Browse by Cemetery: Holy Cross Cemetery

Records 1 to 20

Records 21 to 40 (of 282 total matches)

Records 41 to 60

Jump to results page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Filter by fame level: All Famous NamesSomewhat FamousVery Famous

Attention:You are browsing our famous burial locations. If you are
looking for a non-famous grave, please start from our home page.

• Boyer, Charles    b. August 28, 1899  d. August 26, 1978
  Actor. Born in Figeac, France, he was a distinguished performer who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. He began his career in the theater and made his big screen debut in was "L'homme du large" (1920). Relocating to America, he became a US citizen in 1942 and performed on Broadway, where he received two Best Actor Tony Awards in 1952 and 1963. He received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and his most memorable film performances included "Love Affair" (1939), "...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Cause of death: Suicide (overdosed on seconal)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: St. Ann Section, 5, L186
   
• Brady, Scott    b. September 13, 1924  d. April 16, 1985
  Actor. Born Gerard Kenneth Tierney in Brooklyn, New York. Brother of actors Lawrence Tierney and Ed Tracy. He served in the Navy during World War II, where he was a Navy boxing champion. He was a lumberjack early in life before taking up acting. Brady took drama classes, appearing in his first film, "Canon City," in 1948. He usually played the tough guy roles as in the films, "He Walked by Night" and "Johnny Guitar." He appeared regularly on the 1970s TV cop show, "Police Story." He was offered...[Read More] (Bio by: Jane Eubanks)
  Cause of death: Emphysema
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Mausoleum, Block 156, Crypt B7
   
• Brasselle, Keefe B.    b. February 7, 1923  d. July 7, 1981
  Actor. Born John Brasselli in Elyria, Ohio, he was a film-television performer, also a producer and author. A veteran of over thirty films, he was most noted for the role as Earl Eastman in "A Place In the Sun" (1951) and for the lead role as Eddie Cantor in "The Eddie Cantor Story" (1953). In the summer of 1963 he starred in a brief TV series called "The Keefe Brasselle Show" and in 1964, he produced a few new TV series such as "The Report", which were eventually canceled due to poor ratings...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Cause of death: Cirrhosis of the liver
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section R, Tier 29, Grave 168
   
• Breen, Joseph Ignatius    b. October 14, 1890  d. December 5, 1965
  Motion Picture Figure. He served as director of the Production Code Administration from 1934 to 1954. It served as the self-censoring agency for the Motion Picture Association of America.
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section P Lot 327
  GPS coordinates: 33.9929619, -118.3849487 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Brisson, Frederick    b. March 17, 1913  d. October 8, 1984
  Theatrical Producer. Tony Award-winning Danish-born stage and motion picture producer of the 1930s through the 1970s. Son of actor Carl Brisson. Married for many years to revered actress Rosalind Russell. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  Cause of death: Stroke
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section M, L-536, space 1
   
• Brown, Robert O. 'Bob'  b. February 8, 1942  d. November 18, 1978
  Journalist, Jonestown Murder Victim. Overcoming racial prejudice to become a news cameraman, Brown was a 12 year veteran working for NBC news in Los Angeles. In 1978, following Congressman Leo Ryan announced he was going to Guyana to investigate Rev. Jim Jones and his People's Temple settlement of Jonestown, Brown was recruited to be part of an NBC news crew that would film the trip, despite having had premonitions that it would result in his death. Arriving in Guyana on November 14, the group...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
   
• Brunetti, Argentina    b. August 31, 1907  d. December 20, 2005
  Actress. Best remembered as 'Mrs. Martini' in the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life." She began her show business career at the age of three in a walk on part in the opera, "Cavalleria Rusticana" and followed her mother actress Mimi Aguglia's footsteps in the theater performing several supporting roles on stages in Europe, and South America. She landed a contract with MGM in 1937. At first she spent her time dubbing the voices of [Read More] (Bio by: The Perplexed Historian)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Main Mausoleum, Corridor B-70, Crypt B-2
   
• Butler, Daws    b. November 16, 1916  d. May 18, 1988
  Cartoon Voice Actor. He was the voice of Beany on the local LA puppet show of Beany and Cecil on KTLA, Los Angeles, in the early 50s.  He was the voice of many Hanna-Barbara Cartoon characters,including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie, Elroy Jetson and Henry Orbit on the Jetsons, Quisp, Aesop's son, Cap'n Crunch, Hokey Wolf, Mr. Jinx and Dixie of Pixie and Dixie, and Chilly Willy.
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Mother of Sorrows, section 515
   
• Candy, John    b. October 31, 1950  d. March 4, 1994
  Actor. Born the second son of Sidney James and Evangeline Aker Candy in the Toronto suburb of East York, Canada. He lost his father to heart failure in 1955. John attended Holy Cross Catholic School and Neil McNeil High School. He studied drama briefly at a community college before he found a position with the Children's Theater in Ontario. His television debut was CBC's children's program ‘Coming Up Rosie.' In 1977, he was offered a position with the legendary Second City Troupe in Chicago. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  Cause of death: Heart Attack
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Mausoleum, Room 7, Crypt B1
   
• Carey, MacDonald    b. March 15, 1913  d. March 21, 1994
  Actor. Popular in both motion pictures and television. Famous for his role as Dr. Tom Horton on daytime soap opera "Days of our Lives". Macdonald Carey played the Horton family patriarch from the show's premiere episode in 1965 until his untimely death in 1994. His voice can still be heard in the opening credits speaking the imfamous line "These are the days of our lives." (Bio by: Hennessy_Bridge)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Grotto, 19, L196
   
