Dunne
    Dominick Dunne
    Dominick John Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist, whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways in which high society interacts with the judicial system...

    , sister of actor-director Griffin Dunne
    Griffin Dunne
    -Personal life:Dunne was born Thomas Griffin Dunne in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims and his father was a producer, writer, and actor...

  • Ariel Durant
    Ariel Durant
    Ariel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...

     (1898–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     in literature
  • Will Durant
    Will Durant
    William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975...

     (1885–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature

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  • Nora Eddington
    Nora Eddington
    Nora Eddington is best known as the second wife of actor Errol Flynn. She was also featured as an actress in several minor film roles.-Background & early life:...

     (1924–2001), actress
  • Roger Edens
    Roger Edens
    Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".-Early career and work with Judy Garland:Edens was born in...

     (1905–1970), vocal coach
  • Jack Elliott (composer) (1927–2001), songwriter
  • Harry Essex
    Harry Essex
    Harry Essex was a prolific American screenwriter. He was born on 29 November 1910 in New York City. He died on 5 February 1997 in Los Angeles. His career spanned more than fifty years...

     (1910–1997), writer
  • Ray Evans
    Ray Evans
    Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...

     (1915–2007), composer

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  • Peter Falk
    Peter Falk
    Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo...

     (1927-2011), actor
  • Farrah Fawcett
    Farrah Fawcett
    Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...

     (1947–2009), actress; tombstone is engraved with her name only
  • Freddie Fields
    Freddie Fields
    Freddie Fields , born Fred Feldman, was an American theatrical agent and film producer who was instrumental in the careers of such stars as Judy Garland, Woody Allen, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, Peter Sellers, and Steve McQueen. He was the brother of band leader Shep Fields...

     (1923–2007), talent agent
  • Jay C. Flippen
    Jay C. Flippen
    Jay C. Flippen is an American character actor who often played police officers or weary criminals in many films of the 1940s/'50s....

     (1899–1971), actor
  • Michael Fox
    Michael Fox (American actor)
    Michael Fox was an American character actor who was in numerous movies and television roles. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in Perry Mason, as Coroner George McLeod in Burke's Law, as Amos Fedders in Falcon Crest and as Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the...

     (1921–1996), actor
  • Coleman Francis
    Coleman Francis
    Coleman C. Francis was an American actor, writer, producer, and director perhaps best-known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats , The Skydivers , Red Zone Cuba , all three of which were filmed in the general Yucca Mountain, Nevada area and used preoccupation with light...

     (1919–1973), film director
  • Georgia Frontiere
    Georgia Frontiere
    Georgia Frontiere was the majority owner and chairman of the St. Louis Rams football team and the most prominent female owner in a league historically dominated by males....

     (1927–2008), football owner

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  • Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under...

     (1919–1995), actress
  • June Gale Levant (1911–1996), actress, wife of Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...

  • Michael V. Gazzo
    Michael V. Gazzo
    Michael Vincenzo Gazzo was an American Broadway playwright who later in life became a film and television actor....

     (1923–1995), actor
  • Christopher George
    Christopher George
    Christopher John George was an American television and film actor who was perhaps best known for his starring role in the 1966-1968 TV series The Rat Patrol. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1967 as Best TV Star for his performance in the series...

     (1931–1983), actor
  • Leonard Gershe
    Leonard Gershe
    Leonard Gershe was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist.Born in New York City, Gershe made his Broadway debut as a lyricist for the 1950 revue Alive and Kicking. He wrote the book for Harold Rome's musical stage adaptation of Destry Rides Again in 1959, and in 1969 a play, ...

     (1922–2002), composer
  • Master Henry Gibson
    Master Henry Gibson
    "Master" Henry Gibson is the world's most recorded percussionist, appearing on about 1200 albums, spanning a career of four decades....

     (1942–2002), musician
  • Henry Gibson
    Henry Gibson
    Henry Gibson was an American actor and songwriter, best known as a cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and for his recurring role as Judge Clark Brown on Boston Legal.-Early life:...

     (1935–2009), actor, was cremated here
  • Paul Gleason
    Paul Gleason
    Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on TV series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places and Die Hard.-Early life:...

