Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica
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Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
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- Hugo BallinHugo BallinHugo Ballin was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York. When the Wisconsin State Capital was built in the early 20th Century, Ballin created 26 murals for its interior...
(1879–1956), artist - Mabel BallinMabel BallinMabel Ballin was an American motion-picture actress of the silent film era.-Early life and career:Born Mabel Croft in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she originally studied painting. Her landscapes were noticed at an exhibition and led to an offer to appear in films. Ballin appeared in 28 films...
(1887–1958), Actress - George BancroftGeorge Bancroft (actor)George Bancroft was an American Hollywood film actor of the 1920s and '30s.-Biography:Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. During his early days as a sailor he staged plays on board ship. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become a "black...
(1882–1956), actor - Jay BelascoJay BelascoJay Belasco was an American film actor whose career mostly involved silent film.He starred with William Garwood in films such as Lord John in New York....
(1888–1949), actor - Ted BessellTed BessellTed Bessell was an American television actor and director.-Early career:Born in Flushing, New York, Bessell grew up in Manhasset on Long Island, New York. He was originally gearing up for a career as a classical musician...
(1935–1996), actor - Charles BickfordCharles BickfordCharles Bickford was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette , The Farmer's Daughter , and Johnny Belinda...
(1891–1967), actor - Barbara BillingsleyBarbara BillingsleyBarbara Billingsley was an American film, television, voice and stage actress. She gained prominence in the 1950s movie The Careless Years, acting opposite Natalie Trundy, followed by her best–known role, that of June Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver and its sequel Still...
(1915–2010), actress - William BishopWilliam BishopWilliam Bishop was the first Roman Catholic bishop after the English Reformation. Officially, he was the titular bishop of Chalcedon, his territory included all of England, Wales and Scotland....
(1918–1959), actor - Bonnie BonnellBonnie BonnellBonnie Bonnell was an actress who played "straight woman" in seven early short comedies, most of which featured The Three Stooges when they worked with Ted Healy between 1933 and 1934.-Career:...
(1905–1964), actress - Edwina BoothEdwina BoothEdwina Booth was an American actress. She is best known for the 1931 film Trader Horn, during the filming of which she contracted an illness which effectively ruined her movie career.-Career:...
(1904–1991), actress - Edward BrophyEdward BrophyEdward S. Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he was known for portraying gangsters, both serious and comic.-Career:...
(1895–1960), actor - Octavia Broske (1886–1967), actress, wife of George BancroftGeorge Bancroft (actor)George Bancroft was an American Hollywood film actor of the 1920s and '30s.-Biography:Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. During his early days as a sailor he staged plays on board ship. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become a "black...
- Leo CarrilloLeo CarrilloLeopoldo Antonio Carrillo , was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.-Family roots:...
(1880–1961), actor, prominent preservationist - Joseph Chorre (1914–1987), actor
- Doris Cook (1904–2007)
- Henry CuestaHenry CuestaHenry Falcon Cuesta was an American-born musician who was a member of The Lawrence Welk Show. His primary instrument was the clarinet....
(1931–2003), musician - Faye DancerFaye DancerFaye Katherine Dancer was a center fielder who played from through for three different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
(1925–2002), professional baseball player - Henry DaniellHenry DaniellHenry Daniell was an English actor, best known for his villainous movie roles, but who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films....
(1894–1963), actor - John Dawson (1830–1918), pioneer
- John DodsworthJohn DodsworthJohn George Dodsworth was an English professional footballer who played as a right-half. Born in Darlington, County Durham, he joined the Darlington reserve team in March 1928 and played his only league game for the club on 5 May 1928 in the 1–3 defeat away at Rotherham United...
(1910–1964), actor - Weston and Winston Doty (1913–1934), acting twins, drowned in a flood
- Cathy DownsCathy DownsCathy Downs was an American film actress.Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine...
(1924–1976), actress - Elvin "Ducky" Drake (1903–1988), UCLA Track Coach, Football & Basketball Trainer
- Vernon DukeVernon DukeVernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...
(1893–1969), songwriter, (removed) - Albert Duncun (1886–1960), actor
- Margaret EhrlichMargaret EhrlichMargaret Ehrlich was a dancer and motion picture actress from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her career in Hollywood was cut short by an auto accident.Her true surname was Earlich. She was a graduate of Santa Monica High School....
(1917–1936), actress - Lion FeuchtwangerLion FeuchtwangerLion Feuchtwanger was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht....
(1884–1958), author - Paul FixPaul FixPaul Fix was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in westerns. Fix appeared in more than a hundred movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career spanning from 1925 to 1981...
(1901–1983), actor - Glenn FordGlenn FordGlenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...
(1916–2006), actor - Leland Ford (1893–1965), congressman
- Ika Gruning (1876–1964), actress
- William HainesWilliam HainesCharles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...
(1900–1973), film actor, interior designer - Paul Henreid (1908–1992), film actor, director
- Phil HillPhil HillPhilip Toll Hill, Jr., was a United States automobile racer and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship. Hill was described as a "thoughtful, gentle man" and once said, "I'm in the wrong business. I don't want to beat anybody, I don't want to be the big hero...
