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Earl Kress

1951–2011 (age 60)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Earl Kress (1951–2011) was an Emmy-winning animation and television writer laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park a...

Ralph Ahn

1926–2022 (age 96)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Ralph Ahn (1926–2022) was an American actor who spent decades in film and television before being interred at Forest L...

Rich Piana

1970–2017 (age 47)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Rich Piana (1970–2017) was an American bodybuilder and social-media personality who was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial...

Joyce K. Reynolds

1952–2015 (age 63)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Joyce K. Reynolds (1952–2015) was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Elizabeth Taylor

1932–2011 (age 79)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) was an iconic British-American actress and humanitarian whose remains were placed at Fore...

Nate Dogg

1969–2011 (age 42)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Nate Dogg (1969–2011) was a Long Beach-born singer-songwriter whose smooth vocals made him a West Coast hip-hop staple...

Ursula Thiess

1924–2010 (age 86)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Hamburg-born actress Ursula Thiess (1924–2010) brought European glamour to Hollywood before being laid to rest at Fore...

Lauren Bacall

1924–2014 (age 90)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), the Bronx-born film and stage actress famed for her smoky voice and instant chemistry with ...

Carrie Fisher

1956–2016 (age 60)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Beverly Hills-born Carrie Fisher (1956–2016) was a beloved actress and writer celebrated internationally for portrayin...

Bobby Womack

1944–2014 (age 70)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Cleveland-born Bobby Womack (1944–2014) was a soul and R&B singer-songwriter whose gritty vocals influenced generation...

Maria Cole

1922–2012 (age 90)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Maria Cole (1922–2012), the Boston-born jazz singer who championed the music scene alongside her husband Nat King Cole...

Jadwiga Barańska

1935–2024 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Jadwiga Barańska (1935–2024), born in Łódź, was a Polish actress noted for her subtle performances in cinema and t...

Shirley M. Hufstedler

1925–2016 (age 91)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Denver-born jurist Shirley M. Hufstedler (1925–2016) served as the first U.S. Secretary of Education after a career on...

James Arness

1923–2011 (age 88)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

James Arness (1923–2011), the Minneapolis-born actor best known for his long-running lead role on Gunsmoke, is buried ...

Buddy Collette

1921–2010 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Los Angeles-born Buddy Collette (1921–2010) was a pioneering jazz multi-instrumentalist and educator laid to rest at F...

George Barris

1925–2015 (age 90)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

George Barris (1925–2015), a Chicago-born photographer famed for capturing Hollywood icons and custom cars, is buried ...

Gene Reynolds

1923–2020 (age 97)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Cleveland-born Gene Reynolds (1923–2020) was an Emmy-winning television producer, writer, and actor whose career spann...

Michu Meszaros

1939–2016 (age 77)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Hungarian-born performer Michu Meszaros (1939–2016) brought giant-hearted charm to roles in film and television as one...

Nancy Reagan

1921–2016 (age 95)

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Manhattan-born Nancy Reagan (1921–2016), an actress turned First Lady of the United States, is interred at the Ronald ...

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

1924–2017 (age 93)

Forest Home Cemetery

Nancy Oestreich Lurie (1924–2017), a Milwaukee-born anthropologist and advocate for Native American rights, is buried ...

William Edwin Self

1921–2010 (age 89)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

William Edwin Self (1921–2010) was an American film and television producer whose career included work on numerous mid...

William Melvin Kelley

1937–2017 (age 80)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017) was an American novelist and professor praised for his groundbreaking explorations o...

Diane Disney Miller

1933–2013 (age 80)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Diane Disney Miller (1933–2013) was an American philanthropist and preservationist who devoted herself to honoring her...

Newton Russell

1927–2013 (age 86)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Newton Russell (1927–2013) was an American politician who represented California in both the state assembly and senate...

Harry Redmond, Jr.

1909–2011 (age 102)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Harry Redmond Jr. (1909–2011) was an American special effects artist whose career spanned decades of Hollywood blockbu...

