Hollywood Forever Cemetery

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California. It is adjacent to the north wall, or back, of Paramount Studios. The Beth Olam Cemetery, which can be found in the southwestern section of the cemetery, was set aside for members of Hollywood's Jewish community.

Founded in 1899 as Hollywood Cemetery, by the latter part of the 20th century it had become quite rundown. Allegations of financial mismanagement caused the state of California to forbid the sale of plots. On the verge of closure in a bankruptcy proceeding, the Forever Network purchased it in 1998, renamed it "Hollywood Forever," and restored and refurbished it.

Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery are a number of important personalities, famous persons, including men and women from the entertainment industry, important people in the history of Los Angeles, and their relatives. Some of the tombs are quite lavish.

Burials continue to occur from time to time, including Fay Wray's funeral in 2004, as the longtime ban on the sale of plots, which was rescinded when the Forever Network restored the cemetery, has meant that plenty of space for future graves remains.

List

(Note this is a partial list.)

Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• David Abel, (1883-1973) Motion Picture Cinematographer
• Walter Ackerman (1881-1938) Motion picture actor
• Don Adams (1923-2005) actor, "Get Smart"
• John Bertram Adams (1891-1940) Major League Baseball Player
• Louis Adlon (1908 - 1947) Motion picture actor
• Renée Adorée, French actress (1898-1933)
• Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, "Adrian" was chief designer for MGM (1903-1959)
• Helen Ainsworth (1902 - 1961) Stage and Motion Picture actress, and producer
• James Alexander (1914-1961) Motion picture actor
• Lester Allen (1891-1949) Motion picture actor
• Murray Alper (1904-1984) Motion picture actor
• Sylvia Ashley, English actress and society beauty, gained titles of Lady and Princess by marriage (1904-1977)
• Agnes Ayres, actress (1898-1940)
• A.E. Anson (1879-1936) Motion picture actor
• Art Arthur (1911-1985) Screenwriter
• Jessica Pepper Arthur (1913-2003) Motion Picture actress
• Gertrude Astor (1877-1977) Motion Picture actress
• Charles Avery (1873-1926) Motion picture actor

B

• Fred J. Balshofer, film director/producer
• Leah Baird, Actress (1883-1971)
• William Beaudine, film director
• Tony Beckley, actor
• Elmer Berger, inventor of the rear-view mirror (1891-1952)
• Herman Bing, character actor
• Mel Blanc, voice of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Blanc's tombstone features one of the cemetery's most famous epitaphs: "That's all, folks!" (1908-1989)
• Peter Bruni, actor

C

• Louis Calhern
• Charles Chaplin Jr., actor, son of Charlie Chaplin
• Hannah Chaplin, mother of Charlie Chaplin
• Chief Luther Standing Bear, Sioux Nation actor
• Al Christie, director, producer, screenwriter
• Charles Christie, movie studio owner
• William Andrews Clark, Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
• Otto Classen, artist
• Iron Eyes Cody, Native American actor
• Harry Cohn, executive of Columbia Pictures
• Alan Crosland, director

D

• Karl Dane, silent actor
• Bebe Daniels, actress
• Joe Dassin, American born, French pop singer
• Marion Davies, actress
• Cecil B. DeMille, director, producer
• William C. DeMille, director, brother of Cecil B. DeMille
• Molly Dodd, actress

E

• Maude Eburne, actress
• Nelson Eddy, singer, actor

F

• Douglas Fairbanks, actor
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., actor, highly decorated WW II naval officer
• Maude Fealy, stage and film actress
• Charles K. Feldman, agent, film producer
• Walter L. Ferris, screenwriter
• Peter Finch, actor, starred in Network and said, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
• Victor Fleming, movie director, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind

G

• William Gable, father of actor Clark Gable
• Ed Gardner, comedic actor
• Janet Gaynor, actress, first Academy Award winner as Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Maury Gertsman, cinematographer
• Elinor Remick Griffin, composer
• Griffith J. Griffith, park and observatory donor

