Forest Lawn Memorial Park â€" Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in southern California. It is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, California 90068, in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. It is on the lower north slope at the east end of the Santa Monica Mountains range that overlooks North Hollywood, Universal City, and Burbank, and the overall San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
Forest Lawn â€" Hollywood Hills is a park dedicated to the preservation of American history and hosts high-profile events such as an annual Veterans Day ceremony attended by dignitaries and other VIPs. Los Angeles Magazine described it as a "theme-park necropolis", paraphrasing Jessica Mitford, indicating "Forest Lawn’s kitsch was just a sophisticated strategy for lubricating the checkbooks of the grieved."
Features
FAMOUS GRAVE TOUR - Forest Lawn Hollywood #1 (Bette Davis, Liberace, etc.) - Welcome to Hollywood Graveyard, where we set out to remember and celebrate the lives of those who lived to entertain us, by visiting their final resting places. Today we're exploring Forest...
The park features such sights as:
Court of Liberty
- The Court of Liberty features statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the Birth of Liberty mosaic. At 162 feet (49 m) long and 28 feet (8.5 m) high, Birth of Liberty is the largest historical mosaic in the United States. It is composed of ten million pieces of Venetian glass and depicts twenty-five scenes from early America, from 1619â€"1787.
- The Old North Church, a precise replica of Boston's historic church, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride". The historical rooms have documents and mementos of the colonial period.
- The Hall of Liberty American History Museum has a copy of the Liberty Bell and other exhibits. The museum has a 1,200-seat auditorium.
- Monument to Washington, a marble and bronze tribute to America's first president, created by sculptor Thomas Ball. Four of Washington's generals are honored in the memorial.
Lincoln Terrace
- The Lincoln Terrace features a 16-foot (4.9Â m) bronze statue of the 16th president by Augustus St. Gaudens, flanked by a panoramic mosaic depicting key scenes from Lincoln's life.
Plaza of Mesoamerican Heritage
- The Plaza of Mesoamerican Heritage has indigenous/non-Christian sculptures by Meliton Salas Rodriguez, of Guadalajara, Mexico. Salas used hand tools to first quarry, then work the native Mexican stone into precisely scaled, detailed replicas of pagan artwork and artifacts that are representative of the Aztec, Huastec, Maya, Mixtec, Olmec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Totonac, and Zapotec civilizations that preceded modern Mexican culture and is in contrast to the largely Judeo-Christian and American themes which have traditionally been the theme at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills since its inception. A smooth Olmecan head, an intricate Aztec sun calendar and a sinuous Teotihuacan bas relief are some of the sculptural features of the Plaza that are set off by crushed stone walkways and complemented by groupings of Mesoamerican plants.
History
The first Forest Lawn, in Glendale, was founded in 1906 by businessmen who hired Dr. Hubert Eaton, a firm believer in a joyous life after death. He believed that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards," and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic beliefs and be "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness." He envisioned Forest Lawn to be "a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, beautiful statuary, and... memorial architecture".
Before it was a cemetery, Forest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as Carl Laemmle and Cecil B. DeMille. The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation were filmed there. The alternate names of the filming site are Providencia Flats, Nestor Ranch, Oak Ranch, Oak Crest Ranch, Universal Ranch/Universal City, Lasky Ranch, and Paramount Ranch until November 1927.
When Eaton (self-proclaimed as "The Builder") made known his desire to open a second Forest Lawn location in the Hollywood Hills, the local residents protested vehemently. To circumvent the protesters, Mr. Eaton sent his staff to the county morgue to claim 6 "John Does" and buried them at the corners of the property in the dark of night. In the morning, the protesters had no power because, by law, the property was now a cemetery.
California Health and Safety Code, Section 7003 “Cemetery†means either of the following: (a)Any of the following that is used or intended to be used and dedicated for cemetery purposes: (1)A burial park, for earth interments. (2)A mausoleum, for crypt or vault interments. (3)A crematory and columbarium, for cinerary interments. (b)A place where six or more human bodies are buried.
The new mortuary and cemetery opened in 1952.
