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Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, CA

CEMETERY

Originally, Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery.

Official Website:
http://www.hollywoodforever.com/

Location:
Hollywood, CA

Founding Date:
1899

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Don Adams
Actor
13-Apr-1926 25-Sep-2005 Maxwell Smart on Get Smart
Renée Adorée
Actor
30-Sep-1898 5-Oct-1933 The Big Parade
Adrian
Fashion Designer
3-Mar-1903 13-Sep-1959 Head of wardrobe for Cecil B. DeMille
Spottiswoode Aitken
Actor
16-Apr-1868 26-Feb-1933 Silent film actor
Gertrude Astor
Actor
9-Nov-1887 9-Nov-1977 The Cat and the Canary
George Barbier
Actor
19-Nov-1864 19-Jul-1945 Life Begins at Forty
William Beaudine
Film Director
15-Jan-1892 18-Mar-1970 Billy the Kid versus Dracula
Herman Bing
Actor
30-Mar-1889 9-Jan-1947 1930s character actor
Mr. Blackwell
Critic
29-Aug-1922 19-Oct-2008 Issued an annual "Worst-Dressed List"
Mel Blanc
Actor
30-May-1908 10-Jul-1989 Man of 1,000 Voices
El Brendel
Actor
25-Mar-1890 9-Apr-1964 Former vaudevillian, Wings
Felix Bressart
Actor
2-Mar-1892 17-Mar-1949 To Be or Not to Be
Edward Bunker
Author
31-Dec-1933 19-Jul-2005 Animal Factory
Louis Calhern
Actor
19-Feb-1895 12-May-1956 Duck Soup
Lana Clarkson
Actor
5-Apr-1962 3-Feb-2003 Barbarian Queen
Iron Eyes Cody
Actor
3-Apr-1904 4-Jan-1999 Keep America Beautiful
Lois Collier
Actor
21-Mar-1919 27-Oct-1999 Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie
Violet Kemble Cooper
Actor
12-Dec-1886 17-Aug-1961 Our Betters
Lloyd Corrigan
Actor
16-Oct-1900 5-Nov-1969 Arthur Manleder in Boston Blackie films
James Cruze
Film Director
27-Mar-1884 3-Aug-1942 If I Had a Million
Irving Cummings
Film Director
9-Oct-1888 18-Apr-1959 In Old Arizona
Bebe Daniels
Actor
14-Jan-1901 16-Mar-1971 42nd Street
Marion Davies
Actor
3-Jan-1897 22-Sep-1961 When Knighthood Was in Flower
Cecil B. DeMille
Film Director
12-Aug-1881 21-Jan-1959 Pioneering film director
Gloria Dickson
Actor
13-Aug-1916 10-Apr-1945 They Won't Forget
Frances Drake
Actor
22-Oct-1912 18-Jan-2000 WWII pinup girl, also actress
Nelson Eddy
Singer
29-Jun-1901 6-Mar-1967 Phantom of the Opera
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Actor
9-Dec-1909 7-May-2000 Sinbad the Sailor
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Actor
23-May-1883 12-Dec-1939 The Thief of Baghdad
Julia Faye
Actor
24-Sep-1893 6-Apr-1966 Silent film actress
Peter Finch
Actor
28-Sep-1916 14-Jan-1977 Network
Victor Fleming
Film Director
23-Feb-1883 6-Jan-1949 Gone With the Wind
Sidney Franklin
Film Director
21-Mar-1893 18-May-1972 The Good Earth
Kathleen Freeman
Actor
17-Feb-1919 23-Aug-2001 Gen. Burkhalter's sister
Janet Gaynor
Actor
6-Oct-1906 14-Sep-1984 A Star Is Born
Estelle Getty
Actor
25-Jul-1923 22-Jul-2008 The Golden Girls
Leo Gordon
Actor
2-Dec-1922 26-Dec-2000 Riot in Cell Block 11
Joan Hackett
Actor
1-Mar-1934 8-Oct-1983 Only When I Laugh
Woody Herman
Jazz Musician
16-May-1913 29-Oct-1987 1940s Big Band leader, jazz clarinetist
Darla Hood
Actor
8-Nov-1931 13-Jun-1979 The Little Rascals
H. Bruce Humberstone
Film Director
18-Nov-1901 11-Oct-1984 Directed several Charlie Chan films
John Huston
Film Director
5-Aug-1906 28-Aug-1987 The Maltese Falcon
Steve James
Actor
19-Feb-1952 18-Dec-1993 American Ninja
Rick Jason
