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.
[edit] Notable burials
- Edward Arnold (1890-1956), actor.
- Ed Begley (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 (1904-1986), comedian
- Betty Compson (1897-1974), pioneer film actress
- Chuck Connors (1921-1992), pro baseball player & actor: The Rifleman
- Henry Corden (1920-2005), actor
- Joseph Crehan (1883-1966), actor
- Lee De Forest (1873-1961), physicist & electrical engineer, inventor of the triode
- Roy Del Ruth (1893-1961), film director
- Allan Dwan (1885-1981), director, producer, screenwriter
- Angelina Estrada (1932-2005), actress
- Frank Faylen (1905-1985), 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, he is buried at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España
- Alice Joyce (1890-1955), early film star
- Kathryn Minner (1892-1969), an elderly character actress best known as The Little Old Lady from Pasadena in a series of television commercials for Dodge which aired in Southern California from 1964 to 1969.
- Clarence Nash (1904-1985), the voice of Donald Duck
- Eddie Quillan, (1907-1990), actor
- Trinidad Silva (1950-1988), TV and film actor
- Penny Singleton (1908-2003), actress, first woman president of an AFL-CIO union, played Blondie, voice of Jane Jetson
- Ritchie Valens (1941-1959), early Rock and Roll singer: La Bamba, died in a plane crash
- Jane Wyatt (1910-2006), actress
- Bruce Yarnell (1935-1973), actor, singer