Notable interments
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- Harry Ackerman (1912â€"1991), television executive producer
- Rodolfo Acosta (1920â€"1974), actor
- Edie Adams (1927â€"2008), actress and singer
- Iris Adrian (1912â€"1994), actress
- Philip Ahn (1905â€"1978), actor
- Harry Akst (1894â€"1963), songwriter
- Robert Aldrich (1918â€"1983), director
- Don Alvarado (1904â€"1967), actor and director
- Irving Allen (1905â€"1987), producer and director
- Steve Allen (1921â€"2000), actor, comedian, writer, and television host (unmarked grave)
- Leon Ames (1902â€"1993), actor
- Morey Amsterdam (1908â€"1996), actor and comedian
- Carl David Anderson (1905â€"1991), scientist
- Ernie Anderson (1923â€"1997), television announcer
- Mignon Anderson (1892â€"1983), actress
- Lois Andrews (1924â€"1968), actress
- Michael Ansara (1922â€"2013), actor
- Dimitra Arliss (1932â€"2012), actress
- Robert Arthur (1909â€"1986), producer
- John Ashley (1934â€"1997), actor
- Gene Autry (1907â€"1998), actor and singer
- Luis Ãvalos (1946â€"2014), actor
- Doe Avedon (1925â€"2011), actress and model
- Patricia Avery (1902â€"1973), actress
- Tex Avery (1908â€"1980), animator
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- Art Babbitt (1907â€"1992), animator
- Lloyd Bacon (1889â€"1955), director
- Parley Baer (1914â€"2002), actor
- David Bailey (1933â€"2004), actor
- Jimmy Bain (1947â€"2016), musician
- Buddy Baker (1918â€"2002), composer
- Bonnie Lee Bakley (1956â€"2001), murdered wife of actor Robert Blake
- John Ball (1911â€"1988), novelist
- Harry Barris (1905â€"1962), singer, songwriter and musician
- Don "Red" Barry (1912â€"1980), actor
- Judith Barsi (1978â€"1988), child actress
- Gordon Bau (1907â€"1975), film and television make-up artist
- Clyde Beatty (1903â€"1965), circus owner and lion tamer
- Noah Beery, Jr. (1913â€"1994), actor, son of actor, Noah Beery, Sr., nephew of actor, Wallace Beery
- Noah Beery, Sr. (1882â€"1946), actor, father of actor, Noah Beery, Jr., older brother of actor, Wallace Beery
- Ralph Bellamy (1904â€"1991), actor
- Richard Benedict (1920â€"1984), actor and director
- Spencer Gordon Bennet (1893â€"1987), director
- Lamont Bentley (1973â€"2005), actor
- Mary Kay Bergman (1961â€"1999), voice-over artist
- Fred "Rerun" Berry (1951â€"2003), actor/street dancer/ordained Baptist minister (unmarked grave)
- Gus Bivona (1915â€"1996), musician
- Willie Bobo (1934â€"1983), musician
- Priscilla Bonner (1899â€"1996), actress
- Tom Bosley (1927â€"2010), actor
- Truman Bradley (1905â€"1974), actor and television announcer
- Delaney Bramlett (1939â€"2008), musician
- Chet Brandenburg (1897â€"1974), actor
- Mary Brian (1906â€"2002), actress
- Pamela Britton (1923â€"1974), actress
- Albert "Cubby" Broccoli (1909â€"1996), producer
- Joe Brooks (1923â€"2007), actor
- Leslie Brooks (1922â€"2011), actress and model
- Wally Brown (1904â€"1961), actor and comedian
- Kathie Browne (1930â€"2003), actress
- Mona Bruns (1899â€"2000), actress
- Edgar Buchanan (1903â€"1979), actor
- Mildred Burke (1915â€"1989), professional wrestler
- Solomon Burke (1940â€"2010), singer
- Bartine Burkett (1898â€"1994), actress
- Everett G. Burkhalter (1897â€"1975), politician
- Smiley Burnette (1911â€"1967), actor
- Jerry Buss (1933â€"2013), majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers
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- Salvador "Tutti" Camarata (1913â€"2005), composer
- Godfrey Cambridge (1933â€"1976), actor and comedian
- Pete Candoli (1923â€"2008), musician
- Stephen J. Cannell (1941â€"2010), producer
- Frankie Carle (1903â€"2001), musician, pianist and bandleader
- Philip Carey (1925â€"2009), actor
- Johnny Carpenter (1914â€"2003), actor, director, and screenwriter
- David Carradine (1936â€"2009), actor
- John Carroll (1906â€"1979), actor and singer
- Virginia Carroll (1913â€"2009), actress
- Nick Ceroli (1939â€"1985), musician, jazz drummer for Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
