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Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue.[1]
Location within Western Los Angeles | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1880s as unnamed cemetery 1905 as Sunset Cemetery 1926 name officially changed to Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Location | 1218 Glendon Avenue Westwood, Los Angeles 90024 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 34°03′30″N 118°26′26″W / 34.05833°N 118.44056°WCoordinates: 34°03′30″N 118°26′26″W / 34.05833°N 118.44056°W |
| Type | Public |
| Owned by | Service Corporation International |
| Website | pbwvmortuary |
| Find a Grave | Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary |
| Designated | May 16, 2003 |
| Reference no. | 731 |
The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926, the name was officially changed to Westwood Memorial Park and was later changed again to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary.[1]
Although it is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names, it also contains the graves of many uncelebrated people. For example, when Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Joe DiMaggio, responsible for Monroe's arrangements, chose Westwood not because of its celebrities but because it was the resting place of her mother's friend, Grace Goddard, and Goddard's aunt, Ana Lower, both of whom had cared for Monroe as a child.[2]
Notable interments
A
- Kip Addotta (1944–2019), comedian
- Milton Ager (1893–1979), musician, composer
- Charles Aidman (1925–1993), actor
- Eddie Albert (1906–2005), actor[3]
- Margo Albert (1917–1985), actress, wife of Eddie Albert[4]
- Shana Alexander (1925–2005), journalist, columnist and television commentator
- Claud Allister (1888–1970), actor
- Gitta Alpár (1903–1991), actress, opera singer
- Richard Anderson (1926–2017), actor, co-star of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman
- Patty Andrews (1918–2013), singer
- Tige Andrews (1920–2007), actor
- Ken Annakin (1914–2009), director
- Eve Arden (1908–1990), actress, comedian
- Jack Arnold (1916–1992), director
- Robert Armstrong (1890–1973), actor
- James Aubrey (1918–1994), producer
- Hy Averback (1920–1997), director
- Lew Ayres (1908–1996), actor[3]
B
Headstone of Ray Bradbury, May 2012, prior to his death
- Henny Backus (1911–2004), author, wife of Jim Backus
- Jim Backus (1913–1989), actor[3]
- Richard Baer (1928–2008), screenwriter
- Dave Barbour (1912–1965), musician
- Edgar Barrier (1907–1964), actor
- Patricia Barry (1921–2016), actor
- Eileen Barton (1924–2006), singer
- Richard Basehart (1914–1984), actor[3]
- Greg Bautzer (1911–1987), attorney
- Lee Phillip Bell (1928–2020), television host and producer
- William J. Bell (1927–2005), producer
- Isabel Bigley (1926–2006), actress
- Whit Bissell (1909–1996), actor
- Hilary Blake (1950–2007), musician
- Billy Bletcher (1894–1979), actor, voice artist
- Robert Bloch (1917–1994), writer
- Lloyd Bochner (1924–2005), actor
- Benedict Bogeaus (1904–1968), producer
- John Boles (1895–1969), actor
- Dorris Bowdon (1914–2005), actress
- Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), author; with his wife Marguerite McClure Bradbury
- Fanny Brice (1891–1951), actress, comedian, singer (formerly buried in Home of Peace Cemetery)
- William Brice (1921–2008), artist, son of Fanny Brice
- Les Brown (1912–2001), musician
- Vanessa Brown (1928–1999), actress
- Clarence Bull (1896–1979), photographer
- Anne Buydens (1919–2021), philanthropist, film producer, wife of Kirk Douglas.