     (1939–2006), actor
  • Bebe Goddard (1926–2000), longtime friend of Marilyn Monroe
  • Grace Goddard (1894–1953), Marilyn Monroe's foster mother
  • Thomas Gomez
    Thomas Gomez
    Thomas Gomez was an American actor.Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York City, Gomez began his acting career in theater during the 1920s and was a student of the actor Walter Hampden...

     (1905–1971), actor
  • Robert Gottschalk
    Robert Gottschalk
    Robert Gottschalk was an American camera technician and founder of Panavision.- Early Life :His father, Gustav, was an architect who built a number of hotels in Chicago, IL, where he lived with his wife, Anna. Gustav's success left the family well-off financially and influenced Gottschalk's...

     (1918–1982), camera technician
  • Suzanne Greenstone-Grauman (19??-1972), first wife of Theater, TV and Film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     Walter Grauman
    Walter Grauman
    Walter E. Grauman is an American director of stage shows, films and television shows.-Early life:Grauman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Jacob and Irene Grauman, both children of German immigrants who married after settling in the United States...

  • Jane Greer
    Jane Greer
    Jane Greer was a film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past.-Career:...

     (1924–2001), actress
  • Merv Griffin
    Merv Griffin
    Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. was an American television host, musician, actor, and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway. From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show on Group W Broadcasting...

     (1925–2007), game show creator, talk show host, singer

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  • Loretta King Hadler
    Loretta King Hadler
    Loretta King Hadler was an American actress, best known for the brevity of her career and her relationship with director Ed Wood.-Career:...

     (1917–2007), actress
  • Hayedeh
    Hayedeh
    Hayedeh born Ma'soumeh Dadehbala , was a Persian classical and Pop singer with a contralto vocal range. In a career spanning more than 20 years, she had many hits...

     (1942–1990), persophone
    Persian language
    Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

     pop and classic singer from Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

  • Carrie Hamilton
    Carrie Hamilton
    Carrie Louise Hamilton was an American actress, singer, and playwright. She was the daughter of comedienne/actress Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton.-Life:...

     (1963–2002), actress, singer, daughter of Carol Burnett
    Carol Burnett
    Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut...

  • Armand Hammer
    Armand Hammer
    Armand Hammer was an American business tycoon most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran for decades, though he was known as well as for his art collection, his philanthropy, and for his close ties to the Soviet Union.Thanks to business interests around the world and his...

     (1898–1990), oil tycoon and art collector
  • Bong Soo Han
    Bong Soo Han
    Han Bong-Soo , also known as Bong Soo Han, was a martial arts instructor, author, the founder of the International Hapkido Federation, and one of the foremost practitioners of hapkido through his participation in books, magazine articles, and popular films featuring this Korean martial art...

     (1933–2007), martial artist
  • Betty Hanna (1903–1976), actress
  • Jonathan Harris
    Jonathan Harris
    Jonathan Harris was an American stage and film character actor. Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the TV version of The Third Man, and the comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith, in the 1960s sci-fi television series, Lost in Space...

     (1914–2002), actor
  • Harold Hecht
    Harold Hecht
    Harold Hecht , born in New York City, was an American film producer.Harold Hecht started his involvement with the New York stage at age 16. He appeared in numerous classical stage productions and later danced with the companies of the Metropolitan Opera and Martha Graham...

     (1907–1985), film producer
  • Hugh Hefner
    Hugh Hefner
    Hugh Marston "Hef" Hefner is an American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.-Early life:...

     (1926-), founder of Playboy
    Playboy
    Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

     Magazine; future burial site next to Marilyn Monroe
  • Percy Helton
    Percy Helton
    Percy Helton was an American film and television actor.One of his most memorable supporting roles was playing a drunken Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. He also appeared in small but memorable roles in Criss Cross , The Set-Up , Kiss Me Deadly and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...

     (1894–1971), actor
  • Jonathon Hole (1904–1998), actor
  • "Benny" Howard (1904–1970), aircraft designer and race pilot
  • James Wong Howe
    James Wong Howe
    James Wong Howe, A.S.C. was a Chinese American cinematographer who worked on over 130 films...

     (1899–1976), cinematographer
  • Mark R. Hughes
    Mark R. Hughes
    Mark Reynolds Hughes was an American businessman who was founder, chairman and CEO of Herbalife International Ltd.- Early life :...

     (1956–2000), founder of HerbaLife
    Herbalife
    Herbalife International is a global nutrition, weight-loss and skin-care company. The company was founded in 1980 and it employs around 4,000 people worldwide. Herbalife reported net sales of USD 2.7 billion in 2010...

