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Aaronson, Irving b. February 7, 1895 d. May 10, 1963
Jazz Musician. A Big-Band leader of the 1920s and 1930s, he performed as "Irving Aaronson and the Commanders." His popular recordings include "I'll Get By," Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave," "All by Ourselves in the Moonlight," "Don't Look at Me That Way," and "Hi-Ho the Merrio." He worked as a musical supervisor for the MGM motion picture studios after his band career had ended. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Everlasting Peace, Block 12, Plot 373, Grave 2
Abbott, Gypsy b. January 31, 1896 d. July 25, 1952
Actress. She appeared in motion pictures during the "Silent Screen Era", and was married for a time to film director Henry King. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Grotto Section
Acker, Jean b. October 23, 1892 d. August 16, 1978
Actress. Despite having a undistinguished motion picture career, she gained lasting notoriety as the first wife of film icon Rudolph Valentino. Born on a farm near Trenton, New Jersey, she made her film debut in 1913. An expert horsewoman, she performed her own stunts in several westerns and serials but never progressed beyond secondary roles. In 1918 she went to Hollywood as a protégé of actress [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section N, Plot 542
Albertson, Frank b. February 2, 1909 d. February 29, 1964
Actor. He had an acting career that spanned from the 1920s to the 1960 in the theater, motion pictures and television. His best known roles were as 'Tom Cassidy' in the Alfred Hitchcock horror thriller "Psycho" in 1961, and as 'Sam Wainwright' in the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946).
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section P, Lot 284, Grave 4
Allen, Corey b. June 29, 1934 d. June 27, 2010
Actor, Director. He is best remembered for his role as Buzz Gunderson in the classic 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause", in which he challenged James Dean to a deadly drag race. Born Alan Cohen, he studied Drama at UCLA and began his acting career in college stage productions, before making his screen debut in "A Time Out of War" (1954). He maintained a busy performing career through the 1960s, appearing in such TV programs...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Allgood, Sara b. October 15, 1879 d. September 13, 1950
Actress. Sara was born in Dublin, Ireland. She joined the Fays' Irish National Theatre Society in 1903. In 1904 she performed in "Riders to the Sea"; later that year she began her acting career at the Abbey Theatre. In 1917, Sara lost her husband, Henson and their newborn daughter during the influenza outbreak. She then went on to create the original Juno Boyle in "Juno and the Paycock" in 1924. In 1941 she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Beth Morgan...[Read More] (Bio by: Babe)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 249, Grave 6
Allman, Sheldon b. June 8, 1924 d. January 22, 2002
Composer, Voice Actor. He was the singing voice of "Mister Ed", the talking horse of television fame, and was the composer of numerous cartoon theme songs, the most famous of which was "George of the Jungle". (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Canaan Urn Garden Block 1 Plot 2 Grave 27
Allyn, Alice b. October 13, 1929 d. February 11, 1976
Actress. Born in Canada, she was most noted for the role of Alice on the television series "Baretta", 1975 to 1978. For feature films, she appeared in "The Millionaire" (1958), "Operation Dames" (1959) and "All Fall Down" (1962). (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Court of Dedication Blk 6 Plot 95 Space 4-B
Ames, Ramsay (Phillips) b. March 30, 1919 d. March 20, 1998
Actress. Born Phillips Ames, she was a dancer and a model at the Eastman Kodak-sponsored fashion show at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Invited to a screen test at Columbia Studios California, she made her film debut in "Two Senoritas from Chicago" (1943). She became a very popular B-movie leading lady appearing in films to include "Crazy House" (1943), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), "Follow the Boys" (1944), "The Black Widow" (1947), "Alexander the Great" (1956) and "The Running Man" (1963). She...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section K, Lot N, Grave 7
Andrews, Tod b. November 10, 1914 d. November 7, 1972
Actor. Raised in California, he began his career at the Pasadena Playhouse in the early 1940s, when he was signed to a Warner Brothers Studios. He made his big screen debut in "Murder in the Big House" (1942), followed by "Heaven Can Wait" (1943), "In Harm's Way" (1965), "Hang 'Em High" (1968), "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970) and "The Presidents Plane Is Missing", his final film which was released in 1973. For television, his credits included "The Gray Ghost" and "The Andy Griffith Show"...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Archerd, Army (Armand) b. January 13, 1922 d. September 8, 2009
Journalist. Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, he was a writer for the trade magazine Daily Variety for 52 years. A graduate of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1941, he began his career as a mailroom attendant at Paramount Pictures before moving to the Associated Press in October 1945 as an entertainment reporter. He joined the editorial staff of Daily Variety in 1953 where he reported on the news of Hollywood until September 2005. He was the official greeter at the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Acacia Gardens, Upper Level, Wall QQ, Niche 506
Arlen (Van Mattimore), Richard (Cornelius) b. September 1, 1898 d. March 28, 1976
Actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore, in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. While working as a motorcycle messenger for a film laboratory, he was injured in an accident at Paramount Studios in the early 1920s. When he later went to the studio to thank them for their prompt medical care, studio officials him offered him a chance in pictures. It is believed they were impressed with his good looks. Arlen started his career...[Read More] (Bio by: Hallie Garrison)
Cause of death: Emphysema
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: T-T57-130
Armetta, Henry b. July 4, 1888 d. October 21, 1945
Actor. At the age of 14, he stowed away on a boat to America, performed menial tasks to get by and eventually got a part in a chorus for a New York City stage show. In 1920, he moved to Hollywood and easily found work performing as stereotypical Italian in silent films. He went on to appear in over 152 films, being in 24 features in 1934 alone. His many credits included "Madame X" (1929), "The Devils Brother" (1933), "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1936), "Once Upon a Time" (1944) and "Anchors Aweigh"...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 295
Astor, Mary b. May 3, 1906 d. September 25, 1987
Actress. She appeared in more than 100 films, but is best known for co-starring in the film "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) with Humphrey Bogart. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "The Great Lie." She was the author of five novels and an autobiography.