C
- Sebastian Cabot (1918–1977), actor[5]
- Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), songwriter
- Truman Capote (1924–1984), author[6][7]
- Edward Carrere (1906–1984), director
- Harry Carey, Jr. (1921–2012), actor
- Mary Carlisle (1914–2018), actress
- John Cassavetes (1929–1989), actor, screenwriter, director, producer
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), composer
- James Coburn (1928–2002), actor
- Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist, screenwriter and producer
- Michel Colombier (1939–2004), musician and composer
- Ray Conniff (1916–2002), musician
- Richard Conte (1910–1975), actor
- Tim Conway (1933–2019), actor and comedian
- Lawrence Cook (1930–2003), actor
- Ian Copeland (1949–2006), music promoter
- Alexander Courage (1919–2008), composer
- Bob Crane (1928–1978), actor[7]
- Norma Crane (1928–1973), actress
D
Rodney Dangerfield's humorous tombstone at Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004), comedian, actor[7]
- Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), actor
- Danny Dark (1938–2004), announcer
- Steve Darrell (1904–1970), actor
- Marvin Davis (1925–2004), oil tycoon and businessman
- Jason Davis (1984–2020), actor
- Richard Dawson (1932–2012), actor and television host
- Don DeFore (1913–1993), actor
- Laura Devon (1931–2007), actress
- Philip Dorn (1901–1975), actor
- Eric Douglas (1958–2004), actor
- Kirk Douglas (1916–2020), actor
- Dominique Dunne (1959–1982), actress, daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, sister of actor-director Griffin Dunne, murder victim
- Ariel Durant (1898–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature, co-wrote The Story of Civilization, wife of Will Durant
- Will Durant (1885–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature, co-wrote The Story of Civilization, husband of Ariel Durant
E
- Nora Eddington (1924–2001), actress, 2nd wife of Errol Flynn, 3rd wife of Dick Haymes[8]
- Roger Edens (1905–1970), vocal arranger, songwriter and producer
- Jack Elliott (1927–2001), songwriter
- Geoff Emerick (1945–2018), sound engineer
- Harry Essex (1910–1997), writer
- Dennis Etchison (1943–2019), writer
- Ray Evans (1915–2007), songwriter
F
- Peter Falk (1927–2011), actor
- Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009), actress
- Freddie Fields (1923–2007), talent agent
- Jay C. Flippen (1899–1971), actor
- June Foray (1917–2017), voice actress
- Michael Fox (1921–1996), actor
- Coleman Francis (1919–1973), film director
- Stan Freberg (1926–2015), voice actor
- Georgia Frontiere (1927–2008), football owner
- Faiza Rauf (1923–1994) Egyptian Princess
G
- Eva Gabor (1919–1995), actress[7]
- June Gale (1911–1996), actress, wife of Oscar Levant[9]
- Michael V. Gazzo (1923–1995), actor
- Christopher George (1931–1983), actor
- Leonard Gershe (1922–2002), composer
- Master Henry Gibson (1942–2002), musician
- Paul Gleason (1939–2006), character actor
- Thomas Gomez (1905–1971), actor
- Don Gordon (1926–2017), actor
- Robert Gottschalk (1918–1982), camera technician, co-founder of Panavision
- Walter Grauman (1922–2015), director
- Howard Greer (1896–1974), costume and fashion designer
- Jane Greer (1924–2001), actress[10]
- Merv Griffin (1925–2007), producer, television host, and singer[11]
H
The Armand Hammer Family Tomb in Westwood Memorial Park
Hayedeh's grave
- Loretta King Hadler (1917–2007), actress
- Hayedeh (1942–1990), Persian language pop and classic singer from Tehran, older sister of Mahasti
- Carrie Hamilton (1963–2002), actress, singer, daughter of Carol Burnett
- Armand Hammer (1898–1990), oil tycoon and art collector, former president of Occidental Petroleum
- Bong Soo Han (1933–2007), martial artist
- Jonathan Harris (1914–2002), actor
- Harold Hecht (1907–1985), film producer
- Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), Playboy magazine founder and publisher and businessman[12]
- Percy Helton (1894–1971), actor
- Florence Henderson (1934–2016), actress, singer and television host
- Francesca Hilton (1947–2015), actress, daughter of Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Connie Hines (1931–2009), actress
- Jonathan Hole (1904–1998), actor, buried with wife Betty Hanna
- Ben Howard (1904–1970), aircraft designer and race pilot
- James Wong Howe (1899–1976), cinematographer[13]
- Rosanna Huffman (1938–2016), actress
- Mark R. Hughes (1956–2000), founder of Herbalife
- Ronald Hughes (1935–1970), lawyer
- Ross Hunter (1920–1996), producer, director, and actor
- Jim Hutton (1934–1979), actor
I
- Steve Ihnat (1934–1972), actor
J
- Donald G. Jackson (1943–2003), filmmaker
- Kevin Jarre (1954–2011), screenwriter
- Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977), screenwriter and director
- Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), actor
- Brenda Joyce (1917–2009), actress
K
- Phil Karlson (1908–1985), director
- Louis Kaufman (1905–1994), violinist
- Beatrice Kay (1907–1986), actress and singer
