List of interments at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
The following is a list of notable individuals interred or inurned at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, United States.
A
- David Abel, cinematographer
- Joseph Achron, musician
- Walter Ackerman, actor
- Bert Adams, MLB player
- Don Adams, actor, Agent Maxwell Smart on TV's Get Smart
- Louis Adlon, actor
- Renée Adorée, actress
- Gilbert Adrian, MGM costume designer
- Helen Ainsworth, actress/producer
- Spottiswoode Aitken, actor
- Albert Akst, film editor
- Norman Alden, actor
- Erville Alderson, actor
- Frank Alexander, actor
- James Alexander, actor
- J. Grubb Alexander, screenwriter
- Charlie Allen, singer
- Lester Allen, actor
- Murray Alper, actor
- Albert Edward Anson, actor
- Andrew Arbuckle, actor
- Gus Arnheim, composer
- Max Asher, actor
- Sylvia Ashley, actress and socialite
- Gertrude Astor, actress
- Hal August, silent film actor
- David Avadon, magician and illusionist
- Charles Avery, actor
- Agnes Ayres, actress
B
- Leah Baird, actress and screenwriter
- Charles Graham Baker, screenwriter and director
- Reginald Baker, actor, athlete and stuntman
- Fred J. Balshofer, director and producer
- Peter Bardens, musician, founding member of the progressive rock band Camel
- George Barnes, cinematographer
- Jackson Barnett, folk figure
- Vince Barnett, actor
- James O. Barrows, actor
- Anne Bauchens, film editor
- Frank Beal, actor, director and screenwriter
- James H. Beatty, federal judge in Idaho
- William Beaudine, director and actor
- Tony Beckley, actor
- Charles Belcher, actor
- Monta Bell, director
- Ted Bennett, actor
- Curtis Benton, actor
- Clara Beranger, screenwriter
- Pearl Berg, supercentenarian
- Elmer Berger, inventor of the rear-view mirror
- Harry Bernard, actor and comedian
- Vic Berton, musician
- Charles Beyer, actor
- Herman Bing, actor
- Maurice Black, actor
- Paula Blackton, actress and director
- Richard Blackwell, fashion critic
- Mel Blanc, actor, comedian, and voice-over artist of Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera cartoons; his tombstone has his famous epitaph, "That's all folks"
- Lucille Bliss, actress and voice artist, best known as the voice of Smurfette from The Smurfs
- Lilian Bond, actress
- Gypsy Boots, fitness guru
- Egon Brecher, actor and director
- Joseph Carl Breil, singer, composer and director
- El Brendel, actor and comedian
- Felix Bressart, actor
- Monte Brewer, musician
- Charlotte Bridgwood, stage actress
- Jack Brooks, composer
- Coral Browne, actress
- Sam Buffington, actor
- Edward Bunker, actor, screenwriter and novelist
C
- Louis Calhern, actor
- Edwin Carewe, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- Horace B. Carpenter, actor
- Alexander Carr, actor
- Lynn Cartwright, actress, and wife of Leo Gordon
- Joseph Cawthorn, actor
- Harry Chandler publisher of the Los Angeles Times and investor
- Helen Chandler, actress
- Lane Chandler, actor
- Charles Chaplin Jr., actor, son of Charlie Chaplin
- Hannah Chaplin, actress, mother of Charlie Chaplin
- Emile Chautard, actor, director and screenwriter
- Al Christie, director, producer and screenwriter
- Charles Christie, movie studio owner
- Gertrude Claire, actress
- William Andrews Clark Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Lana Clarkson, actress and model
- Yvonne Craig, actress
- Angelica Cob-Baehler, music industry executive
- Iron Eyes Cody, actor
- Art Cohn, screenwriter
- Harry Cohn, co-founder of Columbia Pictures
- Jack Cohn, co-founder of Columbia Pictures
- Ralph Cohn, founder of Screen Gems
- Robert Cohn, motion picture producer
- Cornelius Cole, California Congressional Representative and U.S. Senator
- Lois Collier, actress
- Pierre Collings, screenwriter
- Edward Connelly, actor
- Thomas F. Cooke, Los Angeles City Council member,
- Lillian Kemble-Cooper, actress and singer, wife of actor Guy Bates Post
- Morty Corb, jazz musician
- Chris Cornell, musician and lead singer of the bands Soundgarden, Audioslave, and Temple of the Dog
- Lloyd Corrigan, actor
- Norman Cousins, author and editor
