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Posted: July 2026

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Alfred Ernest Christie

Al Christie

Producer

1881-1951

1910s through the 1940s

He produced almost 800 films!

69 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Gaetano Antonio Gaudio

Tony Gaudio

Cinematographer

1883-1951

1910s through the 1940s

He did 150 Films!
In 1937 he won the Best Cinematography Oscar for Anthony Adverse!

67 Years Old

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Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's Second Wife

1895-1951

56 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Michael Simeon Vizarov

Michael Visaroff

Actor

1892-1951

1920s through to the 1950s

He was in over 100 Films!

58 Years Old
Pneumonia

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Hattie McDaniel

Actress

1893-1952

1930s and 1940s

She was in almost 100 films and TV show!
She was Mammy in Gone with the Wind!
She had her own radio and TV series!

57 Years Old
Breast Cancer

Memorial only she is burried elsewhere

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Oscar Linkenhelt

Elmo Lincoln

Actor

1889-1952

1910s into the 1950s

He was in over 80 Movies and TV Shows!
He was the first Tarzan!

63 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery George S. Barnes

George Barnes

Cinematographer

1892-1953

1918 through to the 1950s

He worked on almost 150 films!
He won an Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Oscar for Rebecca in 1941!

60 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Julius Otto Mandl

Joe May

German Director / Producer

1880-1954

1910s through the 1940s

He did almost a hundred Films!
He did a movie in 1937 (Confession) where he filmed it as an exact copy of another movie Mazurka where each scene was timed and each cut and dissolve matched!

73 Years Old

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Vera Sisson

Silent Film Actress

1891-1954

1910s and 1920s

She was in 80 Films!

63 Years Old
Suicide by Sleeping Pills

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Charles H.V. Christie

Charles Christie

Producer

1880-1955

1930s

Started own motion picture studio with brother Al but it got closed down in during the Great Depression. He and his brother went into real estate!

75 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery William Churchill De Mille

William C. de Mille

Director / Writer

1878-1955

1910s through 1930s

He did over 50 films!
Cecil B. DeMille was his younger brother!
He was the second president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!

76 Years Old

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Victor Young

Composer

1899-1956

1930s through the 1960s

He did over 350 Movies and TV Shows!
In 1957 he won the Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days!
He was nominated for over 20 Academy Awards!
He played the Violin!
He was Victor Young and His Orchestra!

55 Years Old
Stroke

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Composer

1897-1957

1930s through the 1950s

In 1939 he won an Oscar for Best Music, Oringal Score for The Adventures of Robin Hood!

60 Years Old
Stroke

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Norma Marie Talmadge

Norma Talmadge

Silent Film Actress / Producer

1894-1957

1910s and 1920

She was in over 150 Films!
She had actress Sisters too! (Constance and Natalie).
In 1927 she accidentally stepped in wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater!
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63 Years Old
Stroke

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Monta Bell

Producer / Director / Writer

1891-1958

1920s through the 1940s

He was involved in about 25 Films!

66 Years Old

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Harry Cohn

Producer

1891-1958

1910s through the 1930s

He worked on over 200 films!

66 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Jesse Louis Lasky

Jesse L. Lasky

Producer / Presenter

1880-1958

1914 through the 1940s

He was involved in over 500 Films!
He and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldwyn along with Cecil B. DeMille founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company which would later be known as Paramount!
The barn they used (Lasky-DeMille Barn) is now the Hollywood Heritage Museum!
He was one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!

77 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Tyrone Edmund Power III

Tyrone Power

Actor

1914-1958

1930s through the 1950s

He was in over 50 films spanning 3 decades!
He was one of the leading stars of the 1930s!
He became a Marine Corps transport pilot in World War II!

44 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Estelle Taylor

The Delaware Delilah

1894-1958

1920s through the 1930s

She played Miriam the Sister of Moses in The Ten Commandments!

63 Years Old
Cancer

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Adrian

Costume Designer

1903-1959

1920s through the 1950s

He worked on over 250 Movies and TV Shows!
He did the Wizard of Oz and even designed Dorothy's red ruby slippers!

56 Years Old
Heart Attack

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E. Carl Morgan Bigsby

Atlas Rocket Grave

1898-1959

He had nothing to do with rockets; he ran a pirinting business!

60 Years Old

With his wife Constance Winifred Wood

RETIRED BY GOD
THE ATLAS, PIONEER IN SPACE, HERE SYMBOLIZES THE LIFETIME ACTIVITIES OF CARL MORGAN BIGSBY A RECOGNIZED LEADER IN MANY PHASES OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS HE, TOO, WAS A PIONEER
THE ATLAS, AS SHOWN HERE IS TO EXACT SCALE OF THE ORIGINAL MISSILE
THE PIONEER ATLAS
(INTO ORBIT WITH 122 - POUND PAY LOAD, DECEMBER 18, 1958)

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Irving Cummings

Actor / Director

1888-1959

1909 through the 1930s

He acted and Directed in 150 Movies and Shorts!
He directed In Old Arizona where Warner Baxter won the 1930 Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar for playing The Cisco Kid!

70 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Cecil Blount DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Director

1881-1959

1910s through the 1950s

He directed almost 100 movies!

77 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Carl Dean Switzer

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

Child Actor

1927-1959

1930s through the 1950s

He was Alfalfa from The Little Rascals Our Gang in the 1930s!

31 Years Old
Gunshot

Later in life he became a hunting dog trainer. At 31 years old he was in an argument about reward money for a found hunting dog and got shot and killed!

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Edmund John Kellaway

Edmund Gwenn

Actor

1877-1959

1930s, 1940s, 1950s

He was in almost 100 Films and TV Shows!
In 1947 he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor when he played Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street!

81 Years Old
Stroke