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Posted: July 2026

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Joseph Ira Ira Dassin

Joe Dassin

Musician

1938-1980

1960s and 1970s

He was a big pop singer in France!

41 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Mia May

Germany Silent Film Actress

1884-1980

1910s through the 1920s

She was in almost 50 Shorts and Films!

95 Years Old

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Charles Toberman

Hollywood Real Estate

1880-1981

He built about 30 major buildings and a handful of residential subdivisions. The El Capitan Theatre, Egyptian Theatre, Graumann's Chinese Theater, the Roosevelt Hotel...

101 Years Old

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Alberto Guglielmi di Valentina

Alberto Valentino

Actor

1892-1981

1920s and 1930s

Rudolph Valentino's older brother!
He was in a few silent films!

89 Years Old

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Harvey Henderson Wilcox

Land Owner

1832-1981

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!

59 Years Old

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Arthur Edward Pepper Jr.

Art Pepper

West Coast Jazz Musician

1925-1982

1950s through the 1980s

He was one of the top alto saxophonists!

56 Years Old
Stroke

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Eleanor Torrey Powell

Eleanor Powell

Actress

1912-1982

1930s and 1940s

She was the worlds greatest tap dancer in the 1930s!

69 Years Old
Ovarian Cancer

ON EAT LIFE:
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Joan Ann Hackett

Joan Hackett

Actress

1934-1983

1960s through the 1980s

She was in over 50 Movies and TV Shows!
She was on the cover of Harper's Junior Bazaar in 1952!

49 Years Old
Ovarian Cancer

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Bronislaw Kaper

Bronislau Kaper

Composer

1902-1983

1930s through the 1960s

He has 50 music credits!
In 1954 he won the Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for Lill!

81 Years Old
Cancer

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Ruth Sinclair Cummings

Ruth Cummings

Writer / Actress

1894-1984

1920s and 1930s

She did about 30 Films!

90 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Laura Augusta Gainor

Janet Gaynor

Actress

1906-1984

1920s and 1930s

She was in over 30 Movies and TV Shows starting in the 1920s!
She won the very first Best Actress Oscar!

77 Years Old
Car Accident

Hit by Drunk Driver while riding in a taxi

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Bruce Humberstone

Director

1901-1984

1920s through the 1960s

He directed over 50 Movies and TV Shows!
He was one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America!

82 Years Old
Pneumonia

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Nelson Smock Riddle Jr.

Nelson Riddle

Composer

1921-1985

1950s through 1980s

He worked with some big names like Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra!

64 Years Old
Hepatitis

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Samuel Joachim

Jimmy Ritz

Actor

1904-1985

Comedian 1930s and 1940s

He acted in about 20 films with the Ritz Brothers!

81 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Jules White

Producer / Director

1900-1985

1920s through the 1970s

He was involved in almost 400 Movies and TV Shows!
He was the Director of the Three Stoooges!
They called him the Fourth Stooge!

84 Years Old
Alzheimer's

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Harry Ritz

Comedian

1907-1986

1930s through the 1970s

The youngest of the three Ritz Brothers!

78 Years Old

ON EAT LIFE:
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Virginia Flugrath

Viola Dana

Silent Film Actress

1897-1987

1910s through the 1930s

She was in over 100 Films!
She was in a lot of Buster Keaton films!

90 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Woodrow Charles Herman

Woody Herman

Bandleader

1913-1987

1940s

He played the clarinet and was a composer!

74 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery John Marcellus Huston

John Huston

Actor / Director / Writer

1906-1987

1930s through the 1980s

He directed some big ones: The African Queen, Key Largo, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon and a whole bunch more!

81 Years Old
Emphysema

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Arthur William Silverlake

Arthur Lake

Actor

1905-1987

1920s through the 1950s

He has 165 movie and TV credits!
He was Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie TV Series!

81 Years Old
Heart Attack

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Veree Teasdale

Verree Teasdale

Actress

1903-1987

1930s

82 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Carroll Burch Righter

Carroll Righter

Astrologer

1900-1988

The Gregarious Aquarius

88 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Harold G. Rosson

Harold Rosson

Cinematographer

1895-1988

1915 through the 1960s

He worked on over 150 Movies and TV Shows!
He did The Wizard of Oz!
He filmed the burning of Atlanta part of Gone with the Wind!

93 Years Old

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Melvin Jerome Blank

Mel Blanc

The Man of Thousand Voices

1908-1989

1930s to the 1980s

Voice Actor!
He did over 1200 Movies and TV Shows!
He did the voices for every Warner Brothers cartoon character and a bunch of Hanna-Babrera Characters!
- Barney Rubble
- Bugs Bunny
- Daffy Duck
- Elmer Fudd
- Foghorn Leghorn
- Marvin the Martian
- Pepe la Pew
- Porky Pig
- Sam the Sheepdog
- Speedy Gonzales
- Sylvester the Cat
- Taz the Tazmanian Devil
- Tweety Bird
- Wally Gator
- Wile E. Coyote
- The Roadrunner
- Yosemite Sam