  • Ronald Hughes
    Ronald Hughes
    Ronald Hughes was a court-appointed attorney who represented Manson family member Leslie Van Houten and an alleged Manson family murder victim.-Tate-LaBianca murder trial:...

     (1935–1970), lawyer
  • Ross Hunter
    Ross Hunter
    Ross Hunter was a Hollywood film producer.-Biography:Hunter was born in Cleveland, Ohio as Martin Fuss. After serving in Army intelligence during World War II, he signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures and acted in a number of B-movie musicals...

     (1920–1996), producer, director
  • Jim Hutton
    Jim Hutton
    Dana James Hutton , usually credited as Jim Hutton, was an American actor in film and television probably best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name.-Early life and career:...

     (1934–1979), actor

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  • Donald G. Jackson
    Donald G. Jackson
    Donald G. Jackson was an American filmmaker who is often referred to in the media as the Ed Wood of the video age...

     (1943–2003), filmmaker
  • Nunnally Johnson
    Nunnally Johnson
    Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures.Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune...

     (1897–1977), filmmaker
  • Louis Jourdan (born 1921) actor, future burial site
  • Louis Henry Jourdan (1951–1981), son of French actor Louis Jourdan
  • Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin
    Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...

     (1943–1970), singer, was cremated here and ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
  • Brenda Joyce
    Brenda Joyce (actress)
    Brenda Joyce was an American film actress. She was born as Betty Graftina Leabo in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, although family and friends referred to her as Graftina....

     (1917–2009), actress

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  • Louis Kaufman
    Louis Kaufman
    Louis Kaufman was an American violinist and possibly the most recorded musical artist of the 20th century. He played the soundtrack on as many as 500 movies and over 100 musical recordings...

     (1905–1994), violinist
  • Beatrice Kay
    Beatrice Kay
    Beatrice Kay was an American singer, vaudevillian, music hall performer, stage and film actress...

     (1907–1986), actress
  • Nora Kaye Ross (1920–1987), ballerina, wife of Herbert Ross
    Herbert Ross
    Herbert Ross was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.-Early life and career:Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942...

  • Brian Keith
    Brian Keith
    Brian Keith was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his four decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the 1961 Disney family film The Parent Trap, the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, and the 1975 adventure saga The Wind and...

     (1921–1997), actor, buried with his daughter, Daisy; both committed suicide
  • Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Lauriston Kellaway was a South African-born character actor.Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author, and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to...

     (1893–1973), actor
  • Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly
    Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...

     (1912–1996), actor, dancer, singer, director, was cremated here and ashes scattered at sea
  • Nancy Kelly
    Nancy Kelly
    Nancy Kelly was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James , which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone...

     (1921–1995), actress
  • Stan Kenton
    Stan Kenton
    Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....

     (1911–1979), band leader
  • Victor Kilian
    Victor Kilian
    Victor Arthur Kilian was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....

     (1891–1979), actor
  • Louis King
    Louis King
    Louis King was an American actor and movie director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He was born on June 28, 1898 in Christiansburg, Virginia....

     (1898–1962), director
  • Don Knotts
    Don Knotts
    Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards...

     (1924–2006), actor, comedian
  • Miliza Korjus
    Miliza Korjus
    Miliza Elizabeth Korjus was an Estonian coloratura soprano opera singer, who later appeared in Hollywood films.-Early life:...

     (1909–1980), opera singer

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  • Perry Lafferty
    Perry Lafferty
    Perry Francis Lafferty was an American television producer and network television executive who produced several television programs, including the popular CBS programs All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Show...

     (1917–2005), director
  • Karen Lamm (1952–2001), model, actress
  • Burt Lancaster
    Burt Lancaster
    Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique and distinctive smile...

     (1913–1994), actor
  • Hal Landers (1928–1991), producer
  • Sidney Lanfield
    Sidney Lanfield
    Sidney Lanfield was a film director known for directing comedy films and later television programs.The one-time musician's first directing job was for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox...

     (1898–1972), film and television director
  • Peter Lawford
    Peter Lawford
    Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen , better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.He was a member of the "Rat Pack", and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting...

