hollywood forever cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California, adjacent to the north side of Paramount Studios. It was founded in 1899 as Hollywood Cemetery. In 1998, the cemetery was purchased by the Forever Network, who restored and refurbished it and gave it a new name, Hollywood Forever. Beth Olam is a Jewish cemetery within the grounds of Hollywood Forever. Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery are a number of important personalities, famous persons, including men and women from the entertainment industry, et cetera, and their relatives. Some of the tombs are quite lavish.

List

(Note this is a partial list.) Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

A

Rene Adore, French actress
Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, "Adrian" was chief designer for MGM
Louis Aldon, actor
Sylvia Ashley, English actress and society beauty, gained titles of Lady and Princess by marriage, widow of Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.) and divorced Clark Gable
Agnes Ayres, actress

B

Tony Beckley, actor
Elmer Berger, inventor of the rear-view mirror
Herman Bing, character actor
Mel Blanc, voice of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Peter Bruni, actor

C

Louis Calhern
Charles Chaplin, Jr., actor, son of Charlie Chaplin
Al Christie, director, producer, screenwriter
Charles Christie, movie studio owner
William Clark, Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Otto Classen, artist
Iron Eyes Cody, Native American actor
Harry Cohn, executive of Columbia Pictures

D

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

E

Nelson Eddy, singer, actor

F

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor, highly decorated military hero of WW II
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
Janet Gaynor, actress, first Academy Award winner as Best Actress in a Leading Role
Maury Gertsman, cinematographer
Griffith J. Griffith, park and observatory donor

H

Joan Hackett, actress
Wanda Hawley, silent screen 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
John Huston, director

I

J

Walter Jurmann, composer

K

Zoltan Korda (1895-1961)
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"
Peter Lorre, actor
Ben Lyon, actor

M

Jayne Mansfield, actress, (She has a cenotaph; she is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania)
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
Paul Muni, actor

N

O

Harrison Gray Otis, Los Angeles Times publisher

P

Eleanor Powell, actress, tap dancer
Tyrone Power, actor

Q

Christopher Quinn, three year old son 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. Though not interred here, there is a bronze statue in his guitar-playing mold on the cemetery grounds.
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
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 Schlessinger, head of animation at Warner Bros.
Rolfe Sedan, actor
Peggy Shannon, actress
Bugsy Siegel, gangster, built first fancy gambling casino on "the Strip" in Las Vegas, Nevada
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
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
Fay Wray, actress