San Fernando Mission Cemetery

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The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese since 1800, and is located at 11160 Stranwood Avenue in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, California, near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España.

Notable burials

Edward Arnold (1890-1956), actor.
Ed Begley, Sr. (1901-1970), Academy Award-winning actor
William Bendix (1906-1964), actor - on TV’s Life of Riley
Walter Brennan (1894-1974), actor, 3 Academy Awards, The Real McCoys
Evelyn Brent (1899-1975), actress
Jerry Colonna, comedian
Betty Compson (1897-1974), pioneer film actress
Chuck Connors (1921-1992), pro baseball player & actor: The Rifleman
Joseph Crehan (1883-1966), actor
Lee De Forest (1873-1961), physicist & electrical engineer, inventor of the triode
Allan Dwan (1885-1981), director, producer, screenwriter
Frank Faylen, actor
Ted Fio Rito (1900-1971), Big Band leader, composer
Harry Fox (1882-1959), stage and film star, "Fox-Trot" dance inventor
William Frawley (1887-1966), actor: I Love Lucy
George Gobel (1919-1991), comedian
Bob Hope (1903-2003), globetrotting entertainer, comedian, & TV star
Alice Joyce (1890-1955), early film star
June Marlowe (1903-1984), actress, Miss Crabtree in the Little Rascals
Clarence Nash (1904-1985), the voice of Donald Duck
Trinidad Silva (1950-1988), TV and film actor
Penny Singleton (1908-2003), actress, first woman president of an AFL-CIO union
Ritchie Valens (1941-1959), early Rock and Roll singer: La Bamba, died in a plane crash
Bruce Yarnell (1935-1973), actor, singer