     (1923–1984), actor, was cremated and ashes originally buried at Westwood; they were later removed and scattered in the Pacific Ocean
  • Marc Lawrence
    Marc Lawrence
    Marc Lawrence was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C...

     (1910–2005), actor
  • Irving Paul Lazar
    Irving Paul Lazar
    Irving Paul "Swifty" Lazar was a talent agent and deal-maker, representing both movie stars and authors.Born as Samuel Lazar in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1931...

     (1907–1993), agent
  • Robert S. Lechy (1937–1998), film producer, author, minister
  • Anna Lee
    Anna Lee
    Anna Lee, MBE was an English actress.-Career:Lee studied at the Royal Albert Hall, then debuted with a bit part in the film His Lordship...

     (1913–2004), actress, was cremated ashes scattered at sea; has a memorial in the garden
  • Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...

     (1920–2002), singer, songwriter, actress
  • Ernest Lehman
    Ernest Lehman
    Ernest Lehman was an American screenwriter. He received 6 Academy Award nominations during his screenwriting career...

     (1915–2005), screenwriter
  • Oscar Lehrman (1919–1992), businessman, husband of Jackie Collins
    Jackie Collins
    Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins is an English novelist and former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. She has written 28 novels, all of which have appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over 400 million copies and have been...

  • Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh , born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis....

     (1927–2004), actress, Psycho
    Psycho (1960 film)
    Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch...

  • Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon
    John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...

     (1925–2001), actor
  • Queenie Leonard
    Queenie Leonard
    Queenie Leonard was a British character actress and singer.-Early life and career:She was born as Pearl Walker in London in 1905 and began her career on stage in 1921, and debuted on film in 1931. She had already amassed 20 years of stage and screen experience when, in 1941, she made the first of...

     (1905–2002), actress
  • Bruce Lester
    Bruce Lester
    Bruce Lester was a South African-born English film actor with over 60 screen appearances to his credit between 1934 and his retirement from acting in 1958. Lester's career divided into two distinct periods...

     (1912–2008), actor
  • Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...

     (1906–1972), actor, pianist
  • Richard Levinson
    Richard Levinson
    Richard Levinson was an American writer and producer who often worked in collaboration with William Link. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics in 1956. He served in the United States Army from...

     (1934–1987), writer
  • Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

     (1915–2001), composer
  • Louis Loeffler (1897–1972), editor

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  • Mahasti
    Mahasti
    Mahasti bornEftekhar Dadehbala was a legendary Persian Pop and classical singer and diva and the younger sister of singer Hayedeh.- Background :...

     (1946–2007), persophone
    Persian language
    Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

     pop singer from Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

  • Alexander Mackendrick
    Alexander Mackendrick
    Alexander Mackendrick was a Scottish American director and teacher. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and later moved to Scotland...

     (1912–1993), director
  • Karl Malden
    Karl Malden
    Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...

     (1912–2009), actor
  • Janet Margolin
    Janet Margolin
    Janet Margolin was an American theater, television and film actress.- Early life :Margolin was born in New York City, the daughter of Benjamin Margolin, an accountant who was born in Russia and was founder and president of the Nephrosis Foundation, now the Kidney Foundation of New York...

     (1943–1993), actress, married to Ted Wass
    Ted Wass (actor)
    Ted Wass , is an American actor and director. Goodman School of Drama graduate Wass made his Broadway debut in the 1976 production Grease...

  • Dean Martin
    Dean Martin
    Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

     (1917–1995), actor, singer
  • Andrew Marton
    Andrew Marton
    Andrew Marton was a Hungarian-American director, producer and editor...

     (1904–1992), actor
  • Samuel Marx (1902–1992), film producer
  • Pamela Mason
    Pamela Mason
    Pamela Mason was a British actress, author, and screenwriter who appeared in a number of British films.-Early life and career:...

     (1916–1996), actress
  • Shirley Mason (actress) (1900–1979), actress
  • Curt Massey (1910–1991), actor
  • Edith Massey
    Edith Massey
    Edith Massey was an American actress and singer. Massey was best known for her appearances in a series of movies by director John Waters...

     (1918–1984), actress
  • Dorothy Mathews (1912–1977), actress
  • Carol Matthau (1925–2003), actress, wife of Walter Matthau
  • Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears...

