Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Location | Culver City, California |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 33°58′50″N 118°23′23″W / 33.98056°N 118.38972°WCoordinates: 33°58′50″N 118°23′23″W / 33.98056°N 118.38972°W |
| Type | Jewish |
| Website | Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary |
| Find a Grave | Hillside Memorial Park |
| The Political Graveyard | Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary |
The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is a Jewish cemetery located at 6001 West Centinela Avenue, in Culver City, California, USA. Many Jews from the entertainment industry are buried here. The cemetery is known for Al Jolson's elaborate tomb (designed by Los Angeles architect Paul Williams), a 75- foot-high domed monument atop a hill above a water cascade, all visible from the adjacent San Diego Freeway.[1][2]
Notable interments
- Irving Aaronson, composer
- Russ Alben, advertising executive and composer[3]
- Corey Allen, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- Sheldon Allman, actor, singer and songwriter
- Army Archerd, journalist and television host
- Frank Bank, Leave It To Beaver actor and later bond broker
- Sandy Baron, actor and comedian
- Gene Barry, actor
- Jack Benny, actor and comedian
- Henry Bergman, actor
- Milton Berle, actor and comedian
- Pandro S. Berman, producer and former head of RKO Radio Pictures
- Helen Beverley, actress
- Michael Bloomfield, musician
- Ben Blue, actor and comedian
- Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records
- Sorrell Booke, actor
- Irving Brecher, screenwriter, producer, director
- Bernie Brillstein, producer and talent agent
- Richard Brooks, director
- Marion Byron, actress
- Susan Cabot, actress
- Eddie Cantor, actor, comedian, and singer
- Nell Carter, actress and singer
- Jeff Chandler, actor
- Cyd Charisse, actress and dancer
- Ronni Chasen, publicist[4]
- Mickey Cohen, mobster
- Danny Dayton, actor
- Selma Diamond, actress and comedienne
- Julius J. Epstein, screenwriter
- Philip G. Epstein, screenwriter
- Max Factor, Sr., cosmetics magnate
- Max Factor, Jr., cosmetics businessman
- Percy Faith, musician
- Edith Flagg, fashion designer and businesswoman.[5]
- Arthur Freed, producer and songwriter
- Friz Freleng, animator
- Mary Leona Gage, beauty queen
- L. Wolfe Gilbert, composer (original interment site)
- Sid Gillman, Hall of Fame football coach
- William Goetz, producer and former head of Universal Studios
- Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), DJ
- Jerry Goldsmith, composer
- Mark Goodson, producer
- Eydie Gormé, singer
- Carl Greenberg, newspaper reporter and editor (Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Times)
Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg
- Hank Greenberg, MLB Hall of Famer
- Lorne Greene, actor
- Elliot Handler, businessman
- Ruth Handler, business executive who invented the Barbie doll
- Lou Holtz, actor and comedian
- Moe Howard, actor, comedian, and member of the Three Stooges (1897–1975)
- Sally Insul, actress[6]
- Arthur P. Jacobs, film producer, Planet of the Apes series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- David Janssen, actor
- George Jessel, actor and comedian
- Al Jolson, actor and singer
- Mickey Katz, comedy bandleader, father of Joel Grey
- Sam Katzman, producer and director
- Sammi Kane Kraft, actress and musician
- Philip N. Krasne, producer of the later Charlie Chan films and the Cisco Kid television series
- Paul Kohner, producer
- Sidney Korshak, labor lawyer and Chicago "fixer"
- Ely Landau, producer
- Mark Landon, musician, actor
- Michael Landon, actor
- Abe Lastfogel, Chairman, William Morris talent agency
- Sheldon Leonard, actor and producer
- Jules Levy, producer
- Mary Livingstone, actress and comedienne
- Abby Mann, screenwriter
- Hal March, actor and comedian
- Tony Martin, actor and singer
- Howard Morris, actor and comedian
- Vic Morrow, actor
- Jan Murray, actor and comedian
- Leonard Nimoy, actor
- Shelly Novack, actor
- Louis Nye, actor and comedian
- Joe Pasternak, producer
- Julia Phillips, author and producer
- Suzanne Pleshette, actress
- Tom Poston, actor (was not Jewish, but was married to Suzanne Pleshette at the time of his death[7])
- Deborah Raffin, actress and audiobook publisher[8]
- Paul Richards, actor
- Leo Robin, composer
- Stanley Ralph Ross, writer, actor
- Benny Rubin, actor
- Jerry Rubin, Yippie turned businessman, member of the Chicago Seven
- Billy Sands, actor
- Sherwood Schwartz, producer
- Irene Mayer Selznick, theatrical producer
- Freddie Sessler, entrepreneur[9]
- Julius Shulman, architect
- Dick Shawn, actor and comedian
- Allan Sherman, actor, comedian, and singer
- Robert B. Sherman, songwriter
- Dinah Shore, singer, actress and television host (partial cremated remains)
- George Sidney, director and producer
- Aaron Spelling, producer
- Peter Tomarken, television host
- Irving Wallace, author
- Sol M. Wurtzel, film producer
- Lew Wasserman, agent, studio executive
- Shelley Winters, actress
- Stan Winston, makeup artist
- Dennis Wolfberg, actor and comedian
- Sam Zimbalist, film editor
See also
References
- ↑ David Gebhard, Robert Winter, An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles (Gibbs Smith, rev. ed. 2003), ISBN 978-1586853082, p. 119. Excerpt available at Google Books.
- ↑ Edmon J. Rodmon, "You ain't heard Kol Nidre yet", Washington Jewish Week, September 13, 2012 – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
- ↑ "Bernard Alben Obituary". Legacy.com (Los Angeles Times). 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
- ↑ Higgins, Bill (2010-11-21). "Hollywood publicist laid to rest at emotional funeral". Reuters. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
- ↑ Victoria Talbot, 'Edith Flagg, Fashion Pioneer and Philanthropist, Dead at 94', The Beverly Hills Courier, August 22, 2014 Volume XXXXVIIII, Number 34, pp. 4;18
- ↑ "Sally Insul dies at 92: Actress appeared in 'Wedding Singer,' 'X-Files'". Variety Magazine (Variety.com). 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ↑ http://www.armyarcherd.com/2007/05/tom_poston_fare.html
- ↑ Elaine Woo, "Deborah Raffin dies at 59; actress was also a force in audio books", Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2012.
- ↑ Regan, Marilou (1 May 2013). "The Happening Freddy Sessler: "World’s Oldest Rolling Stones Groupie" (and Keith Richard’s Best Friend)". Loveyouliverollingstones.com. Retrieved 1 August 2014.