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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.
Contents: Top - 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
B
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
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
- Arthur Lake, actor, played Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie movies
- Barbara LaMarr, actress
- Martin Landau, agent, his client was Jean Harlow
- Jesse 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
N
O
P
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
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Z
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