     (1920–2000), actor
  • Ruth McDevitt
    Ruth McDevitt
    Ruth McDevitt was an American stage, film, radio and television actress.-Career:She was born Ruth Thane Shoecraft in Coldwater, Michigan. After attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she married Patrick McDevitt and decided to devote her time to her marriage. After her husband's death in...

     (1895–1976), actress
  • Allen Melvin (1923–2008), actor
  • Lewis Milestone
    Lewis Milestone
    Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director...

     (1895–1980), film director
  • Marvin E. Miller
    Marvin Miller (actor)
    Marvin Elliott Miller was an American film and voice-over actor. Possessing a deep, baritone voice, he began his career in radio in St. Louis, Missouri before becoming a Hollywood actor...

     (1913–1985), actor
  • Shirley Mitchell
    Shirley Mitchell
    -Early life:Mitchell was born in Toledo, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo and the University of Michigan.-Career:After moving to Chicago, she appeared in the network broadcast of The First Nighter and played small parts in various soap operas including The Story of Mary Marlin and The...

     (1919-), actress, wife of Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston
    Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

    ; future burial site
  • Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....

     (1926–1962), actress, singer, model
  • Elizabeth Montgomery
    Elizabeth Montgomery
    Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American film and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is perhaps best remembered for her roles as Samantha Stephens in Bewitched, as Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and as Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden.-Early life:Born in Los...

     (1933–1995), actress, was cremated here
  • Constance Moore
    Constance Moore
    Constance Moore was a singer and actress. Her most noted work was in wartime musicals such as Show Business and Atlantic City and the classic 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers, in which she played Wilma Deering, the only female character in the serial.-Life and career:Moore was born in Sioux...

     (1920–2005), singer, actress
  • Dolores Moran
    Dolores Moran
    Dolores Moran was an American film actress and model.Moran's brief career as a film actress began in 1942 with some uncredited roles in such films as Yankee Doodle Dandy. By 1943 she had become a popular pin-up girl and appeared on the cover of such magazines as Yank...

     (1924–1982), actress
  • Jeff Morris (actor)
    Jeff Morris (actor)
    Jeff Morris was an American film and television actor. Among his roles was as Bob, the owner of Bob's Country Bunker, in The Blues Brothers. He later reprised his role in Blues Brothers 2000....

     (1934–2004), actor
  • Richard Barzen Murrow (1912–2002), designer

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  • Nader Naderpour
    Nader Naderpour
    Nader Naderpour was an Iranian-born poet.Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry , Ali Esfandiari, aka Nima Yooshij, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Nader Naderpor, Forough Farrokhzad, Mehdi Akhavan Saless, Sohrab Sepehri, Feraydoon Moshiri, Siavosh Kasraii, Ahmad...

     (1929–2000), Iranian poet
  • Robert Nathan
    Robert Nathan
    Robert Gruntal Nathan was an American novelist and poet.-Biography:Nathan was born into a prominent New York family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry...

     (1894–1985), author, husband of Anna Lee, was cremated and ashes scattered at sea
  • Chrisine Nelson (1920–1988), actress
  • David Nelson
    David Nelson (actor)
    David Oswald Nelson was an American actor, director, producer. He was the elder son of bandleader/TV actor Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hilliard and the older brother of singer Eric "Ricky" Nelson.-Career:...

     (1936–2011), actor, son of Ozzie Nelson
    Ozzie Nelson
    Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American entertainer and band leader who originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons.-Early life:...

     and Harriet Hilliard
    Harriet Nelson
    Harriet Nelson was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.-Early life and career:...

  • William Newell (actor) (1894–1967), actor
  • Robert Newton
    Robert Newton
    Robert Newton was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys...

     (1905–1956), actor
  • James Burl Nielsen (1962–2005), dancer
  • Lloyd Nolan
    Lloyd Nolan
    Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor.-Biography:Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer...

     (1902–1985), actor
  • David Nadir Nuaimi (1963-), real estate investor, future burial site
  • Summer Milam  (1999-) , 12, future burial site

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  • Carroll O'Connor
    Carroll O'Connor
    John Carroll O'Connor best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades...

     (1924–2001), actor
  • Hugh O'Connor
    Hugh O'Connor
    Not to be confused with Hugo Oconór.Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor was an American actor. The son of actor Carroll O'Connor, he portrayed Det./ Lt. Lonnie Jamison on the television drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988-1995. O'Connor committed suicide in 1995. - Biography...

