Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

List

A

• Milton Ager, musician, composer
• Eve Arden, actress, played Our Miss Brooks
• Hy Averback, director
• Lew Ayres, actor

B

• Jim Backus, actor, Mr. Howell on TV's Gilligan's Island
• Richard Basehart, actor, Admiral Nelson on TV's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• Bobbi Brat, lead singer of Gothic rock band Red Scare
• Fanny Brice, comedienne
• Les Brown, bandleader

C

• Sebastian Cabot, actor, played Mr. French on TV's Family Affair
• Sammy Cahn, songwriter
• Truman Capote, actor, author, wrote "In Cold Blood"
• John Cassavetes, actor, screenwriter, director, producer
• Ray Conniff, musician
• Richard Conte, actor
• Bob Crane, actor, played Hogan on TV's Hogan's Heroes, murder victim

D

• Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, actor
• Philip Dorn, actor
• Eric Douglas, actor; son of Kirk Douglas
• Dominique Dunne, actress Poltergeist; daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, brother of actor-director Griffin Dunne
• Ariel Durant historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature
• Will Durant historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature

E

F

G

• Eva Gabor, actress, was on TV's Green Acres

H

• Armand Hammer, oil tycoon and art collector
• Jonathan Harris, actor, portrayed the villainous Dr. Zachary Smith in the 1960's TV Series, "Lost In Space".
• Hugh Hefner, "In waiting" - He purchased the crypt beside the one of Marilyn Monroe, his first "Playboy" centerfold.
• James Wong Howe, cinematographer

I

J

• Louis Henry Jourdan, son of French actor Louis Jourdan, died from a drug overdose
• Janis Joplin, singer. She was cremated here and her ashes were later scattered in the Pacific Ocean

K

• Louis Kaufman, violinist
• Brian Keith, actor. Buried with his daughter, Daisy. Both committed suicide.
• Stan Kenton, bandleader

L

• Burt Lancaster, actor
• Peter Lawford, actor, was cremated and ashes originally buried at Westwood. His ashes were later removed and scattered in the Pacific.
• Peggy Lee, singer
• Jack Lemmon, actor
• Oscar Levant, actor, pianist

M

• Dean Martin, actor, singer
• Walter Matthau, actor
• Marilyn Monroe, actress

N

• Lloyd Nolan, actor

O

• Carroll O'Connor, actor, played Archie Bunker on TV's All In The Family
• Heather O'Rourke, actress, the little girl in the movie Poltergeist
• Roy Orbison, legendary singer, Rock and Roll pioneer. Grave unmarked

P

• Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist

Q

R

• Donna Reed, actress, played Mary in the movie It's A Wonderful Life
• Buddy Rich, drummer
• Minnie Riperton, singer

S

• Franklin Schaffner, film director
• George C. Scott, actor, won the Oscar for the title role in Patton Grave unmarked
• Robert Stack, actor, The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries
• Dorothy Stratten, actress, Playboy Playmate, (murdered)
• Jennifer Syme, actress, (buried with her daughter by Keanu Reeves)

T

• Mel Torm, singer

U

V

W

• Ray Walston, actor
• Harry Warren, songwriter
• Cornel Wilde, actor
• Billy Wilder, movie director
• Carl Wilson, singer - The Beach Boys
• Natalie Wood, actress

X

Y

Z

• Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox studios
• Frank Zappa, musician

See also

• List of United States cemeteries
• List of famous cemeteries (non-US)

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