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Ager, Milton b. October 6, 1893 d. May 6, 1979
Composer, Songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a movie house intermission pianist for silent movie theaters and went on to become a vaudevillian. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was writing songs for Hollywood motion picture studios with scores for the films "Honky Tonk, King of Jazz", "I'm No Body's Baby" and "Chasing Rainbows". His many hit songs included "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes", "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas!", "Ain't She Sweet?" and "Happy Days Are Here Again"...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Main urn garden, southwest corner of Section D.
GPS coordinates: 34.0583382, -118.4414520 (hddd.dddd)
Aidman, Charles b. January 21, 1925 d. November 7, 1993
Actor. Born in Frankfort, Indiana, he was film scenarist and television actor for four decades. He made his film debut in "Destination Space" (1959), followed by "Pork Chop Hill" (1959), "War Hunt" (1962), "Sergeant Ryker" (1965), "Hour of the Gun" (1967) and "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (1969). Among his many television credits include appearances on the "Twilight Zone", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Bonanza", "The Wild, Wild West", "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons". He died in Beverly...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Cancer
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Room of Prayer
Albert, Eddie b. April 22, 1906 d. May 26, 2005
Actor. Born Edward Albert Heimberger, he is best remembered for his role of lawyer-turned-farmer ‘Oliver Wendell Douglas' on the classic television comedy series "Green Acres". His career began on radio, and appeared on the earliest test for television in 1936. He made his motion picture debut in the military academy comedy "Brother Rat" in 1938, and went on to co-star in "Brother Rat and a Baby" and "Four Wives" in 1939. Enlisting in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: David)
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Albert, Margo b. May 10, 1917 d. July 17, 1985
Actress. Born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado, she acted mostly under the singular name of "Margo", and often showcased her dancing ability in her roles. He best known role was as "Maria" in the 1937 film "Lost Horizon." She was the wife of actor Eddie Albert, mother of actor Edward Albert and niece of bandleader ...[Read More]
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 61
Alexander, Shana b. October 6, 1925 d. June 23, 2005
Journalist, Author. She is best known for her debates with conservative journalist James J. Kilpatrick during the "Point-Counter Point" segments that ended every episode of the television news program "60 Minutes" in the 1970s.
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Allister, Claud b. October 3, 1888 d. July 26, 1970
Actor in 72 films including: "Slightly Scarlet," "Platinum Blonde," "The Private Life of Henry VIII," "The Dark Angel," "Dracula's Daughter," "Lillian Russell," and "Kiss Me Kate." (Bio by: Tony Scott)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Alpar, Gitta b. February 5, 1903 d. February 17, 1991
Opera Singer. She was a soprano who performed in the principal theatres of Europe during the years prior to World War II. Born Regina Klopfer into a musical family (her father was a Cantor), Miss Alpar showed early evidence of talent. After private voice and piano study, she entered the University of Budapest in 1916, and made her operatic debut in Budapest in 1923. Through the 1920s, she sang the leading coloratura soprano roles in the major opera houses of Berlin and Vienna, with particular...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Memories
GPS coordinates: 34.0584717, -118.4397888 (hddd.dddd)
Annakin, Ken b. August 10, 1914 d. April 22, 2009
Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty feature films from the mid-1940s into the 1980s. He is best known to many for the war pictures "The Longest Day" (1962) and "Battle of the Bulge" (1965). Born in Yorkshire, England, he worked as a journalist before he embarked upon a career in the cinema. He started out as a cameraman's assistant and an assistant director before making his directing debut in 1947 with the film "Holiday Camp". Among his other memorable credits are "...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Arden, Eve b. April 30, 1908 d. November 12, 1990
Actress. Born Eunice Quedens in Mill Valley, California to Lucille and Charles Peter Quedens. She left high school at 16 and joined a stock theater company. She appeared in a few films under her real name. Her Broadway debut came in 1934, when she was cast in the stage play "Ziegfeld Follies," before entering radio in 1945 on "The Danny Kaye Show." CBS President William S. Paley offered her the title role on a new series called "Our Miss Brooks." She was a sensation. Her performance inspired...[Read More] (Bio by: Jane Eubanks)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, #81
Armstrong, Robert b. November 20, 1890 d. April 20, 1973
Actor. Born Robert William Armstrong, he was a popular character performer best remembered for his role as Carl Denham in "King Kong" (1933). With the success of "King Kong", he reprised his role in "The Son of Kong" (1933) and "Mighty Joe Young" (1949). He appeared in 127 films between 1927 and 1964, to include "The Racketeer" (1929), "The Fugitive" (1947), "The Sea of Grass" (1947) "The Peacemaker" (1956) and "Girl with an Itch" (1958). In the 1950s, he appeared as Sheriff Andy Anderson on...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Garden of Roses [unmarked]
Arnold, Jack b. October 14, 1916 d. March 17, 1992
Film and TV director. A former stage and screen actor, he joined in the US Signal Corps in the 1940s and worked with famed documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty. After the war Arnold directed and produced about 25 documentaries for government agencies and private industries, getting an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature for "With These Hands" (1951). Tackling fiction films in the early 1950s with Universal Studios he specialized in science-fiction and horror films, among them "It...[Read More] (Bio by: Fritz Tauber)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Ashes in a communal space in a rose garden
Aubrey, James T. b. December 14, 1918 d. September 3, 1994
Television Producer. Born in La Salle, Illinois, he was know as the champion of CBS Television sitcoms, (1959-65). His many noted productions included "The Twilight Zone", "Route 66", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Mister Ed", "Gilligan's Island" and "The Defenders". In 1969, he took on the job of production manager at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he oversaw the dismantling of the company and selling off the back-lot acreage in Culver City. He also managed the distribution offices, 40 years of props...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Urn Garden
GPS coordinates: 34.0591202, -118.4418564 (hddd.dddd)
Averback, Hy b. October 21, 1920 d. October 14, 1997
Actor, Motion Picture Producer, Director.