     (1962–1995), actor, son of Carroll O'Connor
    Carroll O'Connor
    John Carroll O'Connor best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades...

  • Heather O'Rourke
    Heather O'Rourke
    Heather O'Rourke was an American child actress who played Carol Anne Freeling in the Poltergeist film trilogy and made several television guest appearances...

     (1975–1988), actress
  • Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison
    Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

     (1936–1988), singer; grave unmarked

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  • Bettie Page
    Bettie Page
    Bettie Mae Page was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She has often been called the "Queen of Pinups"...

     (1923–2008), model
  • Dorothy Patrick
    Dorothy Patrick
    Dorothy Patrick, was an American film actress and a John Robert Powers model.-Early Life:...

     (1921–1987), actress
  • Waite Phillips
    Waite Phillips
    Waite Phillips was an American petroleum businessman who created a fully integrated operation that combined petroleum producing, refining and marketing. With headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he also developed several office complexes and engaged in banking and ranching...

     (1883–1964), oil tycoon, philanthropist
  • Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...

     (1903–1976), cellist
  • Richard Poncher (1905–1986), folk figure

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  • Ford Rainey
    Ford Rainey
    Ford Rainey was an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Rainey was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, the son of Vyrna , a teacher, and Archie Coleman Rainey. Rainey graduated from Centralia Junior College in Washington state and the Cornish Drama School in Seattle. He first acted on...

     (1908–2005), actor
  • Donna Reed
    Donna Reed
    Donna Reed was an American film and television actress.With appearances in over 40 films, Reed received the 1953 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the tramp Lorene in the war drama From Here to Eternity. She is also noted for her role in the perennial Christmas...

     (1921–1986), actress
  • Jimmie Reese
    Jimmie Reese
    Jimmie Reese was a Major League Baseball second baseman, third baseman, and coach.In order to avoid the brunt of prejudice against Jewish...

     (1901–1994), baseball player
  • Stuart Regen (1959–1998), actor
  • Ken Renard (1905–1993), actor
  • Adeline Reynolds (1862–1961), actress
  • Renie Riano (1899–1971), actress
  • Buddy Rich
    Buddy Rich
    Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...

     (1917–1987), drummer, bandleader
  • Minnie Riperton
    Minnie Riperton
    Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya...

     (1947–1979), singer
  • Marjorie Riordan (1921–1984), actress
  • Ava Archer Syme-Reeves (1999–1999), daughter of Keanu Reeves
    Keanu Reeves
    Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...

  • Ben Roberts
    Ben Roberts (writer)
    Ben Roberts, born Benjamin Eisenberg, was a film and television writer, producer and one of the creators of the Charlie's Angels and Time Express television series'. In 1958 he was nominated for an Academy Award for writing the Lon Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces...

     (1916-1984), screenwriter
  • Eugene Rodney (1898–1985), producer
  • Hillevi Rombin
    Hillevi Rombin
    Hillevi Schine, , crowned as Miss Sweden and is the fourth winner of Miss Universe in 1955. She was the first deceased Miss Universe title holder since the pageant's inception.-Biography:...

     (1933–1996), Miss Universe 1955
    Miss Universe 1955
    The fourth edition of Miss Universe was held on 22 July 1955, at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, USA. They had 33 young ladies in the competition...

  • Jack Roper (1904–1966), actor
  • Ruth Rose
    Ruth Rose
    Ruth Rose was a writer who worked on several films in the 1930s and the 1940s, most famously the original 1933 classic King Kong.-Early life:...

     (1896–1978), screenwriter
  • Herbert Ross
    Herbert Ross
    Herbert Ross was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.-Early life and career:Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942...

     (1927–2001), film director

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  • William Sackheim (1921–2004), screenwriter, producer
  • Mark Sandrich Jr. (1928–1995), director, son of Mark Sandrich
    Mark Sandrich
    Mark Sandrich was a Jewish American film director, writer and producer.Sandrich was an engineering student at Columbia University when he began in the film business by accident. While visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem in setting up a shot; Sandrich offered...

  • Franklin Schaffner
    Franklin Schaffner
    Franklin James Schaffner was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes , Patton , Papillon , and The Boys from Brazil .-Early life:...

     (1920–1989), film director
  • G. David Schine
    G. David Schine
    Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine or David Schine, was the wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who received national attention when he became a central figure in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on...

