Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
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The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 E. Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, California. It is also called "New Calvary Cemetery" because the original 1896 cemetery on North Broadway was moved to make way for Cathedral High School.
Notable burials
- Kathryn Adams (1893-1959), actress
- King Baggot (1879-1948), actor, screenwriter/director
- Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954), actor (monument - burial place is in Philadelphia)
- Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), actress
- Francelia Billington (1895-1934), actress
- Richard Boleslawski (1889-1937), film director
- Helene Costello (1906-1957), actress
- Lou Costello (1906-1959), actor, part of comedy team, "Abbott & Costello"
- Dolores Costello-Barrymore (1903-1979), actress
- Maurice Costello (1877-1950) actor
- Henry Dalton, Azusa founder and creator of honey industry
- Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935), oil tycoon
- Irene Dunne (1898-1990), actress
- Henry Gage (1852-1924), governor of California
- Cedric Gibbons (1893-1960), prolific film art director and production designer
- John Hodiak (1914-1955), actor
- Emilio Kosterlitzky (1853-1928), Russian-born linguist and soldier of fortune
- Leno La Bianca (1925-1969), murdered by the Charles Manson family
- Matt Moore (1888-1960), actor
- Owen Moore (1886-1939), actor
- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1885-1941), musician/composer of jazz and blues
- J. Carrol Naish (1897-1973), actor
- Pola Negri (1894-1987), actress
- Mabel Normand (1892-1930), actress
- Ramon Novarro (1899-1968), actor
- Mary Philbin (1903-1993), actress
- Hal Roach, Jr. (1918-1972), film producer
- Harry F. Sinclair (1876-1956), oil industrialist
See also
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