(1927–2008), race car driver - Evelyn HookerEvelyn HookerEvelyn Hooker was a North American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual" in which she administered psychological tests to groups of self-identified homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts, based on those tests alone, to select the...
(1907–1996), psychologist - Richard Hylton (1920–1962), film and TV actor
- Olaf HyttenOlaf HyttenOlaf Hytten was a Scottish film actor. He appeared in over 280 films between 1921 and 1955.He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack...
(1888–1955), actor - Abbot KinneyAbbot KinneyAbbot Kinney was a developer and conservationist. Kinney is best known for his "Venice of America" development in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
(1850–1920), real estate baron - Ted Kholer (1894–1973), lyricist
- Harvey KormanHarvey KormanHarvey Herschel Korman was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions beginning in 1960...
(1927–2008), actor - Henry KuttnerHenry KuttnerHenry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.-Early life:Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915...
(1915–1958), author - Florence LakeFlorence LakeFor the reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, see Florence Lake .Florence Lake was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.-Early life:In the early 1900s, her father and uncle toured with a circus in an aerial act known as...
(1904–1980), actress - Baron Leone (1909–1988), wrestler
- Audra LindleyAudra LindleyAudra Marie Lindley was an American actress, most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers.-Career:...
(1918–1997), actress, "Mrs. Roper" on television's Three's CompanyThree's CompanyThree's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House....
- Bert Lindley (1873–1953), actor, father of Audra LindleyAudra LindleyAudra Marie Lindley was an American actress, most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers.-Career:...
- Christine MacIntyre (-Sept. 16, 1987), women's free weight fitness pioneer, founding editor of Shape magazine
- Hughie MackHughie MackHughie Mack was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 195 films between 1910 and 1928.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Santa Monica, California.-Selected filmography:...
(1884–1927), actor - Doug McClureDoug McClureDouglas Osborne "Doug" McClure was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s...
(1935–1995), actor - Catherine Macleod (1921–1997), actress
- J.B. Nethercutt (1914–2004), cosmetics guru
- Merle Norman, cosmetics guru
- Red NorvoRed NorvoRed Norvo was one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba and later the vibraphone as viable jazz instruments...
(1908–1999), jazz musician - George Ogden (1871–1966), author
- Lynne OvermanLynne OvermanLynne Overman was a film actor in the 1930s and early-1940s who often played a sidekick.-Selected filmography:* Dixie * The Desert Song * The Forest Rangers...
(1887–1943), actress - Christabel PankhurstChristabel PankhurstDame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE , was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914 she became a fervent supporter of the war against Germany...
(1880–1958), British suffragette - Walter PerryWalter PerryWalter Laing MacDonald Perry, Baron Perry of Walton FRS FRCP FRSE was a distinguished academic. He was the first Vice Chancellor of the Open University....
(1868–1954), actor - Jimmy Phipps (1950–1969), Vietnam soldier
- Beverly Pratt (1923–1979), actress
- Janos ProhaskaJanos ProhaskaJanos Prohaska was a Hungarian United States based actor and stunt performer on American television from the 1960s. He usually played the roles of animals or monsters....
(1919–1974), actor, stuntman - Frances Raeburn (1924–1976), actress
- Bill RaischBill RaischCarl William Raisch , was an American dancer and actor.A dancer who worked for Ziegfeld Follies in the 1930s, he lost his right arm while serving in the United States Navy in 1945 during World War II. He played bit parts in several movies; his most memorable film role was in a famous fight scene...
(1905–1984), actor - Blanche RobinsonBlanche RobinsonBlanche Robinson was an American composer and well-known piano accompanist. During her prolific years as a composer, she lived in New York City. During her more active years as a piano accompanist, she lived in Los Angeles...
(1883–1969), pianist & composer - Irene RyanIrene RyanIrene Ryan was an American actress, one of the few entertainers who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television and Broadway....
(1902–1973), actress, "Granny" on TV's The Beverly HillbilliesThe Beverly HillbilliesThe Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.... - Hayes "Big Ed" Sanders (1930–1954), Olympic boxing champion
- Elzie C. Segar (1894–1938), cartoonist, creator of "PopeyePopeyePopeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...
" - Jimmie Shields (1905–1974), interior designer
- Hal SmithHal Smith (actor)Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...
(1916–1994), actor, Otis CampbellOtis CampbellOtis Campbell is the fictional "town drunk" in Mayberry on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. Otis was played by Hal Smith and made frequent appearances on the show from 1960 to 1967,...
on The Andy Griffith ShowThe Andy Griffith ShowThe Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina... - Christian Steinle (1878–1986), Spanish-American war veteran
- May SuttonMay SuttonMay Godfrey Sutton was a tennis champion and the first American to win the singles title at Wimbledon.-Biography:...
(1886–1975), U.S. and Wimbledon tennis champion - Sandor Szabo (1906–1966), wrestler
- William Tuttle (1912–2007), make-up artist
- Jesse Unruh (1922–1987), California assembly speaker, state treasurer
- Erich Von Stroheim Jr. (1916–1968), actor, director, son of Erich Von StroheimErich von StroheimErich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...
- Fay Webb (1907–1936), stage and silent film actress