Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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Renee Adoree
Daeida Wilcox Beveridge
Hannah Chaplin
William Andrews Clark, Jr.
Cornelius Cole
Alan Crosland
Karl Dane
Andreas Dippel
Douglas Fairbanks
John Truman Gower
Griffith Jenkins Griffith
Jean C. Havez
David Horsley
Florence Lawrence
Barbara La Marr
June Mathis
Harrison Gray Otis
Virginia Rappe
Theodore Roberts
Tom Santschi
Rudolph Schildkraut
Ford Sterling
William Desmond Taylor
Rudolph Valentino
Henry B. Walthall
Samuel H. Watson
Hobart J. Whitley
Louis Wolheim
Frank E. Woods
Daeida Wilcox Beveridge
Hannah Chaplin
William Andrews Clark, Jr.
Cornelius Cole
Alan Crosland
Karl Dane
Andreas Dippel
Douglas Fairbanks
John Truman Gower
Griffith Jenkins Griffith
Jean C. Havez
David Horsley
Florence Lawrence
Barbara La Marr
June Mathis
Harrison Gray Otis
Virginia Rappe
Theodore Roberts
Tom Santschi
Rudolph Schildkraut
Ford Sterling
William Desmond Taylor
Rudolph Valentino
Henry B. Walthall
Samuel H. Watson
Hobart J. Whitley
Louis Wolheim
Frank E. Woods
Posted: July 2026
John Truman Gower
Farmer
1820-1880
- Gower Street is named after him!
- He owned the land Hollywood Forever Cemetery is on!
- Also the land where Columbia, Paramount, and RKO are!
- His farm went from Sunset Blvd to Melrose, and from Gower to Tamarind!
59 Years Old
- With his wife Mary Croswell
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.089313,-118.318298]
Daeida Wilcox Beveridge
Land Owner
1861-1914
- In 1887 Harvey Henderson Wilcox and his wife Daeida Wilcox Beveridge bought 120 acres of land in the Cahuenga valley and she named the fig orchard Hollywood!
53 Years Old
- Above her first husband Harvey Henderson Wilcox
AND INFANT SON
Harrison Gray Otis
Los Angeles Times
1837-1917
- He owned the LA Times from 1886 through the first World War!
80 Years Old
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[google.com/maps/ ... 34.0889,-118.3188]
Griffith Jenkins Griffith
Millionaire
1850-1919
- He donated 3000 acres of his land to the Los Angeles to make Griffith Park!
- The Griffith Observatory, the Greek Theatre, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the Autry Museum of the American West are all from him too!
- He made his fortune by being a journalist covering the mining industry out West and using insider information to invest in the newly discovered mines. Then he purchased lots of land with that money and then Los Angeles area started growing like crazy!
69 Years Old
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[google.com/maps/ ... 34.0900,-118.3175]
Virginia Rappe
Actress
1895-1921
1910s and 1920s
- She was in a dozen Films. She was known as the Best Dressed Girl in Pictures!
26 Years Old
Murder?
- She died after attending a party with Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle in 1921. Arbuckle was acquitted of all charges but it was a huge scandal. She lived with her fiance director Henry Lehrman at the time. It was Prohibition where alcohol was banned but they were all drinking heavy at the party, rooms 1219, 1220, and 1221 at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Her and Arbuckle went into a room alone and then Arbluckle left the the room she stayed lying in the bed moaning. They rushed her to the hospital and she went into a coma and died. Arbuckle was blamed for rape!
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/virginia-rappe.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.089371,-118.316588]
William Desmond Taylor
Director / Actor
1872-1922
1910s and 1920s
- He worked on over 50 films!
- He was president of the Motion Picture Directors Association
49 Years Old
Shot in the Back
- Who done it?
- Mable Normand was the last one to see him alive.
- Henry Peavey the valet found his body.
- Edward Sands was the prior valet with a history of crimes.
- Charles Eyton first on the scene with Paramount Pictures cleaned up the crime scene before the cops got there.
- Teenage actress Mary Miles Minter had a crush on him and had the same type of gun.
- Charlotte Shelby was Minter's mother that didn't like Taylor and could have caught them in the act?
- Washed up actress Margaret Gibson who was arrested for prostitution and drug dealing and confessed to a priest that she did it?
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/william-desmond-taylor.php]
Cornelius Cole
US Senator
1822-1924
102 Years Old
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.089359,-118.318812]
Samuel H. Watson
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
1837-1924
- Owner
86 Years Old
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.088136,-118.319052]
Jean C. Havez
Screenwriter
1872-1925
1910s and 1920s
- He wrote for Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd!
- He wrote the scene in Safety Last where Harold Lloyd hangs from the skyscaper clockface!
52 Years Old
Heart Attack
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/jean-c-havez.php]
Barbara La Marr
Silent Film Star
1896-1926
1920s
- She was in almost 30 films!