- Nora Kaye (1920–1987), ballerina
- Brian Keith (1921–1997), actor[14]
- Cecil Kellaway (1893–1973), actor
- Nancy Kelly (1921–1995), actress
- Stan Kenton (1911–1979), musician
- Victor Kilian (1891–1979), actor, murdered
- James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger (1895–1962), aviation executive
- Louis King (1898–1962), director
- Jack Klugman (1922–2012), actor
- Don Knotts (1924–2006), actor and comedian
- Miliza Korjus (1909–1980), opera singer
- Phyllis Kennedy (1914–1998), actress
L
- Perry Lafferty (1917–2005), director
- Bill Lancaster (1947–1997), actor and screenwriter
- Burt Lancaster (1913–1994), actor[15]
- Sidney Lanfield (1898–1972), director
- Paul Laszlo (1900–1993), architect and furniture designer
- Ed Lauter (1938–2013), actor
- Marc Lawrence (1910–2005), actor
- Irving Paul Lazar (1907–1993), agent
- Joanna Lee (1931–2003), actress
- Peggy Lee (1920–2002), singer, songwriter, actress
- Ernest Lehman (1915–2005), screenwriter
- Janet Leigh (1927–2004), actress
- Jack Lemmon (1925–2001), actor[16]
- Queenie Leonard (1905–2002), actress
- Bruce Lester (1912–2008), actor
- Oscar Levant (1906–1972), actor, pianist
- Richard Levinson (1934–1987), writer
- Harry Lewis (1920–2013), actor, restaurateur
- Marilyn Lewis (1929–2017) fashion designer. producer
- Alan W. Livingston (1917–2009), Writer/Producer
- Jay Livingston (1915–2001), songwriter
- Sondra Locke (1944–2018), actress
- Louis Loeffler (1897–1972), editor
- Robert Loggia (1930–2015), actor, director
M
Dean Martin's crypt.
Marilyn Monroe's crypt.
- Alexander Mackendrick (1912–1993), director
- Mahasti (1946–2007), Persian language pop singer from Tehran, younger sister of Hayedeh
- Karl Malden (1912–2009), actor
- Janet Margolin (1943–1993), actress, married to Ted Wass[16]
- Dean Martin (1917–1995), actor and singer[7]
- Andrew Marton (1904–1992), actor
- Samuel Marx (1902–1992), producer
- Pamela Mason (1916–1996), actress, wife of James Mason and Roy Kellino
- Portland Mason (1948–2004), actress, daughter of James Mason and Pamela Mason
- Shirley Mason (1900–1979), actress[17]
- Osa Massen (1914–2006), actress
- Edith Massey (1918–1984), actress
- Carol Matthau (1925–2003), actress, wife of Walter Matthau and William Saroyan
- Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor
- Ruth McDevitt (1895–1976), actress
- Rod McKuen (1933–2015), poet and composer
- Peter McWilliams (1949–2000), author
- Allan Melvin (1923–2008), actor, voice actor
- Lewis Milestone (1895–1980), director
- Marvin E. Miller (1913–1985), actor
- Shirley Mitchell (1919–2013), actress, wife of Jay Livingston
- Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), actress
- Constance Moore (1920–2005), singer and actress
- Dolores Moran (1924–1982), actress
- Jeff Morris (1934–2004), actor
N
- Nader Naderpour (1929–2000), Iranian poet
- David Nelson (1936–2011), actor, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, older brother of Ricky Nelson
- William Newell (1894–1967), actor
- Lloyd Nolan (1902–1985), actor
O
Inscription at Heather O'Rourke's crypt.
Heather O'Rourke's crypt
- Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001), actor
- Heather O'Rourke (1975–1988), actress[6]
- Barbara Orbison (1950–2011), wife of Roy Orbison
- Roy Orbison (1936–1988), singer; grave unmarked[7]
P
- Bettie Page (1923–2008), model
- Dorothy Patrick (1921–1987), actress
- Frank Pierson (1925–2012), screenwriter and director
- Waite Phillips (1883–1964), oil tycoon, philanthropist
- Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976), cellist
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky (1911–2012), chess player
- James Prideaux (1927–2015), playwright
R
- Rafiee Aziz (1922-2007) pioneer film industry in Iran (Producer, Director)
- Ford Rainey (1908–2005), actor
- Donna Reed (1921–1986), actress[18]
- Jimmie Reese (1901–1994), baseball player and coach
- Renie Riano (1899–1971), actress
- Buddy Rich (1917–1987), drummer, bandleader
- Minnie Riperton (1947–1979), singer
- Ben Roberts (1916–1984), screenwriter; co-creator of Charlie's Angels
- Doris Roberts (1925–2016), actress, philanthropist and author
- Wayne Rogers (1933–2015), actor
- Hillevi Rombin (1933–1996), Miss Universe 1955
- Ruth Rose (1896–1978), screenwriter
- Herbert Ross (1927–2001), film director
S
- Franklin Schaffner (1920–1989), film director
- G. David Schine (1927–1996), film producer
- Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893–1979), film director
- George C. Scott (1927–1999), actor; grave unmarked
- Vivienne Segal (1897–1992), singer, actress
- Anne Seymour (1909–1988), actress
- Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007), author
- Dorothy Shay (1921–1978), actress, singer
- Sam Simon (1955–2015), writer, producer and director
- Lu Ann Simms (1932–2003), singer
- Sara Sothern (1895–1994), mother of Elizabeth Taylor
- Robert Stack (1919–2003), actor
- Sage Stallone (1976–2012), actor, son of Sylvester Stallone