Jon Bunch

1970–2016 (age 46)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Jon Bunch (1970–2016) was an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the post-hardcore band Sense Fie...

Rose A. George

1946–2010 (age 64)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Rose A. George (1946–2010) was an Okrika-born individual laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald

1926–2013 (age 87)

Forest Home Cemetery

Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (1926–2013) was an American business executive who led major firms and engaged in public servi...

Alphonse Mouzon

1948–2016 (age 68)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Alphonse Mouzon (1948–2016) was an American jazz fusion drummer and composer who helped define the sound of 1970s fusi...

Tyrus Wong

1910–2016 (age 106)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Tyrus Wong (1910–2016) was a Chinese-born American artist whose watercolor concept work shaped Walt Disney’s Bambi a...

Richard Bakalyan

1931–2015 (age 84)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Richard Bakalyan (1931–2015) was an American character actor who appeared in a variety of films and television shows f...

Cliff Emmich

1936–2022 (age 86)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Cliff Emmich (1936–2022) was an American character actor who amassed dozens of film and television credits.

Jean Porter

1922–2018 (age 96)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Jean Porter (1922–2018) was an American film actress remembered for her light comedies and musicals of the 1940s.

Heather North

1945–2017 (age 72)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Heather North (1945–2017) was an American actress best known for voicing Daphne Blake on Scooby-Doo and appearing on t...

Reynaldo Rey

1940–2015 (age 75)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Reynaldo Rey (1940–2015) was an American comedian and character actor who performed across stage and screen for decade...

Al Schmitt

1930–2021 (age 91)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Al Schmitt was a Brooklyn-born recording engineer and producer whose Grammy-winning career in music spanned decades unti...

Harry Carey

1921–2012 (age 91)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Harry Carey was a Santa Clarita-based actor whose long career in film and television earned him lasting recognition befo...

Don Gordon

1926–2017 (age 91)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Don Gordon was a Los Angeles-born actor known for his tough-guy supporting roles in film and television who was buried a...

Jackie Collins

1937–2015 (age 78)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Jackie Collins was a Hampstead-born novelist whose glamorous, bestselling tales of Hollywood fame made her one of the wo...

Ralph Herbert Turner

1919–2014 (age 95)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Ralph Herbert Turner was an Effingham-born sociologist and educator whose academic contributions shaped American sociolo...

Kevin Jarre

1954–2011 (age 57)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Kevin Jarre was a Detroit-born screenwriter celebrated for his cinematic epics who was buried at Westwood Village Memori...

Jerry Douglas

1932–2021 (age 89)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Jerry Douglas was a Chelsea-born film and television director whose work graced many acclaimed projects before he was la...

Stan Freberg

1926–2015 (age 89)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Stan Freberg was a Pasadena-born comedian, satirist, and voice actor whose pioneering work in advertising and entertainm...

Walter Grauman

1922–2015 (age 93)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Walter Grauman was a Milwaukee-born film and television director whose decades of work included series such as The Untou...

Jean Bartel

1923–2011 (age 88)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Jean Bartel was a Los Angeles-born beauty queen who became Miss America in 1943 and remained a public figure until her 2...

Steve Inwood

1947–2025 (age 78)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Steve Inwood was an actor whose performances in film and television led to a career remembered upon his burial at Westwo...

Josette Banzet

1938–2020 (age 82)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Josette Banzet was a French-born actress who worked in American film and television before her 2020 interment at Westwoo...

Anne Buydens

1919–2021 (age 102)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Anne Buydens was a Hanover-born philanthropist and film producer whose longtime partnership with Kirk Douglas complement...

Barbara Orbison

1951–2011 (age 60)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Barbara Orbison was a Bielefeld-born music executive and advocate who stewarded Roy Orbison’s legacy before she was la...

Dee Caruso

1929–2012 (age 83)

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Dee Caruso was a television writer and producer whose comedic work on classic series left a mark before his 2012 burial ...