     (1927–1996), film producer
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack
    Ernest B. Schoedsack
    Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was an American motion picture cinematographer, director, and producer.Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong....

     (1893–1979), film director
  • Portland Mason Schuyler (1948–2004), actress, daughter of Pamela
    Pamela Mason
    Pamela Mason was a British actress, author, and screenwriter who appeared in a number of British films.-Early life and career:...

     and James Mason
    James Mason
    James Neville Mason was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes .- Early life :Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the...

  • George C. Scott
    George C. Scott
    George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...

     (1927–1999), actor; grave unmarked
  • Vivienne Segal
    Vivienne Segal
    Vivienne Sonia Segal was an American actress and singer.Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and introduced the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"...

     (1897–1992), singer, actress
  • Anne Seymour (1909–1988), actress
  • Sidney Sheldon
    Sidney Sheldon
    Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show , I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart , but he became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game ,...

     (1917–2007), author
  • Dorothy Shay
    Dorothy Shay
    Dorothy Shay was an American popular comedic recording artist in the late 1940s and early 1950s, who later became a character actress. She was known as the "Park Avenue Hillbillie."-Early life:...

     (1921–1978), actress, singer
  • Ed Simmons
    Ed Simmons
    Edward Lamar Simmons is a former American football offensive tackle who played his entire eleven year career with the Washington Redskins from 1987 to 1997 in the National Football League. He played college football at Eastern Washington University and was drafted in the sixth round of the 1987...

     (born 1963), producer
  • Robert Slatzer (1927–2005), author
  • Sara Sothern
    Sara Sothern
    Sara Sothern was an American stage actress.She was born Sara Viola Warmbrodt in Arkansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Samuel Sylvester Warmbrodt and Elizabeth Ann Wilson...

     (1895–1994), mother of Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...

  • Robert Stack
    Robert Stack
    Robert Stack was an American actor. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he was the star of the 1959-1963 ABC television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries.-Early life:...

     (1919–2003), actor
  • Ray Stark
    Ray Stark
    Ray Stark was an American film producer and powerbroker known for his Machiavellian ways.While putting together the Broadway musical Funny Girl - the highly fictionalized account of the life of his mother-in-law, Fanny Brice - its producer David Merrick took Stark and his wife to see an unknown...

     (1915–2004), film producer
  • Josef von Sternberg
    Josef von Sternberg
    Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...

     (1894–1969), film director
  • Donald Stewart (1930–1999), screenwriter
  • Viola Kates Stimpson (1906–2008), actress
  • Dorothy Stratten
    Dorothy Stratten
    Dorothy Stratten was a Canadian model and actress. Stratten was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979, Playmate of the Year in 1980 and was the second Playmate born in the 1960s. Stratten appeared in three comedy films and at least two episodes of shows broadcast on US network...

     (1960–1980), actress, Playboy Playmate, murder victim
  • Danny Sugerman
    Danny Sugerman
    Daniel Stephen "Danny" Sugerman was the second manager of the Los Angeles-based rock band The Doors, and wrote several books about Jim Morrison and The Doors, including No One Here Gets Out Alive , and the autobiography Wonderland Avenue...

     (1954–2005), writer, rock band manager
  • Jennifer Syme
    Jennifer Syme
    Jennifer Maria Syme was an American actress and production assistant. She was best known for her role in Lost Highway, and for her relationship with actor Keanu Reeves.-Early life and career:...

     (1972–2001), actress

T

  • Marian Tally (1906–1983), soprano
  • Don Taylor (actor)
    Don Taylor (actor)
    Don Taylor was an American movie actor and director best known for his performances in 1950s classics like Stalag 17 and Father of the Bride and the 1948 film noir The Naked City...

     (1920–1998), actor
  • Kent Taylor
    Kent Taylor
    Kent Taylor was an American actor.Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including I'm No Angel , Death Takes a Holiday , Payment on Demand ,...

     (1907–1987), actor
  • Irene Tedrow
    Irene Tedrow
    Irene Tedrow was an American character actress in stage, film, television and radio. Tedrow is also the mother of actress Enid Kent.-Career:...

     (1907–1995), actress
  • William C. Thomas (1903–1984), film producer
  • Marshall Thompson
    Marshall Thompson
    Marshall Thompson was an American film and television actor.He was born James Marshall Thompson in Peoria, Illinois. In 1943 Thompson, known for his boy-next-door good looks, was signed by Universal Pictures...

