Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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 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
- Renée Adorée, 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
- 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 DeMille, director, brother of Cecil B. DeMille
E
- Nelson Eddy, singer, actor
F
- Douglas Fairbanks, 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
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