The
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a very large cemetery located at 1712 S. Glendale Avenue,
Glendale, California,
USA. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the
Hollywood area and as such, interred here are many of the pioneers of the American motion picture industry. As well, Forest Lawn is the final resting place for numerous celebrities and entertainers from what is referred to as Hollywood's
Golden Age. Some of the people interred here are:
- L. Frank Baum, author
- Wallace Beery, actor
- Humphrey Bogart, actor
- William Boyd[?], cowboy actor - Hopalong Cassidy
- Joe E. Brown[?], comedic actor
- Dorsey Burnette, early Rock and Roll singer and prolific songwriter
- Johnny Burnette, Rock and Roll pioneer singer
- George Burns & Gracie Allen, husband & wife comedy team
- Francis X. Bushman[?], actor
- Lon Chaney[?], actor
- Berton Churchill, actor
- Nat King Cole, singer
- Sam Cooke, singer
- Robert Cummings[?], actor
- Dorothy Dandridge, actress
- Sammy Davis, Jr., entertainer
- Walt Disney, film studio and entertainment park founder
- Sam De Grasse, actor
- Georges Delerue[?], French composer
- Fifi D'Orsay, actress
- Theodore Dreiser, author, wrote "An American Tragedy"
- Marie Dressler, Academy Award winning actress
- Don Drysdale[?], baseball great with the Los Angeles Dodgers
- W.C. Fields, comedic actor
- Errol Flynn, actor
- Clark Gable, actor
- King C. Gillette, businressman, founder of the razor company
- Huntley Gordon, actor
- Sid Grauman[?], Hollywood entertainer and theater owner
- Sydney Greenstreet, actor
- Jean Harlow[?], actress
- Athole Hawks[?], actress, sister of Norma Shearer, wife of Howard Hawks
- Jean Hersholt, actor, humanitarian
- Ted Knight[?], actor
- Alan Ladd[?], actor
- Louis L'Amour[?], author
- Carole Lombard, actress
- Jeanette MacDonald[?], actress
- Chico Marx, comedic actor
- Alfred Newman[?], composer
- Merle Oberon, actress
- Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist
- Tom Mix[?], cowboy actor
- Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first Bad Boy
- Mary Pickford, actress, businesswoman, Co-founder of United Artists
- Dick Powell, actor
- Norma Shearer, actress
- Red Skelton, comedian
- Tod Sloan[?], thoroughbred racing jockey
- Casey Stengel, manager of baseball's New York Yankees
- Jimmy Stewart, actor
- Robert Taylor[?], actor
- Irving Thalberg, " Boy Genuis" - motion picture studio executive
- Spencer Tracy, actor
- Mary Wells[?], Motown singer
- Robert Young, actor - "Father Knows Best"
See also: List of famous cemeteries
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