     (1925–1992), actor
  • Ernst Toch
    Ernst Toch
    Ernst Toch was a composer of classical music and film scores.- Biography :Toch, born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith, sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music...

     (1887–1964), composer
  • Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

     (1925–1999), singer, actor
  • Frank Tours (1877–1963), music director
  • Helen Traubel
    Helen Traubel
    Helen Francesca Traubel was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she began her career as a concert singer and went on to sing at the Metropolitan...

     (1899–1972), opera soprano
  • Les Tremayne
    Les Tremayne
    Les Tremayne was a radio, film, and television actor. Born Lester Tremayne in England, he moved with his family at the age four to Chicago, where he began in community theatre. He danced as a vaudeville performer and worked as amusement park barker...

     (1913–2003), actor
  • Frank Tuttle
    Frank Tuttle
    Frank Tuttle was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 to 1959 ....

     (1892–1963), screenwriter, producer

V

  • Sigrid Valdis
    Sigrid Valdis
    Sigrid Valdis was the stage name of Patricia Annette Olson, an American actress. She was best known for playing Hilda on Hogan's Heroes.-Early life and career:Valdis began acting in the late 1950s...

     (1935–2007), actress, widow of Bob Crane
  • John Vivyan
    John Vivyan
    John Vivyan was an American actor active primarily between 1957 and 1970. He was known for his starring role as the honest debonair gambler in the CBS adventure series Mr. Lucky.-Early life and career:Born John C...

     (1915–1983), actor

W

  • Charles Wagenheim, 1896–1979), actor
  • June Walker
    June Walker
    June Walker was an American stage and film actress. She appeared on Broadway in such plays as Green Grow the Lilacs, The Farmer Takes a Wife, and Twelfth Night...

     (1900–1966), actress
  • Ray Walston
    Ray Walston
    Ray Walston was an American stage, television and film actor best known as the title character on the 1960s situation comedy My Favorite Martian. In addition, he is also remembered for his roles as Luther Billis in South Pacific , Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees , J.J...

     (1914–2001), actor, was cremated here
  • Pat Walshe
    Pat Walshe
    Pat Walshe was an American dwarf actor and animal impersonator. He was most famous for playing Nikko, the head of the Winged Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. He appeared in only three films, and most of his work was in theatre...

     (1900–1991), actor
  • Harry Warren
    Harry Warren
    Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...

     (1893–1981), songwriter
  • Brooks West (1916–1984), actor
  • Winifred Westover
    Winifred Westover
    Winifred Westover was a Hollywood actress of the 1910s and 1920s.Winifred Westover was born in San Francisco, California. On screen, Westover was the typical blushing ingenue and was almost always cast opposite robust leading men.Her career in film started with a small part in D. W. Griffith's...

     (1899–1978), actress
  • Chrissie White
    Chrissie White
    Chrissie White was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. She starred in...

     (1895–1989), silent film actress
  • Herbert Wiere (1908–1999), performer
  • Cornel Wilde
    Cornel Wilde
    Cornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...

     (1915–1989), actor
  • Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...

     (1906–2002), movie director
  • Carl Wilson
    Carl Wilson
    Carl Dean Wilson was an American rock and roll singer and guitarist, best known as a founding member, lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist of The Beach Boys...

     (1946–1998), singer
  • Darbi Winters (1946–1962), actress
  • Estelle Winwood
    Estelle Winwood
    Estelle Winwood was an English stage and film actress who moved to the United States in mid-career and became celebrated for her longevity.-Early life and early career:...

     (1883–1984), actress
  • Clay Womack (1892–1948), actor
  • Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the...

     (1938–1981), actress

Z

  • Darryl F. Zanuck
    Darryl F. Zanuck
    Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American producer, writer, actor, director and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors...

     (1902–1979), head of 20th Century Fox
    20th Century Fox
    Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

     studios
  • Virginia Zanuck (1908–1982), actress, wife of Darryl
  • Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa
    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

     (1940–1993), composer, musician, satirist, leader of The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention were an American band active from 1964 to 1969, and again from 1970 to 1975.They mainly performed works by, and were the original recording group of, US composer and guitarist Frank Zappa , although other members have had the occasional writing credit...

    ; grave is unmarked

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