- Frances Brice Arnstein Stark (1919–1992) daughter of Fannie Brice, wife of Ray Stark
- Ray Stark (1915–2004), film producer
- Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), film director
- Donald E. Stewart (1930–1999), screenwriter
- Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980), actress, Playboy Playmate
- Danny Sugerman (1954–2005), writer, rock band manager
- Jennifer Syme (1972–2001), actress
T
- Don Taylor (1920–1998), actor and director
- Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968), art dealer, father of Elizabeth Taylor[19]
- Kent Taylor (1907–1987), actor[19]
- Irene Tedrow (1907–1995), actress
- William C. Thomas (1903–1984), film producer
- Marshall Thompson (1925–1992), actor
- Dan Tobin (1910-1982), actor
- Ernst Toch (1887–1964), composer
- Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), author
- Mel Tormé (1925–1999), singer, actor[6][7]
- Helen Traubel (1899–1972), opera soprano
- Les Tremayne (1913–2003), actor
- Frank Tuttle (1892–1963), screenwriter, producer
V
- Sigrid Valdis (1935–2007), actress, widow of Bob Crane
- Clyde Van Dusen (1886–1951), horse trainer, won 1929 Kentucky Derby
- Romeo Vasquez (1939–2017), actor
- John Vivyan (1915–1983), actor
W
- June Walker (1900–1966), actress
- Pat Walshe (1900–1991), actor
- Larry Ward (1925–1985), actor and screenwriter
- Harry Warren (1893–1981), songwriter
- Joe Weider (1919–2013). bodybuilder
- Winifred Westover (1899–1978), actress
- Chrissie White (1895–1989), silent film actress
- Michael White (1936–2016), producer
- Sean Whitesell (1963–2015), actor
- Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), singer
- Herbert Wiere (1908–1999), performer
- Cornel Wilde (1915–1989), actor
- Billy Wilder (1906–2002), filmmaker
- Carl Wilson (1946–1998), singer and member of The Beach Boys[7]
- Estelle Winwood (1883–1984), actress
- Albert Wohlstetter (1913–1997), nuclear strategist
- Roberta Wohlstetter (1912–2007), historian of military intelligence
- Natalie Wood (1938–1981), actress[7]
Y
- Edward Yang (1947–2007), filmmaker
Z
Unmarked grave of Frank Zappa, cemetery view looking southeast
- Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979), head of 20th Century Fox studios, father of Richard D. Zanuck
- Virginia Zanuck (1908–1982), actress, wife of Darryl F. Zanuck, mother of Richard D. Zanuck
- Frank Zappa (1940–1993), composer, musician, satirist, leader of The Mothers of Invention; grave is unmarked
- Gail Zappa (1945–2015), widow of Frank Zappa and trustee of the Zappa Family Trust; buried next to her husband
See also
References
- ^ a b "Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary". Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ The Studio for Southern California History. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Bahn, Paul (April 14, 2014). The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780759123793. Retrieved October 14, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Wilson, Scott (August 19, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476625997. Retrieved October 14, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Bahn, Paul (April 14, 2014). The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780759123793. Retrieved October 14, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c "10 Things You Might Not Have Known About Truman Capote". September 30, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Los Angeles' celebrity cemetery: Where the stars are buried". Stuff. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites, p. 221
- ^ Resting Places, p. 226
- ^ Wilson, Scott (August 19, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476625997. Retrieved October 14, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Library of Congress
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- ^ "Google Doodle gives tribute to cinematographer James Wong Howe on his 118th Birthday!". August 28, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ Wilkins, Frank. "The Suicide Death of Brian Keith – Reel Reviews – Official Site". Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ Bahn, Paul (April 14, 2014). The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780759123793. Retrieved October 14, 2018 – via Google Books.
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- ^ Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries, p. 218
- ^ Royce, Brenda Scott (October 14, 1990). Donna Reed: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313268069. Retrieved October 14, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries, p. 221
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
- map showing location of celebrity graves
- California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau Certificate of Authority – Cemetery, License Number 506, Funeral Establishment License Number 951
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Westwood Memorial Park