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.
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(Note this is a partial list.)
Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.
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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
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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
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Arthur Lake , actor, Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie 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
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Christopher Quinn, three year old son of actor Anthony Quinn , who died in a drowning accident
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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
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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 The Little Rascals
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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 Intermezzo U
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