Cause of death: Heart attack
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: N-L523-5. Facing the mausoleum, go 10 rows down the slope to your right. The grave is about 6 feet to the right of the large wide tree.
Bambury, John Thomas b. July 10, 1891 d. November 4, 1960
Actor. Born in Pennsylvania, he was a dwarf best remembered for his role as a Munchkin in the film, "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). A popular character performer, his other credits included "The Plot Thickens" (1936), "The Terror of Tiny Town" (1938), "Maisie Was a Lady" (1941), Lady in the Dark" (1944) "Superman and the Mole Men (1951) and "The Adventures of Superman" TV series. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Bank, Frank b. April 12, 1942 d. April 13, 2013
Actor. He will be fondly remembered for playing Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford in the TV series "Leave It To Beaver" (1958 to 1963). Born and raised in Los Angeles, he got his start in the industry at the age of ten, when he was cast in the part of Will Rogers as a child in the picture "The Story of Will Rogers" (1952). This was followed with appearances in the television programs "The Ford Television Theatre" and "Father Knows Best" among other series. After "Leave It to Beaver" ended its run in...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Banks, Joan b. October 30, 1918 d. January 18, 1998
Actress. Born in Petersburg, West Virginia, she became a regular on the 1930s radio series "Gangbusters", where she met and married actor Frank Lovejoy. For feature films, she appeared in dramas with her husband in "Cry Danger" (1951) and "Washington Story" (1952). She became better known as a supporting actor on various television series such as "I Love Lucy", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Roughriders", "Perry Mason" and "Hazel". After her work in television subsided, she appeared in 33...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Baron (Beresofsky), Sandy (Sanford) Irving b. May 5, 1937 d. January 21, 2001
Actor, Comedian. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he pursued a career as a standup comedian, performing in the resort hotels of the Catskill Mountains in New York. He eventually landed several secondary roles in Broadway plays, including a part opposite Henry Fonda in the 1966 play "Generation. In the mid 1960s he released a comedy album titled "The Race! Race!" and also appeared as himself on the political satire television series "That Was The Week That Was". In 1966 he co-starred in...[Read More] (Bio by: Decal)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Courts of the Book, Jacob, Inner Court Wall, Wall I, Crypt 7004
Barry, Gene b. June 14, 1919 d. December 9, 2009
Actor. Born Eugene Klass to parents of Russian-Jewish ancestry, he acted in drama productions and studied music while attending New Utrecht High School. He made his Broadway debut in the 1942 musical "The New Moon", and appeared in several more stage productions throughout the decade which include "Rosalinda" (1942 to 1944), "The Merry Widow' (1943 to 1944) and "Catherine Was Great" (1944 to 1945). During the 1950s he began to appear regularly in motion pictures and television, scoring a...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Canaan Garden Mausoleum, Crypt H390A
Benny (Kubelsky), Jack (Benjamin) b. February 14, 1894 d. December 26, 1974
Actor, Producer, Comedian. He is best remembered for his comically inept violin playing (he was actually a very good violin player), his carefully constructed image as a penny-pincher, and for never being older than 39. His most famous joke was as a man confronted by a robber who demands "Your money or your life!" to which Jack pauses for an extremely long silence, then replies "I'm thinking it over!" Born Benjamin Kubelsky in Chicago, Illinois, he was raised in Waukegan, Illinois, (the Jack...[Read More]
Cause of death: Cancer
Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Hall of Graciousness

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