29 Years Old
Tuberculosis
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/barbara-lamarr.php]
Rudolph Valentino
Silent Film Star
1895-1926
1910s through the 1920s
- He was in about 40 Silent FIlms!
- He was in The Sheik!
- He was Italian and didn't speak English!
- He was known as The Latin Lover!
31 Years Old
Ulcer
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/rudolph-valentino.php]
June Mathis
Screenwriter
1887-1927
1915 through the 1920s
- She was a writer for over a hundred films!
- She wrote some of Rudolph Valentino's best movies!
- She was one of the most powerful women in Hollywood!
- She was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!
40 Years Old
Heart Attack
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/june-mathis.php]
Hannah Chaplin
Vaudeville Star
1886-1928
- She was Charlie Chaplin's mother!
62 Years Old
Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Hill Chaplin
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.089079,-118.316464]
Theodore Roberts
Silent Film Actor
1861-1928
1910s and 1920s
- He was in over 100 Films!
- He was known as The Grand Duke of Hollywood!
- He was in a lot of Cecil B. DeMille films!
- He played Moses in The Ten Commandments!
67 Years Old
Kidneys
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/theodore-roberts.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.088837,-118.319050]
Rudolph Schildkraut
Silent Film Actor
1862-1930
1910s through the 1920s
- He was in about 25 Films!
68 Years Old
Heart Attack
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/rudolph-schildkraut.php]
Tom Santschi
Silent Film Actor / Director
1880-1931
1910s and 1920s
- He was in over 300 Films!
50 Years Old
Heart Attack
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/tom-santschi.php]
Hobart J. Whitley
The Father of Hollywood
1847-1931
- He was real estate guy that developed about 500 acres of open fields in Hollywood. He did the Hollywood blvd and Hightland area. From about La Brea to Whitley Avenue going north.
- Whitney Avenue is named after him!
83 Years Old
Hobart Johnstone Whitley
The Father of Hollywood
Louis Wolheim
Actor
1880-1931
1910s through 1930s
- He was in over 50 Movies!
- He was German Corporal 'Kat' Katczinsky in All Quiet on the Western Front!
50 Years Old
Stomach Cancer
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/louis-wolheim.php]
Andreas Dippel
Opera Singer
1866-1932
1890s through the 1920s
65 Years Old
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/andreas-dippel.php]
Renee Adoree
Silent Film Actress
1898-1933
1920s
- She was in almost 50 Films!
35 Years Old
Tuberculosis
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/renee-adoree.php]
David Horsley
Silent Film Producer
1873-1933
1908 to 1926
- He made almost 800 films!
59 Years Old
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/david-horsley.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.089642,-118.319301]
William Andrews Clark, Jr.
Founded Los Angeles Philharmonic
1877-1934
57 Years Old
- ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.089036,-118.316889]
Karl Dane
The Great Dane
1886-1934
1918 through the 1930s
- Silent film star!
- He was from Denmark and had a thick accent and struggled getting parts once movies had sound.
47 Years Old
Suicide by Gun
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/karl-dane.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.088076,-118.319841]
Alan Crosland
Director
1894-1936
1910s through the 1930s
- He was the director of the first talking film the Jazz Singer in 1927!
41 Years Old
Car Accident
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/alan-crosland.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.08808,-118.319537]
Henry B. Walthall
Actor
1878-1936
1908 through the 1930s
- He was in over 300 Films!
58 Years Old
Tuberculosis
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/henry-b-walthall.php]
Florence Lawrence
Actress
1886-1938
1900s through the 1930s
- She was in 300 Movies and TV Shows!
- She started at age 3 in musicals and plays in 1900s and worked into the 1930s!
- She was known as the Biograph Girl from the Biograph Film Company. Then she moved to a different company called Independent Motion Picture Company and became the IMP Girl. They started promoting her name and she became the first actor to be known by name by the public. She was the first movie star!!
52 Years Old
Suicide by Ant Poison and Cough Syrup
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/vips/florence-lawrence.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.090339,-118.316913]
Douglas Fairbanks
The King of Hollywood
1883-1939
1900s through the 1930s
- Silent film star. He was a founding member of United Artists (with Chaplin, Griffith, and Pickford). He hosted the very first Academy Awards!
- He was the first (with Pickford) to do a footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre!
56 Years Old
Heart Attack
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/douglas-fairbanks.php] - ON GOOGLE MAPS:
[https://www.google.com/maps/ ... 34.087969,-118.317249]
Ford Sterling
Actor
1883-1939
1910s through the 1930s
- He was in alost 300 films!
- He was the Cheif of the Keystone Cops!
56 Years Old
Heart Attack
- ON EAT LIFE:
[https://www.eatlife.net/stars/ford-sterling.php]
Frank E. Woods
Screenwriter
1860-1939
1910s through 1920s
- He was involved in almost 100 credits!
- He was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!
79 Years Old
- ON EAT LIFE:
[eatlife.net/vips/frank-e-woods.php]
Celebrity Grave Markers
At Hollywood Forever Cemetery