Actor
21-May-1923 16-Oct-2000 Lt. Gil Hanley on Combat!
Theodore von Kármán
Mathematician
11-May-1881 7-May-1963 Kármán vortices
Roscoe Karns
Actor
7-Sep-1891 6-Feb-1970 It Happened One Night
Tom Kennedy
Actor
15-Jul-1885 6-Oct-1965 Character actor, 1910s to 1960s
Michael Kidd
Choreographer
12-Aug-1915 23-Dec-2007 Award-winning choreographer
Frederick Kohner
Novelist
25-Sep-1905 7-Jul-1986 Gidget
Zoltán Korda
Film Director
3-Jun-1895 13-Oct-1961 Sahara
Don LaFontaine
Actor
26-Aug-1940 1-Sep-2008 Voiceover powerhouse
Arthur Lake
Actor
17-Apr-1905 9-Jan-1987 Dagwood Bumstead
Walter Long
Actor
5-Mar-1879 4-Jul-1952 The Birth of a Nation
Peter Lorre
Actor
26-Jun-1904 23-Mar-1964 The Maltese Falcon
Tully Marshall
Actor
13-Apr-1864 10-Mar-1943 The Covered Wagon
Joe May
Film Director
7-Nov-1880 29-Apr-1954 The Invisible Man Returns
Archie Mayo
Film Director
29-Jan-1891 4-Dec-1968 The Adventures of Marco Polo
Darren McGavin
Actor
7-May-1922 25-Feb-2006 A Christmas Story
Adolphe Menjou
Actor
18-Feb-1890 29-Oct-1963 A Farewell to Arms
Paul Muni
Actor
22-Sep-1895 25-Aug-1967 The Life of Louis Pasteur
Anita O'Day
Singer/Songwriter
18-Oct-1919 23-Nov-2006 Feminine master of scat
Gordon Oliver
Actor
27-Apr-1910 26-Jan-1995 The Spiral Staircase
Joan Perry
Actor
7-Jul-1911 16-Sep-1996 Bullets for O'Hara
Eleanor Powell
Dancer
21-Nov-1912 11-Feb-1982 Lady Be Good
Tyrone Power
Actor
5-May-1913 15-Nov-1958 Witness for the Prosecution
Frank Puglia
Actor
9-Mar-1892 25-Oct-1975 20 Million Miles to Earth
Dee Dee Ramone
Bassist
18-Sep-1952 5-Jun-2002 Former bassist, The Ramones
Johnny Ramone
Musician
8-Oct-1951 15-Sep-2004 The Ramones
Virginia Rappe
Victim
7-Jul-1891 9-Sep-1921 Fatty Arbuckle scandal
Nelson Riddle
Composer
1-Jun-1921 6-Oct-1985 Bandleader, orchestral arranger
Edward G. Robinson, Jr.
Relative
19-Mar-1933 26-Feb-1974 Edward G. Robinson's troubled son
Ann Savage
Actor
19-Feb-1921 25-Dec-2008 Detour
Joseph Schildkraut
Actor
22-Mar-1896 21-Jan-1964 The Life of Emile Zola
Vito Scotti
Actor
26-Jan-1918 5-Jun-1996 Character actor, 1950s to 1990s
Ann Sheridan
Actor
21-Feb-1915 21-Jan-1967 Torrid Zone
Bugsy Siegel
Criminal
28-Feb-1906 20-Jun-1947 Brought the mob to Las Vegas
Vladimir Sokoloff
Actor
26-Dec-1889 15-Feb-1962 For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gene Stratton Porter
Novelist
17-Aug-1863 7-Dec-1924 A Girl of the Limberlost
Yma Sumac
Singer
10-Sep-1924 1-Nov-2008 Vocalist with a 4.5-octave range
Carl Switzer
Actor
7-Aug-1927 21-Jan-1959 Alfalfa in Our Gang
Norma Talmadge
Actor
26-May-1893 24-Dec-1957 Du Barry, Woman of Passion
William Desmond Taylor
Film Director
26-Apr-1872 1-Feb-1922 Early Hollywood director, murdered
Verree Teasdale
Actor
15-Mar-1904 17-Feb-1987 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jameson Thomas
Actor
24-Mar-1888 10-Jan-1939 British stage, minor Hollywood actor
Edgar G. Ulmer
Film Director
17-Sep-1904 30-Sep-1972 Detour
Rudolph Valentino
Actor
6-May-1895 23-Aug-1926 Latin lover of the silent film era
Jean Wallace
Actor
12-Oct-1923 14-Feb-1990 The Big Combo
Clifton Webb
Actor
11-Nov-1889 13-Oct-1966 Laura
David White
Actor
4-Apr-1916 27-Nov-1990 Larry Tate on Bewitched
Fay Wray
Actor
15-Sep-1907 8-Aug-2004 King Kong
Carleton Young
Actor
21-Oct-1905 7-Nov-1994 20000 Leagues Under the Sea




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