- Michael Chekhov (1891â€"1955), actor, director, novelist, and theater practitioner
- Warren Christopher (1925â€"2011), former Secretary of State and Deputy Attorney General
- Ethlyne Clair (1904â€"1996), actress
- Bob Clampett (1913â€"1984), animator
- Robert Clarke (1920â€"2005), actor
- William H. Clothier (1903â€"1996), cinematographer
- Bill Cody, Jr. (1925â€"1989), actor
- Nudie Cohn (1902â€"1984), fashion designer
- Buddy Cole (1916â€"1964), musician
- Dennis Cole (1940â€"2009), actor
- Ray Collins (1889â€"1965), actor
- Joyce Compton (1907â€"1997), actress
- Christopher Connelly (1941â€"1988), actor
- William Conrad (1920â€"1994), actor
- Bert Convy (1933â€"1991), actor and television host
- Wilbur Cooper (1892â€"1973), Major League Baseball player
- Rita Corday (1920â€"1992), actress
- Tara Correa-McMullen (1989â€"2005), actress
- Jerome Cowan (1897â€"1972), actor
- Willie Crawford (1946â€"2004), Major League Baseball player
- Scatman Crothers (1910â€"1986), actor and musician
- Gary Crosby (1933â€"1995), actor and singer
- Pauline Curley (1903â€"2000), actress
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- Virginia Dale (1917â€"1994), actress
- Ken Darby (1909â€"1992), composer
- Hal David (1921â€"2012), songwriter
- Beryl Davis (1924â€"2011), singer
- Bette Davis (1908â€"1989), actress
- Brad Davis (1949â€"1991), actor
- Gail Davis (1925â€"1997), actress
- Rufe Davis (1908â€"1974), actor
- Laraine Day (1920â€"2007), actress, wife of Leo Durocher
- Frank de Kova (1910â€"1981), actor
- Gene de Paul (1919â€"1988), composer
- Tamara De Treaux (1959â€"1990), actress
- Frank De Vol (1911â€"1999), composer, actor
- Rod Dedeaux (1914â€"2006), longtime USC Trojans baseball head coach
- Sandra Dee (1942â€"2005), actress
- Reginald Denny (1891â€"1967), actor
- Vernon Dent (1895â€"1963), actor
- André DeToth (1913â€"2002), director
- Ronnie James Dio (1942â€"2010), heavy metal/hard rock singer and songwriter, member of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio
- Roy Oliver Disney (1893â€"1971), businessman, older brother of Walt Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, father of Roy E. Disney
- Edward Dmytryk (1908â€"1999), director
- Jimmie W. Dodd, (1910â€"1964) actor, singer, and songwriter, host of The Mickey Mouse Club, "Mouseketeer"
- Jim Duffy (1937â€"2012), animator
- George Duke (1946â€"2013), musician
- Michael Clarke Duncan (1957â€"2012), actor
- Jerry Dunphy (1921â€"2002), television news anchor
- Leo Durocher (1905â€"1991), Major League Baseball Hall of Famer
- Dan Duryea (1907â€"1968), actor
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- Arthur Edeson (1891â€"1970), cinematographer
- Anthony Eisley (1925â€"2003), actor
- James Ellison (1910â€"1993), actor
- Dan Enright (1917â€"1992), producer
- Josh Ryan Evans (1982â€"2002), actor
- Michael Evans (1920â€"2007), actor
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- Richard Farnsworth (1920â€"2000), actor
- Marty Feldman (1934â€"1982), actor and comedian
- William Ferrari (1901â€"1962), art director
- Jim Ferrier (1915â€"1986), professional golfer
- George Fischbeck (1922â€"2015), meteorologist
- Carrie Fisher (1956â€"2016), actress and writer
- Shug Fisher (1907â€"1984), actor, singer and songwriter
- Robert Florey (1900â€"1979), director
- Tony Fontane (1925â€"1974), singer
- Robert Charles Francis (1930â€"1955), actor
- Melvin Franklin (1942â€"1995), singer and member of The Temptations
- Mona Freeman (1926â€"2014), actress
- Milton Frome (1909â€"1989), actor
- Bobby Fuller (1942â€"1966), singer
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- Reginald Gardiner (1903â€"1980), actor
- Michael Garrison (1922â€"1966), producer
- Frankie Gaye (1941â€"2001), singer, younger brother of Marvin Gaye
- Wally George (1931â€"2003), television host
- Andy Gibb (1958â€"1988), singer
- Hughie Gibb (1916â€"1992), bandleader, father of the Bee Gees and Andy Gibb.
