Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
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The Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California.
It is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names, although it was not always sought-after. Indeed, when it was announced Marilyn Monroe was to be buried there in 1962, observers were astonished. Joe DiMaggio, responsible for the funeral arrangements, chose Westwood for its obscurity. However Marilyn Monroe's burial turned it into one of the prime cemeteries in Los Angeles.
That changed over the years, however, and now Westwood Village has become on par with Forest Lawn as the ultimate Hollywood hereafter "hot spot".
List
(Note this is a partial list.)
Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.
A
- Milton Ager, musician, composer
- Gitta Alpar, actress, opera singer
- Eve Arden, actress, played Our Miss Brooks
- Hy Averback, director
- Lew Ayres, actor
B
- Jim Backus, actor, Mr. Howell on TV's Gilligan's Island
- Richard Basehart, actor, Admiral Nelson on TV's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- Whit Bissell, actor
- Robert Bloch, writer
- Bobbi Brat, lead singer of Gothic rock band Red Scare
- Fanny Brice, comedic actor, Vaudeville performer
- Les Brown, bandleader
C
- Sebastian Cabot, actor, played Mr. French on TV's Family Affair
- Sammy Cahn, songwriter
- Truman Capote, actor, author, wrote In Cold Blood
- John Cassavetes, actor, screenwriter, director, producer
- Ray Conniff, musician
- Richard Conte, actor
- Bob Crane, actor, played Hogan on TV's Hogan's Heroes, murder victim
- Norma Crane, actress, Golde in "Fiddler on the Roof"
D
- Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, actor
- Marvin Davis, businessman
- Don DeFore, actor
- Vigen Derderian, Armenian-Iranian singer
- Edmund M. DiGiulio, important pioneer film technician
- Philip Dorn, actor
- Eric Douglas, actor; son of Kirk Douglas
- Dominique Dunne, actress Poltergeist; daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, sister of actor-director Griffin Dunne
- Ariel Durant historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature
- Will Durant historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature
E
F
- Jay C. Flippen, actor
- Coleman Francis, film director
G
- Eva Gabor, actress, Lisa Douglas on TV
- Michael V. Gazzo, actor
- Christopher George, actor
- Thomas Gomez, actor
- Robert Gottschalk, camera technician
- Jane Greer, actress
H
- Carrie Hamilton, actress singer
- Armand Hammer, oil tycoon and art collector
- Jonathan Harris, actor
- Harold Hecht, film producer
- Hugh Hefner, "In waiting" - He purchased the crypt beside the one of Marilyn Monroe, his first "Playboy" centerfold.
- James Wong Howe, cinematographer
- Ronald Hughes, lawyer
- Jim Hutton, actor
I
- Steve Ihnat, actor
J
- Donald G. Jackson, filmmaker
- Sam Jaffe, actor
- Nunnally Johnson, filmmaker
- Louis Henry Jourdan, son of French actor Louis Jourdan, died from a drug overdose
- Janis Joplin, singer. She was cremated here and her ashes were later scattered in the Pacific Ocean
K
- Louis Kaufman, violinist
- Brian Keith, actor. Buried with his daughter, Daisy. Both committed suicide.
- Cecil Kellaway, actor
- Nancy Kelly, actress
- Stan Kenton, bandleader
- Victor Kilian, actor
- Don Knotts, actor, comedian
- Miliza Korjus, opera singer
L
- Karen Lamm, model, actress
- Burt Lancaster, actor
- Sidney Lanfield, film and television director
- Peter Lawford, actor, was cremated and ashes originally buried at Westwood. His ashes were later removed and scattered in the Pacific.
- Irving Paul Lazar, agent
- Anna Lee, actress
- Peggy Lee, singer
- Ernest Lehman, screenwriter
- Jack Lemmon, actor
- Oscar Levant, actor, pianist
- Jay Livingston, composer
M
- Pamela Mason, actress
- Dean Martin, actor, singer
- Edith Massey, actress
- Walter Matthau, actor
- Lewis Milestone, film director
- Marvin E. Miller, actor
- Marilyn Monroe, actress
- Constance Moore, singer, actress
N
- Nader Naderpour, poet
- Robert Newton, actor
- Lloyd Nolan, actor
O
- Carroll O'Connor, actor, played Archie Bunker on TV's All In The Family
- Hugh O'Connor, actor
- Heather O'Rourke, actress, the little girl from the Poltergeist film series.
- Roy Orbison, singer, Rock and Roll pioneer. Grave unmarked
P
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
Q
R
- Donna Reed, actress
- Renie Riano, actress
- Buddy Rich, drummer, bandleader
- Minnie Riperton, singer
- Ava Archer Syme-Reeves, Keanu Reeves's daughter
- Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955
- Ruth Rose, screenwriter
- Herbert Ross, film director
S
- William Sackheim, screenwriter, producer
- Franklin Schaffner, film director
- G. David Schine, film producer
- Ernest B. Schoedsack, film director
- George C. Scott, actor, won the Oscar for the title role in Patton Grave unmarked
- Vivienne Segal, singer, actress
- Anne Seymour, actress
- Robert Stack, actor, The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries
- Ray Stark, film producer
- Josef von Sternberg, film director
- Dorothy Stratten, actress, Playboy Playmate, (murdered)
- Danny Sugerman, writer, rock band manager
- Jennifer Syme, actress, (buried with her daughter by Keanu Reeves)
T
- Don Taylor, actor
- Kent Taylor, actor
- William C. Thomas, film producer
- Ernst Toch, composer
- Mel Tormé, singer
- Helen Traubel, opera soprano
- Frank Tuttle, screenwriter, producer
U
V
- John Vivyan, actor
W
- June Walker, actress
- Ray Walston, actor, he was cremated here and the ashes are with his daughter
- Harry Warren, songwriter
- Chrissie White, silent film actress
- Cornel Wilde, actor
- Billy Wilder, movie director
- Carl Wilson, singer - The Beach Boys
- Estelle Winwood, actress
- Natalie Wood, actress
X
Y
Z
- Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox studios
- Frank Zappa, composer, musicain, satirist, lead singer of Mothers Of Invention.
See also
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