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Costello, Lou (Louis Francis Cristillo) b. March 6, 1906 d. March 3, 1959
Actor, Comedian. He is best remembered for his partnership with Bud Abbott. Currently, he and Bud Abbott are the only non-sports figures honored in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, for their famous "Who's on First" routine. He tried to mention his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey, in virtually every television show and movie. Born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, he began work at MGM and Warner...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, Block 354
Costello (Altschuk), Mae b. 1882 d. August 2, 1929
Actress. Born in Brooklyn, she began performing in touring stock companies as a teen and married fellow actor Maurice Costello in 1902. Although the couple seperated in 1910, they did not divorce until 1927 and Mae continued to appear on stage and screen as "Mrs. Maurice Costello". Her films include "Her Crowning Glory" (1911), "The Mills of the Gods" (1912), "When a Woman Loves" (1915), and "Her Right To Live" (...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 877
Costello, Maurice b. February 22, 1877 d. October 29, 1950
Actor. One of the cinema's earliest matinee idols. The son on Irish immigrants, he was born in Pittsburgh and took to performing in local vaudeville at age 17. By 1900 he was starring on Broadway in such plays as "Scotland Yard" and "The Kentucky Feud". While appearing in "The Cowboy and the Lady" (1902) he married his co-star, Mae Altschuk; they had two daughters, future actresses [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 877, Grave 7
Cox, Phyllis Grayce b. October 16, 1928 d. May 20, 2004
Actress. She was Shirley Temple's understudy and was an original member of the "Our Gang" comedy series. She studied dance with Bill "Beaujangles" Robinson, and danced with Gene Kelly. She could have been a star, but chose instead to fulfill her life's role as a daughter, niece, wife, mother and grandmother. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Crosthwaite, Ivy b. December 1, 1897 d. November 8, 1962
Actress. She was one of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties, a group of young starlets (which also included Gloria Swanson and Mabel Normand) who appeared bare-legged in Sennett's early comedies. A native of San Diego, California, her other film credits include, "A Game Of Old Knight" (1915), "Fickle Fatty's Fall" (1915), A Janitor's Wife Temptation" (1915), "Fatty And The Broadway Stars" (1915), "By Stork Delivery" (1916), and "His Lying Heart" (1916). She retired from acting in 1932 to...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Denham, Austin b. 1849
US Navy Peacetime Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served in the United States Navy as a Seaman on board the "USS Kansas." He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery near Greytown, Nicaragua, on April 12, 1872. His citation reads “Displaying great coolness and self-possession at the time Comdr. A. F. Crosman and others were drowned, Denham, by heroism and personal exertion, prevented greater loss of life”. His Medal was awarded to him on July 9, 1872. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section B, Tier 2, Grave 38
Diaz, Jose b. December 9, 1919 d. August 2, 1942
Jose Diaz's mysterious death is commonly known as the Sleepy Lagoon Murder. His death sparked a huge trial in Los Angeles in which hundreds of Mexican-Americans were unjustly arrested. A riot between American servicemen and Mexican-American citizens broke out several months after the Diaz death. Numerous movies have been made and many books have been written about the incident. (Bio by: Joe Walker)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Dillon, Henry Clay b. November 6, 1846 d. April 10, 1912
Attorney. He served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1892 to 1894. Born in Wisconsin, he practiced law in Denver before moving to Southern California in 1884. A Democrat, he was an early supporter of Women's Suffrage and campaigned for the restoration of California's historic Catholic missions. His single term as Los Angeles District Attorney was uneventful. Dillon later served as President of the Long Beach School Board and as a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner. In 1900 he...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section C, Lot 80, Grave 4
Dillon, Josephine b. January 26, 1884 d. November 10, 1971
Drama Coach, Actress. The first wife of Clark Gable. The daughter of prominent attorney Henry Clay Dillon, she was born in Denver and raised in Long Beach, California. After graduating from Stanford University in 1908, she pursued an unremarkable stage career and then set up an acting studio in Portland, Oregon, in 1923...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section C, Lot 80, Grave 4 (This is the stone on the family plot. There is no individual marker for Josephine)
Dockweiler, John Francis b. September 19, 1895 d. January 31, 1943
US Congressman, Attorney. Elected to represent California's 16th District in the Seventy-third and two succeeding Congresses, he served from 1933 to 1939. Dockweiler was born in Los Angeles, where his grandfather was an early Anglo settler. His father, Isidore Dockweiler, was a prominent local attorney and politician for half a century. A bout of rheumatic fever at age 16 left him with lifelong heart problems, but what he lacked in physical stamina he made up for with ambition. After graduating...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Doheny, Carrie Estelle b. August 2, 1875 d. October 30, 1958