- Paul Gilbert (1918â€"1976), actor
- Peggy Gilbert (1905â€"2007), musician
- Haven Gillespie (1888â€"1975), songwriter
- Roger Gimbel (1925â€"2011), producer
- Joel Goldsmith (1957â€"2012), composer
- Floyd Gottfredson (1905â€"1986), Disney cartoonist
- Alfred J. Goulding (1885â€"1972), director and screenwriter
- Earl Grant (1931â€"1970), musician
- Howard Greenfield (1936â€"1986), songwriter
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- Hard Boiled Haggerty (1925â€"2004), professional wrestler
- Barbara Hale (1922â€"2017), actress
- Monte Hale (1919â€"2009), actor and singer
- Jon Hall (1915â€"1979), actor
- Porter Hall (1888â€"1953), actor
- Thurston Hall (1888â€"1952), actor
- Stuart Hamblen (1908â€"1989), actor, singer, and songwriter
- Thomas F. Hamilton (1894â€"1969), founder of the Hamilton Standard propeller company
- John Hancock (1941-1992), actor
- Jack Hannah (1913â€"1994), animator
- Ben Hardaway (1895â€"1957), animator and voice-over artist
- Ann Harding (1902â€"1981), actress
- Bob Hastings (1925â€"2014), actor
- Marvin Hatley (1905â€"1986), composer
- George "Gabby" Hayes (1885â€"1969), actor
- Jim Healy (1923â€"1994), sports commentator
- Neal Hefti (1922â€"2008), composer
- Horace Heidt (1901â€"1986), bandleader
- Wanda Hendrix (1928â€"1981), actress
- Higgins (1957â€"1975), dog actor (urn is buried with trainer, Frank Inn)
- Maxine Elliott Hicks (1904â€"2000), actress
- James Day Hodgson (1915â€"2012), politician
- John C. Holland (1893â€"1970), Los Angeles City Council member, 1943â€"67
- Red Holloway (1927â€"2012), musician
- Sol HoÊ»opiÊ»i (1902â€"1953), musician
- Jean Speegle Howard (1927â€"2000), actress, wife of Rance Howard, mother of Ron and Clint Howard, grandmother of Bryce Dallas Howard
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- Rex Ingram (1895â€"1969), actor
- Frank Inn (1916â€"2002), animal trainer
- Jill Ireland (1936â€"1990), actress
- Ub Iwerks (1901â€"1971), animator
J
- Dennis James (1917â€"1997), actor and television host
- Al Jarreau (1940â€"2017), singer and musician
- Charles Jarrott (1927â€"2011), director
- Howard Jarvis (1903â€"1986), political activist
- Sybil Jason (1927â€"2011), child actress
- Tony Jay (1933â€"2006), actor and voice-over artist
- Kelly Johnson (1910â€"1990), aviation engineer
- I. Stanford Jolley (1900â€"1978), actor
- Mickey Jones (1941â€"2018), drummer and actor
- Allyn Joslyn (1901â€"1981), actor
K
- Bob Kane (1915â€"1998), comic book artist
- Stacy Keach, Sr. (1914â€"2003), actor
- Joseph Kearns (1907â€"1962), actor
- Buster Keaton (1895â€"1966), actor and comedian
- Adolf Keller (1872-1963) theologian and writer
- Lemmy Kilmister (1945â€"2015), Musician, singer and songwriter.