- Howard Crampton, actor
- William H. Crane, actor
- Henry Cronjager, cinematographer, Father of Edward Cronjager
- Alan Crosland, director
- James Cruze, actor and director
- Irving Cummings, film director and actor
- Ruth Cummings, actress
- Kevin Curran, television writer
- William Hughes Curran, actor and director
D
- Orlando da Costa, Portuguese Minister
- Dick Dale, American Guitarist and pioneer of surf music
- Cass Daley, actress, comedian and singer
- Viola Dana, actress
- Karl Dane, actor
- Bebe Daniels, actress
- Georgine Darcy, actress
- Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter
- Harry J. Davenport, actor
- Milla Davenport, actress
- Marion Davies, actress
- Reine Davies, actress
- Rosemary Davies, actress
- J. Gunnis Davis English actor and director
- William De Vaull, actor
- Doris Deane, actress
- Ashton Dearholt, actor
- Harry Delmar, producer and director
- Agnes DeMille, dancer
- Cecil B. DeMille, director and producer
- Clara DeMille, screenwriter, and wife of William C. DeMille
- Constance Adams DeMille, actress, and wife of Cecil B. DeMille
- William C. DeMille, director and writer
- Barry Dennen, actor
- Oliver Perry Dennis, architect
- Leo Diamond, musician, songwriter, actor
- George Spiro Dibie, cinematographer
- Basil Dickey, screenwriter
- Gloria Dickson, actress
- Helen Dickson, actress
- John Frances Dillon, actor and director
- Andreas Dippel, opera singer
- Molly Dodd, actress
- Ted Donaldson, actor
- Frances Drake, actress
- Larry Drake, actor
- Jesse Duffy, screenwriter
- Bobby Dunn, actor and comedian
- Eddie Dunn, actor and director
- Richard Dunn, actor
- Elmer Dyer, cinematographer
E
- B. Reeves Eason, actor, director and screenwriter
- B. Reeves Eason Jr., actor
- Maude Eburne, actress
- Nelson Eddy, actor and singer
- Robert Edeson, actor
- Walker Edmiston, actor and voice actor
- Lillian Elliott, actress
- Louise Emmons, actress
- Billy Engle, actor
- Skinnay Ennis, musician
- Jeannie Epper, actress and stuntwoman
- Joseph Ermolieff, Russian film producer
- Fred Esmelton, actor
- Alphonse Ethier, actor
- Douglas Evans, actor
- Charles Eyton, former general manager of Paramount Pictures
F
- Max Fabian, cinematographer
- Douglas Fairbanks, actor
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor
- Mabel Fairbanks, figure skater
- Marion Fairfax, screenwriter
- Daniel L. Fapp, cinematographer
- Timothy Farrell, actor
- Julia Faye, actress
- Maude Fealy, actress
- Charles K. Feldman, agent and film producer
- Hugo Felix, composer
- Mark Fenton, actor
- Perry Ferguson, art director
- Flora Finch, actress
- Peter Finch, actor
- Victor Fleming, director, best known for The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind
- Edna Flugrath, actress
- John Taintor Foote, writer
- John Foreman, film producer
- Kim Fowley, singer-songwriter, actor, and music producer/publisher
- Charles Robert Francis, recipient of the United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor
- Sidney Franklin, director
- Kathleen Freeman, actress
- Otto Fries, actor
- Joe Frisco, actor and comedian
- George Froeschel, screenwriter
- Leo Fuchs, actor
G
- Victor A. Gangelin, set designer
- Ed Gardner, actor and comedian
- Judy Garland, actress and singer
- Tony Gaudio, cinematographer
- Janet Gaynor, actress
- Gidget Gein, musician, bassist for Marilyn Manson
- Carmelita Geraghty, actress, wife of Carey Wilson
- Estelle Getty, actress and comedian
- Maury Gertsman, cinematographer
- Etienne Girardot, actor
- Irving Glassberg, cinematographer and discovered Clint Eastwood
- Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic and music critic
- Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman, film producer and filmmaker
- Steve Golin, producer
- Leo Gordon, actor and screenwriter; husband of Lynn Cartwright
- Vera Gordon, actress
- Archie Gottler, director, screenwriter, composer and actor
- Griffith J. Griffith, park and observatory donor, namesake of Griffith Park
- Bob Guccione, magazine publisher, founder of Penthouse
- Edmund Gwenn, actor
H
- George Hackathorne, actor
- Joan Hackett, actress