H

• Joan Hackett, actress
• Kenneth Harlan, actor
• Mildred Harris, actress
• Wanda Hawley, actress
• Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, wife of Ernest Hemingway
• Woody Herman, bandleader
• Darla Hood, child actress, Darla in Our Gang movies, which were later televised as The Little Rascals
• David Horsley, built the first Hollywood movie studio
• Jean Howard, actress, photographer
• John Huston, director, screenwriter and actor in the film "Chinatown" (1974)

I

J

• Walter Jurmann, composer

K

• Bronisław Kaper, composer
• Zoltán Korda British director
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer

L

• Arthur Lake, actor, Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie movies
• Barbara La Marr, actress
• Martin Landau, agent, his client was Jean Harlow
• Jesse L. Lasky, pioneer, founded Famous Players-Lasky, which became Paramount Pictures
• Jesse Lasky, Jr., screenwriter, son of Jesse Lasky
• Florence Lawrence, actress, known as "the Biograph Girl" and as "the first movie star"
• Henry Lehrman, film director
• Elmo Lincoln, actor
• Peter Lorre, actor
• Ben Lyon, actor

M

• Leo D. Maloney, pioneer actor, director, producer
• Jayne Mansfield, actress, (She has a cenotaph; she is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania)
• Tully Marshall, film and stage actor, producer, director
• Hattie McDaniel, actress, first African-American to win an Academy Award (She has a cenotaph; she is buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery)
• Adolphe Menjou, actor
• Charles B. Middleton, actor (Emperor Ming the Merciless)
• Arthur C. Miller, cinematographer
• Laura Spellman-Middleton, actress
• Paul Muni, actor

N

• Dudley Nichols, screenwriter

O

• Harrison Gray Otis, Los Angeles Times publisher

P

• Eleanor Powell, actress, tap dancer
• Tyrone Power, actor

Q

• Christopher Quinn, (1938-1941), child of actor Anthony Quinn who died in a drowning accident

R

• Dee Dee Ramone, musician and member of The Ramones
• Johnny Ramone, musician and member of The Ramones, (He has a cenotaph, which is a bronze statue in his guitar-playing mold)
• Virginia Rappe, actress, the woman Fatty Arbuckle was accused of killing during a wild party in San Francisco, creating Hollywood's first major scandal
• Marie Rappold, opera singer
• Pedro Regas, actor
• Nelson Riddle, musician, composer, band leader
• Al Ritz, actor, part of the "Ritz Brothers"
• Harry Ritz, actor, part of the "Ritz Brothers"
• Jimmy Ritz, actor, part of the "Ritz Brothers"
• Theodore Roberts, actor
• Edward G. Robinson, Jr., son of actor Edward G. Robinson

S

• Joseph Schildkraut, actor, best known for playing the father of Anne Frank in the movie The Diary of Anne Frank
• Leon Schlesinger, head of animation at Warner Bros.
• Rolfe Sedan, actor
• Aron Semel, Holocaust survivor
• Peggy Shannon, actress
• Bugsy Siegel, gangster, built first fancy gambling casino on "the Strip" in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Ford Sterling, actor
• Carl Switzer, child actor, Alfalfa in Our Gang movies, which were later televised as The Little Rascals

T

• Constance Talmadge, actress
• Natalie Talmadge, actress
• Norma Talmadge, actress
• Eva Tanguay, singer, Vaudeville star
• William Desmond Taylor, movie director, murder victim (unsolved), crypt is marked with his birth name, William Deane Tanner
• Gregg Toland, cinematographer, famous for movies such as Citizen Kane, The Little Foxes and Intermezzo among others

U

V

• Rudolph Valentino, actor

W

• Jean Wallace, actress
• Clifton Webb, actor
• David White, actor
• Jonathan White, son of actor David White. was killed in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988
• Mae E. White, grandmother of Carol Burnett. When Carol tugged on her ear at the end of her TV show it was a signal to her grandmother
• Harvey Henderson Wilcox, founded the city of Hollywood California
• Fay Wray, actress

X

Y

• Victor Young, composer

Z

• Eric Zeisl, composer

See also

• Haunted Hollywood
• List of famous cemeteries (non-U.S.)
• List of United States cemeteries

References

• L.A. Times, August 15, 1899, "Incorporated. The Hollywood Cemetery Association filed articles of incorporation yesterday"

External links

• Hollywood Forever Cemetery Site