- Lincoln Kilpatrick (1932â€"2004), actor (unmarked grave)
- Peter King (1914â€"1982), composer
- Rodney King (1965â€"2012)
- James Komack (1924â€"1997), TV producer, screenwriter, director and actor
- Ernie Kovacs (1919â€"1962), actor and comedian
- Helen Barbara Kruger (1913â€"2006), fashion designer
- Otto Kruger (1885â€"1974), actor
- Kay E. Kuter (1925â€"2003), actor
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- Jack LaLanne (1914â€"2011), fitness and nutrition expert
- Dorothy Lamour (1914â€"1996), actress and singer
- Muriel Landers (1921â€"1977), actress
- Fritz Lang (1890â€"1976), director
- June Lang (1917â€"2005), actress
- Grace Lantz (1903â€"1992), voice-over artist, wife of Walter Lantz, voice of Woody Woodpecker
- Walter Lantz (1899â€"1994), animator and founder of Walter Lantz Productions
- Eric Larson (1905â€"1988), animator
- Nicolette Larson (1952â€"1997), singer
- Philip H. Lathrop (1912â€"1995), cinematographer
- Wesley Lau (1921â€"1984), actor
- Charles Laughton (1899â€"1962), actor
- Stan Laurel (1890â€"1965), actor and comedian, one-half of the Laurel and Hardy duo
- William Lava (1911â€"1971), composer
- Arthur Lee (1945â€"2006), singer, songwriter, musician
- Robert Edwin Lee (1918â€"1994), playwright and lyricist
- Lance LeGault (1935â€"2012), actor
- Earl Lestz (1938â€"2017), studio executive
- Stan Levey (1926â€"2005), musician
- George Liberace (1911â€"1983), actor and musician, older brother of Liberace
- Liberace (1919â€"1987), musician
- Diane Linkletter (1948â€"1969), daughter of Art Linkletter
- Glenard P. Lipscomb (1915â€"1970), former US Congressman
- Felix Locher (1882-1969), actor
- Carey Loftin (1914â€"1997), actor and stuntman
- Hicks Lokey (1904â€"1990), animator
- Julie London (1926â€"2000), actress and singer
- Louise Lorraine (1904â€"1981), actress
- John Lounsbery (1911â€"1976), animator
- Otto Ludwig (1903â€"1983), editor
- Art Lund (1915â€"1990), actor and singer
- Jeffrey Lynn (1909â€"1995), actor
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- Kenneth MacDonald (1901â€"1972), actor
- Harriet E. MacGibbon (1905â€"1987), actress
- Chummy MacGregor (1903â€"1973), musician
- Wilbur Mack (1873â€"1964), actor
- Marjorie Main (1890â€"1975), actress
- Albert Hay Malotte (1895â€"1964), composer
- Shelly Manne (1920â€"1984), musician
- Richard Marquand (1937â€"1987), director
- Garry Marshall (1934â€"2016), writer, director, producer, and actor
- Jack Marshall (1921â€"1973), guitarist, composer and conductor, father of film director/producer Frank Marshall
- Lock Martin (1916â€"1959), actor
- Strother Martin (1919â€"1980), actor
- Michelle Triola Marvin (1932â€"2009), actress
- Joseph Mascolo (1929â€"2016), actor
- Junius Matthews (1890â€"1978), actor
- Matty Matlock (1907â€"1978), musician
- Frank Mayo (1889â€"1963), actor
- Larry McCormick (1933â€"2004), television news anchor
- Pat McCormick (1927â€"2005), comedian
- Caroline McWilliams (1945â€"2010), actress
- Jayne Meadows (1919â€"2015), actress
- Ralph Meeker (1920â€"1988), actor
- Martin Melcher (1915â€"1968), producer
- Sam Melville (1936â€"1989), actor
- Rafael Méndez (1906â€"1981), musician
- Chuck Menville (1940â€"1992), TV animator and writer, father of voice actor and musician, Scott Menville
- Donald Mills (1915â€"1999), singer and member of The Mills Brothers
- Harry Mills (1913â€"1982), singer and member of The Mills Brothers
- Victor Milner (1893â€"1972), cinematographer
- Cyril J. Mockridge (1896â€"1979), composer
- Paul Monette (1945â€"1995), author and poet
- Alvy Moore (1921â€"1997), actor
- Vicki Morgan (1952â€"1983), model, socialite, and murder victim
- Alphonse Mouzon (1948â€"2016), drummer
- Brittany Murphy (1977â€"2009), actress, singer, voice artist
- Timothy Patrick Murphy (1959â€"1988), actor
- Simon Monjack (1970â€"2010), producer, screenwriter, husband of actress Brittany Murphy
- Burt Mustin (1884â€"1977), actor
- John Myhers (1921â€"1992), actor
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- Harriet Nelson (1909â€"1994), actress and singer
- Ozzie Nelson (1906â€"1975), actor and musician
- Ricky Nelson (1940â€"1985), actor and singer
- Red Nichols (1905â€"1965), musician
- Jack Nimitz (1930â€"2009), musician
- Heather North (1945â€"2017), actress
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- Orry-Kelly (1897â€"1964), costume designer for Warner Bros.