- Bianca Halstead, musician
- Harley Hamilton, musician
- John Hamilton, actor
- Curtis Harrington, director
- Kenneth Harlan, actor
- Valerie Harper, actress
- Mildred Harris, actress
- Henry B. Walthall, actor
- Don C. Harvey, actor
- Jean Havez, songwriter
- Wanda Hawley, actress
- Lennie Hayton, composer, conductor and arranger
- Lillie Hayward, actress and screenwriter
- Anne Heche, actress
- Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, wife of Ernest Hemingway
- Woody Herman, musician and clarinetist
- Benjamin Franklin Hilliker, Medal of Honor recipient
- Darla Hood, actress and singer
- David Horsley, built the first Hollywood movie studio
- Jean Howard, actress and photographer
- Rance Howard, actor; father of Ron Howard
- Renate Hoy, actress and beauty queen
- H. Bruce Humberstone, actor and director
- William J. Hunsaker, politician and attorney
- Marsha Hunt, actress
- Olivia Hussey, actress
- John Huston, actor, director, and screenwriter
- Halyna Hutchins, cinematographer
I
- Tonya Ingram, poet and disability advocate
- Mihai Iacob, film director and screenwriter
- Bram Inscore, musician and producer
J
- Steve James, actor
- Rick Jason, actor
- Herb Jeffries, singer and actor
- Christopher Jones, actor
- Quincy Jones, record producer and composer
- Walter Jurmann, composer
- Fran Jeffries, actress and singer
K
- Olga Kaljakin, film poster designer
- Bronisław Kaper, composer
- Roscoe Karns, actor
- Theodore von Karman, physicist
- Jenny Twitchell Kempton, singer
- Michael Kidd, choreographer
- May Kitson, actress
- Skelton Knaggs, actor
- Andrew Koenig, actor and filmmaker
- Zoltán Korda, director
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
- Kathleen Kirkham, actress
- Bob Kulick, rock guitarist
L
- Harry Lachman, artist, set designer and film director
- Don LaFontaine, voice-over actor
- Arthur Lake, actor
- Barbara La Marr, actress
- David Lander, actor
- Mark Lanegan, singer
- Jesse L. Lasky, pioneer, founded Famous Players–Lasky, which became Paramount Pictures
- Jesse Lasky, Jr., screenwriter, son of Jesse Lasky
- Barry Latman, baseball player
- Florence Lawrence, actress
- Lillian Lawrence, actress
- Henry Lehrman, director
- Michael Lerner, actor
- Edward LeSaint, actor
- Cathy Lewis, actress
- Elmo Lincoln, actor
- Walter Long, actor
- Perry Lopez, actor
- Peter Lorre, actor
- David Lynch, film director
- Ben Lyon, actor
M
- Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member,
- Jeanie MacPherson, actress and screenwriter
- Richard Maibaum, screenwriter
- Leo D. Maloney, pioneer actor, director and producer
- Paul Malvern, stuntman, actor, and producer
- Jayne Mansfield, actress
- Hank Mann, comic actor of silent films
- Paul Marco, actor
- Peverell Marley, cinematographer
- Tully Marshall, actor, producer and director
- Vivian Marshall, vaudeville performer and silent film actress
- June Mathis, screenwriter
- Hattie McDaniel, actress
- Darren McGavin, actor
- Pearl Cole McMullen, soprano
- Adolphe Menjou, actor
- Lou Merrill, actor
- Charles B. Middleton, actor
- Laura Spellman-Middleton, actress
- Ken Miles, sports car racing engineer and driver
- Arthur Charles Miller, cinematographer
- Charles Mintz, animation producer and distributor
- Rhea Mitchell, actress
- Robert Mitchell, organist
- Trevor Moore, comedian
- Paul Muni, actor
N
- Dudley Nichols, screenwriter
- Jack Nitzsche, composer
- Mary Nolan, actress
- Maila Nurmi, actress and television host known as Vampira
O
- Donald Allen Oreck, actor
- Harrison Gray Otis, Los Angeles Times publisher
- Frank Overton, actor
- Seena Owen, actress and screenwriter
P
- John Paragon, actor, comedian, writer, director
- Art Pepper, musician, saxophonist
- Barbara Pepper, actress
- Joan Perry, actress
- Tomata du Plenty, singer, founder of the punk band, The Screamers
- Ben Pollack, drummer and bandleader
- Guy Bates Post, actor
- Eleanor Powell, actress and dancer
- Tyrone Power, actor
- Marie Prevost, actress
- Madelyn Pugh, co-writer of ''I Love Lucy''
R
- Alan Rachins, actor
- Dee Dee Ramone, musician and member of The Ramones
- Johnny Ramone, musician and member of The Ramones