Cause of death: Died following heart surgery
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Rear flower garden, wall niche
Avery, Phyllis b. November 14, 1924 d. May 19, 2011
Actress. Born in New York City, daughter of screenwriter Stephen Morehouse Avery, she marked her professional acting debut at the age of twelve on the Broadway stage in the musical "Orchids Preferred" (1937), followed by "Three Waltzes" (1937 to 1938) and "Charley's Aunt" (1940 to 1941). She broadened her skills at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and initiated her Hollywood career in the picture "Queen For a Day" (1951), and had roles in the films "Ruby Gentry" (1952) and "The Best Things...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Ayres, Lew b. December 28, 1908 d. December 30, 1996
Actor. Born in Minneapolis and raised in San Diego, Lew Ayres was a college dropout, dance-band musician, still in his teens, when he was discovered by Hollywood talent scouts and made his film debut in The Sophomore (1929) and appeared opposite Greta Garbo in The Kiss that same year. His greatest role and one that had a profound affect on the actor in real life, was playing the patriotic, young German soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). Under contract to Universal, Ayres...[Read More] (Bio by: Craig Johnson)
Cause of death: Complications from a coma
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
GPS coordinates: 34.0582314, -118.4415970 (hddd.dddd)
Backus, Henny b. March 21, 1911 d. December 9, 2004
Actress, Best Selling Author. Wife of actor Jim Backus. Best known for her role as 'Cora Dithers' in the 1968 sitcom "Blondie," which co-starred her husband. She also appeared with her husband in a second season episode of "Gilligan’s Island." The pair appeared in several films together including "Don’t Make Waves," "Hello Down There," "Meet Me In Las Vegas" and "The Great Man." Mrs. Backus made her Broadway debut under...[Read More] (Bio by: David)
Cause of death: Series of strokes
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Backus, Jim b. February 25, 1913 d. July 3, 1989
Actor. A screen, stage, radio and television figure, he is best known for being the voice of the cartoon character "Mr. Magoo," and for playing 'Thurston Howell' on the classic 1960s television show "Gilligan's Island." Perhaps his best known film role was as James Dean's ineffectual father in "Rebel Without a Cause." His other films include "Pat and Mike," "Man of a Thousand Faces," "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," and "Myra Breckinridge."
Cause of death: Complications of Parkinson's disease
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, #203
GPS coordinates: 34.0582390, -118.4414978 (hddd.dddd)
Baer, Richard b. April 28, 1928 d. February 22, 2008
Television Screenwriter. Born in New York City, he contributed to some of the most popular programs from the 1950s into the 1980s, and earned an Emmy Award-nomination for series "Hennesey". Baer began his career writing for series "The Life of Riley" and had script credits with, "Leave It to Beaver", "Have Gun- Will Travel", "The Munsters", "The Doris Day Show", "That Girl", "Bewitched", "M*A*S*H", and "Who's the Boss?". (Bio by: C.S.)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Rose Garden
Ball, Arthur b. August 16, 1894 d. August 27, 1951
Motion Picture Cinematographer. He worked on the films "The Black Pirate" (1926), and "Wanderer Of The Wasteland" (1924). Ball was also one of the 36 persons who helped founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). (Bio by: K)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Barbour, Dave Michael b. May 28, 1912 d. December 11, 1965
Musician and songwriter. A well-respected guitarist who worked with some of the major leaders of the Big Band era. He was working with Benny Goodman when he met Peggy Lee, whom he married in 1943. The union with Lee produced a daughter, Nikki Lee, as well as the popular compositions "Manana (Is Good Enough for Me)" and "It's a Good Day." Their marriage ended in 1952 and Lee went on to greater success and three additional marriages. Late in life, Lee wrote in her autobiography that shortly...[Read More] (Bio by: Chris Mirando)
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Ashes Interred in Garden of Serenity

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