- Donald O'Connor (1925â€"2003), actor, singer and dancer
- Ron O'Neal (1937â€"2004), actor
- William T. Orr (1917â€"2002), TV producer, founder and head of Warner Bros. Television
- Frank Orth (1880â€"1962), actor
- Bud Osborne (1884â€"1964), actor
- David Oliver (1962â€"1992), film and television actor. Main work in TV series A Year in the Life
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- Nestor Paiva (1905â€"1966), actor
- Joy Page (1924â€"2008), actress
- Maria Palmer (1917â€"1981), actress
- Cecilia Parker (1914â€"1993), actress
- Jean Parker (1915â€"2005), actress
- Hank Patterson (1888â€"1975), actor
- Bill Paxton (1955â€"2017), actor
- Kenneth Peach (1903â€"1988), cinematographer
- Bill Peet (1915â€"2002), animator
- Jack Pepper (1902â€"1979), actor
- Brock Peters (1927â€"2005), actor
- Freddie Perren (1943â€"2004), musician
- Jack Perrin (1896â€"1967), actor
- George O. Petrie (1912â€"1997), actor
- Esther Phillips (1935â€"1984), singer
- Rich Piana (1971â€"2017), bodybuilder
- Charles Pierce (1926â€"1999), actor and female impersonator
- Daphne Pollard (1891â€"1978), actress
- Snub Pollard (1889â€"1962), actor and comedian
- Tony Pope (1947â€"2004), voice-over artist
- Jeff Porcaro (1954â€"1992), musician, drummer for Toto
- Mike Porcaro (1955â€"2015), bassist for Toto, younger brother of Jeff Porcaro
- Jean Porter (1922â€"2018), actress
- John Clinton Porter (1871â€"1959), former mayor of Los Angeles
- Don Post (1902â€"1979), make-up artist
- Freddie Prinze (1954â€"1977), actor and comedian
- Alan Purwin (1961â€"2015), helicopter pilot
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- George Raft (1901â€"1980), actor
- Amanda Randolph (1896â€"1967), actress
- Lillian Randolph (1898â€"1980), actress
- Lou Rawls (1933â€"2006), singer
- Hugh Reilly (1915â€"1998), actor
- Bert Remsen (1925â€"1999), actor
- Ray Rennahan (1896â€"1980), cinematographer
- Dorothy Revier (1904â€"1993), actress
- Reynaldo Rey (1940â€"2015), actor, comedian, TV personality
- Debbie Reynolds (1932â€"2016), actress and singer
- Bill Richmond (1921â€"2016), television writer
- Preston Ritter (1949â€"2015), musician
- John Ritter (1948â€"2003), actor
- Jason Robards Sr. (1892â€"1963), actor, father of actor, Jason Robards
- Gale Robbins (1921â€"1980), actress and singer
- Dar Robinson (1947â€"1986), film stuntman
- Jay Robinson (1930â€"2013), actor
- Kasey Rogers (1925â€"2006), actress
- Frank Ronzio (1920â€"1989), actor
- John Roseboro (1933â€"2002), MLB player
- Joe E. Ross (1914â€"1982), actor and comedian
- Ruth Royce (1893â€"1971), actress
- Miklós Rózsa (1907â€"1995), composer
- Don Rudolph (1931â€"1968), MLB player
- Al Ruscio (1924â€"2013), musician
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- Sabu (1924â€"1963), actor
- Boris Sagal (1923â€"1981), TV & film director, father of actresses, Katey, Jean and Liz Sagal
- Jack Sahakian (1931â€"1995), hairdresser and actor
- Bill Salkeld (1917â€"1967), MLB player
- Isabel Sanford (1917â€"2004), actress
- George Savalas (1924â€"1985), actor
- Telly Savalas (1922â€"1994), actor
- Richard Schaal (1928â€"2014), actor
- Johnny Sekka (1934â€"2006), actor
- Reta Shaw (1912â€"1982), actress
- Leon Shamroy (1901â€"1974), cinematographer
- Larry Shay (1897â€"1988), songwriter
- Robert Shayne (1900â€"1992), actor
- Roberta Sherwood (1913â€"1999), singer (unmarked grave)
- Mickey Simpson (1913â€"1985), actor
- Phillips Smalley (1865â€"1939), actor and director
- Keely Smith (1928â€"2017), singer
- Roger Smith (1932â€"2017), actor
- Jack Soo (1917â€"1979), actor
- Olan Soule (1909â€"1994), actor
- Ruth St. Denis (1879â€"1978), dancer and choreographer
- Raymond St. Jacques (1930â€"1990), actor
- Tim Spencer (1908â€"1974), actor and singer
- Jack Starrett (1936â€"1989), actor and director
- Bob Steele (1907â€"1988), actor
- Rod Steiger (1925â€"2002), actor
- George Stevens (1904â€"1975), director