Philanthropist. The second wife of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. Born Carrie Estelle Betzold in Philadelphia, she moved to Los Angeles with her German immigrant parents in 1890. She met Doheny in 1899 while working as his company's telephone operator, and they married the following year. With her husband often away on business Carrie took charge of the family's personal expenses, including the management of...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, to the right of the altar
Doheny Sr., Edward L. b. August 10, 1856 d. September 8, 1935
Industrialist. Developer of the oil industry in Southern California and key figure in the Teapot Dome scandal. The son of Irish immigrants, he was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. After brief employment as a surveyor of government lands in Kansas, he spent 14 hardscrabble years prospecting for gold and silver in Arizona and New Mexico, with little luck. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1890, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, but his legal practice soon failed. He was nearly...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, to the right of the altar
Dominguez, Beatrice b. September 6, 1896 d. February 27, 1921
Actress. She made screen history dancing a tango with Rudolph Valentino in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921). This was the first time that sultry dance appeared in an American film; the scene captivated audiences and made Valentino a star. It is still one of the most famous moments of silent cinema. Dominguez was born in San Bernadino, California. After making her film debut in 1914, she danced in vaudeville...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section A, Tier 5, Grave 1
Dragna, Jack b. April 18, 1891 d. February 23, 1956
Organized Crime Figure. Made member of the Chicago Cosa Nostra. The most successful, but least known of any Los Angeles crime boss. He was not a publicity seeker like Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen, which allowed him to die of natural causes and not to pass away in jail. He lived in Los Angeles most of his career, and made his living off of gambling and prostitution. He, along with mobser Johnny Roselli ran a telgraph system called the "Race Wire". It allowed bookie joints to get fast racing...[Read More] (Bio by: Joe Walker)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Dunne, Irene b. December 20, 1898 d. September 4, 1990
Actress. Born on December 20, 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, she was named Irene Marie Dunne. Early in life took an interest in singing and went to New York City aspiring to be a part of the Metropolitan Opera. This did not work out as she planned but she went on to Chicago where she became part of the musical "Irene." In 1929, Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, while riding in an elevator with her "discovered her" and soon after granting her an audition, featured her in the musical &...[Read More] (Bio by: Christian)
Cause of death: Heart failure
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, Block 353
Fay, Frank b. November 17, 1891 d. September 25, 1961
Entertainer. One of the first modern stand-up comedians. Born Francis Anthony Conner in San Francisco, he began appearing in Vaudeville during World War I and debuted on Broadway in 1918. Fay's sophisticated irony and relaxed, conversational style influenced a generation of comics, including Jack Benny. Typically dressed in top hat and tails, he shot down hecklers without raising his voice and defeated all rivals in duels of wits. (His response to a challenge from Milton Berle: "I...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section F, Lot 1583, Grave 12
Fenwick (Barrymore), Irene b. September 5, 1887 d. December 24, 1936
Actress. Born Irene Frizell in Chicago, she began acting in local theatre and made her Broadway debut in "The Brass Bottle" (1910). A vivacious redhead, adept at both drama and comedy, she had a forceful stage presence that belied her tiny stature (she stood only 4'11"). During the mid-1910s Fenwick flirted with movie stardom, playing wronged women and vamps in such films as "The Sentimental Lady" (1915), "The Woman Next Door" (1915), "A Coney Island Princess" (1916), and "The Sin...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, Block 352
Fetchit (Perry), Stepin (Lincoln) b. May 30, 1902 d. November 19, 1985
Actor. Hollywood's first African-American movie star. Born in Key West, Florida, he ran away from home at 14 to join a minstrel show and graduated to the vaudeville circuit as a comedic song-and-dance man. He allegedly took his stage name from a racehorse that had won him some money. His first screen appearance was in the silent "In Old Kentucky" (1927). In an era when most black roles in American films were still being played by white actors in burnt cork, Fetchit's magnetic, scene-...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section K, Lot T-13, Grave 116
Filippo, Lou b. December 1, 1925 d. November 2, 2009
Boxing Figure. He enjoyed a career of more than 60 years in the sport. Born in Los Angeles, he served in the United States Navy during World War II. As a boxer, he amassed 250 amateur fights before turning professional in 1947. He compiled a record of 23 wins (8 knockouts), 9 losses and 3 draws before retiring as a fighter in 1957. Among the opponents he fought include future Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz. As a referee or judge, he was involved in more than 80 championship bouts. Among his...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Foster, Stephen Clark b. 1820 d. January 28, 1898
4th and 6th Mayor of Los Angeles. He served from 1854-1855, and again later in 1856. From January 1, 1848, until California attained statehood in 1850, he served as "alcalde" of Los Angeles. Because of this, Foster has often been referred to as the first American mayor of L.A. His first elected office under statehood, was as a member of the City Council. (Bio by: Scott Groll)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 304, Grave 4

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