• Castle, Nick    b. March 21, 1910  d. August 16, 1968
  Actor, Songwriter, Dancer and Choreographer. He was the dance director or choreographer on such famous movies as "Swanee River" (1939), "Buck Privates" (with Abbott and Costello - 1941), "Royal Wedding" (1951), "Skirts Ahoy" (1952), "The Seven Little Foys" (1955), and over eighty other films. Born Nicholas Castle in Brooklyn, New York, he worked in his early years as a dance director in vaudeville, and moved to Hollywood in 1935, where he worked as a choreographer at Twentieth Century Fox. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: St. Ann Section, 2, L187
   
• Catlett, Walter    b. February 4, 1889  d. October 14, 1960
  Actor. He started out as a performer on the vaudeville stage in 1906, made his screen debut in "Second Youth" (1924) and went on to appear in over a 140 films. Some of his most memorable film performances were in "The Front Page" (1931), "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), "Married to Hollywood" (1939), the voice role of J.P. Worthingyon Foulfellow in the original Walt Disney "Pinocchio" (1940) and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942). He also appeared on the TV series "Climax"...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section S Tier 49 grave 17
   
• Cavanaugh, Hobart    b. September 22, 1886  d. April 25, 1950
  Actor. Born in Virginia City, Nevada, he made his film debut in "San Francisco Nights" (1928) and established himself as a popular supporting actor. His credits included "Cover the Waterfront" (1933), "Mary Stevens M.D." (1933), "Captain Blood" (1935), "Wife vs. Secretary" (1936) and "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949). By the end of his life he had appeared in more than 180 films. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section G, Lot 122, Grave 6
   
• Chapman, Marguerite    b. March 9, 1918  d. August 31, 1999
  Actress. She played tough but alluring leading ladies in B and occasional A films of the 1940s, including "Spy Smasher" (1942), "Murder in Times Square" (1943), "Destroyer" (1943), "Appointment in Berlin" (1943), "The Walls Came Tumbling Down" (1946), "Relentless" (1948), and "The Green Promise" (1949). Chapman was born in Chatham, New York, and made her film debut in 1940. Much of her career was spent at Columbia Pictures. Despite great looks and talent, Chapman never achieved stardom...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Mausoleum, Block 28, Crypt 3
   
• Clark, David Worth    b. April 2, 1902  d. June 19, 1955
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Idaho in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1935 to 1939. Also served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1939 to 1945. (Bio by: K)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section L "Immaculate Heart", Grave 6
   
• Clifford, Ruth    b. February 17, 1900  d. November 30, 1998
  Actress. During her 50-year Hollywood career she went from teenage ingenues to leading ladies to character parts. She never became a star but is a familiar face in over 100 movies, including six directed by John Ford. Perhaps Clifford's greatest role was as Ann Rutledge in "The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1924). Among her other films are "The Invisible Ray" (1920), "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925), "The Sign of the Cross" (1932), "Dante's Inferno" (1935), "How Green Was My Valley" (...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section M, Lot 642
  GPS coordinates: 33.9924889, -118.3853989 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Cody, Bill    b. January 5, 1891  d. January 24, 1948
  Actor. He was a B western cowboy star of silents and early talkies. Cody's diminutive stature gave him a likable, underdog quality, and he was pitted against much bigger bad guys in such oaters as "Cold Nerve" (1925), "King of the Saddle" (1926), "Born to Battle" (1927), "Slim Fingers" (1929), "The Montana Kid" (1931), "Frontier Days" (1934), and "The Texas Rambler" (1935). William Joseph Cody was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He entered films as a stuntman in 1922 after some...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section A, Lot 85, Grave 12 [Unmarked]
   
• Colvig, Pinto (Vance DeBar)    b. September 11, 1892  d. October 3, 1967
  Vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging. He was born September 11, 1892 in Jacksonville, Oregon, USA, and died of lung cancer on October 3, 1967 in Woodland Hills, California. Colvig is probably best known as the voice of Disney's Goofy and the original Bozo the Clown, a part he played for a full decade beginning in 1946. Colvig worked for not only the Disney studio, but the...[Read More]
  Cause of death: Lung cancer
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
   
• Connelly, Joe    b. August 22, 1917  d. February 13, 2003
  Hollywood film and television producer, director and writer. Connelly worked on the films "Leave It To Beaver" (1997), "Major Payne" (1995), "Still The Beaver" (1983), "Change Of Habit" (1969), "Munster, Go Home" (1966), and "The Private War Of Major Benson" (1955). He also worked on the television shows, "Pistols 'n' Petticoats" (1966-1967), "The Munsters" (1964-1966), "Calvin And The Colonel" (1961-1962), "Ichabod And Me" (1961), and "Bringing Up Buddy" (1960-1961). Connelly is best remem...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
   
• Coogan, Jackie (John Leslie)    b. October 26, 1914  d. March 1, 1984
  Silent Movie, Screen, Stage and Television Actor. Child star Jackie Coogan was born John Leslie Coogan Jr. on October 26th, 1914, in Los Angeles, California, to a show business family where his father, John H. Coogan, was a dancer and his mother, Lillian Dolliver, had been a child star on the stage. Shortly after Jackie's birth the Coogans moved to New York and it was there that Jackie made his first real appearance in the theater, at the age of four. At age five he began touring with his...[Read More] (Bio by: Debbie)
  Cause of death: Heart ailment
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: F, T56, 47
   

Records 1 to 20

Records 21 to 40 (of 282 total matches)

Records 41 to 60