- McLean Stevenson (1927â€"1996), actor
- Jay Stewart (1918â€"1989), television and radio announcer
- Glenn Strange (1899â€"1973), actor
- Fred Stone (1873â€"1959), actor
- Victor Sutherland (1889â€"1968), actor
- H.N. Swanson (1899â€"1961), Hollywood literary agent
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- William Talman (1915â€"1968), actor
- Vic Tayback (1930â€"1990), actor
- Meshach Taylor (1947â€"2014), actor
- Rod Taylor (1930â€"2015), actor
- Zola Taylor (1938â€"2007), singer
- Jack Teagarden (1905â€"1964), musician
- Frankie Thomas (1921â€"2006), actor
- Martha Tilton (1915â€"2006), singer
- Wayne Tippit (1932â€"2009), actor
- George Tomasini (1909â€"1964), editor
- Pinky Tomlin (1907â€"1987), actor and musician
- Leo Tover (1902â€"1964), cinematographer
- Bobby Troup (1918â€"1999), actor and musician
- Charles Trowbridge (1882â€"1967), actor
- Tamara De Treaux (1959â€"1990), actress
- Forrest Tucker (1919â€"1986), actor
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- Loyal Underwood (1893â€"1966), actor (unmarked grave)
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- Lee Van Cleef (1925â€"1989), actor
- Dick Van Patten (1928â€"2015), actor
- Wally Vernon (1905â€"1970), actor
- Katherine Victor (1923â€"2004), actress
- Al Viola (1919â€"2007), musician
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- Jack Wagner (1925â€"1995), announcer at Disneyland, "The Voice of Disneyland"
- Jimmy Wakely (1914â€"1982), actor and singer
- Janet Waldo (1920â€"2016), voice actress
- Paul Walker (1973â€"2013), actor
- Eddy Waller (1889â€"1977), actor
- Larry Walters (1949â€"1993), truck driver known as "Lawnchair Larry" or "The Lawn Chair Pilot who flew a lawn chair with weather balloons"
- Kent Warner (1943â€"1984), costume designer
- Ruth Waterbury (1896â€"1982), film critic
- Paul Weatherwax (1900â€"1960), editor
- Jack Webb (1920â€"1982), actor, producer, and director
- Reinhold Weege (1949â€"2012), television writer
- Frank Wells (1932â€"1994), Disney president
- Billy West (1892â€"1975), actor and comedian
- Norman Whitfield (1940â€"2008), songwriter and composer
- Claire Whitney (1890â€"1969), actress
- Richard Whorf (1906â€"1966), actor, director, and producer
- Crane Wilbur (1886â€"1973), actor and director
- Jess Willard (1881â€"1968), world heavyweight boxing champion
- Bill Williams (1915â€"1992), actor (unmarked grave)
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (1899â€"1962), actor
- Rhys Williams (1897â€"1969), actor
- Roy Williams (1907â€"1976), animator, The Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer
- Vesta Williams (1957â€"2011), singer
- Dick Wilson (1916â€"2007), actor
- Marie Wilson (1916â€"1972), actress and comedian, wife of Robert Fallon
- Paul Winfield (1941â€"2004), actor
- Charles Winninger (1884â€"1969), stage and film actor
- David L. Wolper (1928â€"2010), producer
- Tyrus Wong (1910â€"2016), animator
- John Wooden (1910â€"2010), UCLA Bruins men's basketball coach
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- Ralph Yearsley (1896â€"1928), actor
- Snooky Young (1919â€"2011), musician
- Vasyl Yemetz (1891â€"1982), bandurist, composer, founder of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus
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- Paul Zastupnevich (1921â€"1997), costume designer
- George Zucco (1886â€"1960), actor
See also
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
- List of United States cemeteries
- San Fernando Valley
- History of the San Fernando Valley
- Rancho Providencia â€" First Movie Town 1912
- Nestor Studios â€" Valley ranch
- Providencia Ranch â€" Oak Crest â€" Universal/Bison 101 Movies
- Universal City â€" Two valley ranch locations
References
External links
- Official website
- Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills Grave marker photos
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) at Find a Grave
