Los Angeles City College
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Los Angeles City College is a community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. The college is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. It was founded in 1929, using the campus formerly occupied by the University of California, Los Angeles before UCLA moved to its present location in Westwood. Los Angeles City College is part of the Los Angeles Community College District.
The college is known as LACC or simply as "City."
Notable alumni
- Charles Bukowski, poet and author
- Eric Dolphy, jazz musician
- James Coburn, actor
- Angela Dorian, actress and model
- Clint Eastwood, actor, producer and director
- Morgan Freeman, actor
- Frank Gehry, architect
- Deidre Hall, actress
- Albert Hughes of the Hughes Brothers, director
- Ron Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa
- Margaret Kerry, actress
- Lawrence Klein, economist
- Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, music producers
- Whitman Mayo, actor
- Shelley Morrison, actress
- Odetta, folk singer
- Bernard C. Parks, former Los Angeles police chief and current politician
- Gene Roddenberry, creator of "Star Trek"
- Leonard Slatkin, conductor
- Robert Vaughn, actor
- Diane E. Watson, member of Congress
- Cindy Williams, actress and producer
- Stuart Whitman, actor
- Jo Anne Worley, actress
- La Monte Young, composer
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