- Virginia Rappe, actress who died after a party thrown by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
- Marie Rappold, singer
- Tom Reddin, LAPD police chief
- Rodd Redwing, actor, and the world's greatest quick draw artist
- George Regas, actor
- Pedro Regas, actor
- Paul Reubens, comedian and actor, best known for Pee-Wee Herman
- Burt Reynolds, actor and filmmaker
- Tom Ricketts, actor and director
- Nelson Riddle, musician and composer
- Dylan Rieder, professional skateboarder
- Al Ritz, actor and comedian; member of Ritz Brothers
- Harry Ritz, actor/comedian, member of Ritz Brothers
- Jimmy Ritz, actor and comedian; member of Ritz Brothers
- Theodore Roberts, actor
- Edward G. Robinson Jr., actor, son of Edward G. Robinson
- Mickey Rooney, actor and entertainer
- Rosa Rosanova, Russian-born stage and film actress
- Arthur Rosson, director
- Harold Rosson, cinematographer
- Richard Rosson, director, actor
S
- Hans J. Salter, composer
- Tom Santschi, actor
- Ann Savage, actress
- Joseph Schildkraut, actor
- Rudolph Schildkraut, actor, father of actor Joseph Schildkraut
- Leon Schlesinger, head of animation at Warner Bros.
- Herman Schopp, cinematographer
- Tony Scott, producer and director; younger brother of Ridley Scott
- Vito Scotti, actor
- Rolfe Sedan, actor
- Moe Sedway, mobster
- Harry Semels, actor
- Almira Sessions, actress
- Dirk Shafer, model and actor
- Peggy Shannon, actress
- Harold M. Shaw, stage and screen actor, director of silent films in the United States, England, and South Africa
- Barry Shear, producer and director
- Ann Sheridan, actress
- Natasha Shneider, musician and actress
- Bugsy Siegel, gangster
- Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman comic books
- Larry Siegel, comedy writer
- Paul Sorvino, actor
- Chief Luther Standing Bear, Sioux Nation actor
- Vsevolod Starosselsky, Russian émigré, former military commander
- Leonid Steele, painter
- Ford Sterling, actor
- Stella Stevens, actress, director and model
- Lynn Marie Stewart, actress
- Frank R. Strayer, actor, film writer, director, producer
- Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer and actress
- Josef Swickard, actor
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, actor
- Harold Switzer, actor, older brother of Carl Switzer
T
- Constance Talmadge, actress
- Natalie Talmadge, actress
- Norma Talmadge, actress
- Eva Tanguay, singer
- Estelle Taylor, actress
- William Desmond Taylor, director
- Verree Teasdale, actress
- Judy Tenuta, comedian
- Terry, dog actress, which played Toto in The Wizard of Oz
- Stacy Title, film director
- Charles E. Toberman, builder of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
- Gregg Toland, cinematographer
- Tamara Toumanova, actress
- Noel Toy, actress and dancer; wife of Carleton Young
- Victor Travers, actor
- Robert Trebor, actor
- Al Treloar, bodybuilder and athletic trainer
- James Troesh, quadriplegic actor and screenwriter
- Mabel Trunnelle, actress
- James Michael Tyler, actor, best known for Friends
- John Tyrrell, actor
U
- Edgar Ulmer, director
- Augusta W. Urquhart, social leader and clubwoman
V
- Rudolph Valentino, actor
- James Victor, actor
- Oleg Vidov, actor
W
- George D. Wallace, actor
- Jean Wallace, actress
- Franz Waxman, composer
- Steve Wayne, actor
- Clifton Webb, actor
- Wilson Weddington, early Los Angeles landowner
- Ern Westmore, make-up artist, member of the Westmore makeup family
- David White, actor
- Marjorie White, actress
- Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Named Hollywood while honeymooning with his wife; gravesite is marked "The Father Of Hollywood"
- Harvey Henderson Wilcox, founded the city of Hollywood
- Rozz Williams, musician
- Margaret J. Winkler, film executive and animation producer
- Louis Wolheim, actor
- Ed Wood, actor
- Holly Woodlawn, actress, former Warhol superstar, mentioned in Lou Reed's song, "Walk on the Wild Side"
- Frank E. Woods, screenwriter
- Fay Wray, actress
Y
- Anton Yelchin, actor
- Duke York, actor
- Francine York, actress
- Victor Young, composer
Z
- Erich Zeisl, composer