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Forest Lawn, Glendale.

Emile Hamaty, from Jamaica, acted as everything from a Hindu priest to a Greek tycoon. On stage, he played the Bishop of Carlise in Richard II, and as author Truman Capote in Dark Angels. He also made TV commercials, and died one day after making one for Budweiser beer.


Ralph Parsons was the founder and leader of the Parson Company which built oil and gas facilities, shipyards, power plants, irrigation and water development projects, metal and mineral mines and processing plants, airports, subway and rail lines, sewerage systems, and NASA facilities. In 1961, he founded The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation for charitable contributions.


Kathryn Parsons, as Kathryn Crawford, acted on stage and in 18 film roles between 1929 and 1941 including Safety in Numbers (1930), King of Jazz (1930) and Modern Love (1929). She later was an interior decorator, and her second husband was businessman Ralph M. Parsons.


Martin Garralaga acted in over 250 roles. Movies include Lonely Are the Brave (1962), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and Beauty and the Bandit (1946). TV included The Adventures of Superman, Wagon Train, The High Chaparral, Rawhide, and The Fugitive.

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San Fernando Mission Cem.

William Haade appeared in over 250 films between 1937 and 1957 including Key Largo, and I Won't Play. Frequently credited as "Henchman" in TV shows such as The Lone Ranger, Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, and others. Probably best-remembered as the alcoholic prizefighter managed by Humphrey Bogart who is punched out by Wayne Morris in the finale of 'Kid Galahad' (1937)


Charles Lamont was a director, starting with Educational Pictures' "Juvenile Comedies", then their "Baby Burlesks" featuring 4-year old Shirley Temple. He directed Salome Where She Danced, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, several Abbott and Costello comedies, Ma and Pa Kettle movies, and 19 episodes of TV's "Walt Disney Presents" Annette, and 9 episodes of Zorro.


Tommy Noonan was a comedy film performer, screenwriter and producer. He is best-known as Gus Esmond, Marilyn Monroe's wealthy boyfriend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and as the musician Danny McGuire in A Star Is Born. In the 50's he formed a comedy team with Peter Marshall who later hosted the Hollywood Squares.


Betty Compson began acting in 1915 and made 41 shorts and one feature called Almost a Widow in 1916. In 1920, she began her own company and produced Prisoners of Love in 1921. in 1928, she appeared in Court-Martial as Belle Starr, and in The Barker, a silent movie which contained some talking scenes. Compson was nominated for a best actress oscar for The Barker. She was in The Docks of New York (1928), and The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper. Her last film was Here Comes Trouble (1948). First husband was director James Cruze.

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Santa Barbara.

Fess Parker is most famous for playing Davy Crockett (1955-56) and Daniel Boone (1964-70) on TV, popularizing the fad of coonskin caps. His appearances in movies include Old Yeller, and The Light in the Forest. He later had a 1,500-acre winery, and owned a resort.


Věra Helena Hrubá was a Czech figure skater, placing 17th at the 1936 Olympics, where Hitler asked if she would like to "skate for the swastika." As she later recalled, "I looked him right in the eye, and said that I'd rather skate on the swastika. The Führer was furious." She acted in 26 movies, usually as a foreign women due to her limited English. She married a much older studio head who helped her career (and was sued by shareholders because of it) and left her $10 million. The authors of The Golden Turkey Awards nominated her as "The Worst Actress of All Time," along with Candice Bergen and Mamie Van Doren. They all lost to Raquel Welch.


Scott Bone was the third Territorial Governor of Alaska, serving from 1921–1925. He also decided to use dog sleds rather than a plane to transport diphtheria antitoxin 674 miles in the now-famous 1925 Serum Run, from which the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race stems. He was the editor of the Washington Post, founded the Washington Herald and later was the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. When President Warren Harding was in North Nenana, Alaska to drive in the final spike for the completion of the Alaskan railroad on July 15, 1923, Governor Bone positioned that spike.

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Valhalla.

Bud Westmore was a member of the Westmore family of makeup artists. More than 500 credits include Abbott and Costello movies, Ma and Pa Kettle movies, The Life of Riley, Winchester '73, Bedtime for Bonzo, The Glenn Miller Story, Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, All That Heaven Allows, Battle Hymn, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Touch of Evil, Pillow Talk, Inherit the Wind, Spartacus, Flower Drum Song, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Soylent Green.


Clem Bevans was in vaudeville, and was a long-time actor on stage and at age 55 in film, usually playing eccentric, grumpy old men. He was in Young Tom Edison, Sergeant York, Hitchcock's Saboteur, The Yearling, and Harvey.


Jill Banner was an actress, possibly best-known as Virginia, the "spider baby" in the 1964 (released in '68) cult horror-comedy Spider Baby. She also had roles as James Coburn's flower-child friend in The President's Analyst, and in TV's Dragnet. After working in real estate, she returned to acting and had a vague script-working relationship with Marlon Brando before her car-accident death.


Robert Elliott was an actor, and played a detective in the first "100% All-Talking Picture", Lights of New York (1928). Other credits in minor roles include The Star Witness (1931), The Maltese Falcon (1931), Circumstantial Evidence (1935), The Roaring Twenties (1939), Made for Each Other (1939), Gone With the Wind (as a Yankee officer, 1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), and The Devil's Playground (1946).

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Westminster.

Bradley Nowell was lead singer and guitarist of the ska punk band Sublime. Sublime gained a reputation for rowdy behavior in neighborhood shows, and eventually became one of the most popular bands in Southern California. Nowell died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime's major-label debut. (Cenotaph)


Graffiti marks the spot.


Neal Fredericks was a cinematographer, most famous for The Blair Witch Project, which was noted and praised by critics for its distinctive cinéma vérité style of camera work. Other credits include Dreamers, Killer Me, The Stonecutter, Erosion, The Burkittsville 7, and Abominable. He was tied into a small plane which crashed in the water. Though everyone else survived, Fredericks drowned.


Loyal Griggs was a cinematographer, starting out at Paramount Pictures in the studio's process department. He eventually became director of photography for three 1951 films - Crosswinds, Passage West, and The Last Outpost. Griggs won an oscar for 1953's Shane. Other films include White Christmas, The Ten Commandments, The Sad Sack, Visit to a Small Planet, and The Greatest Story Ever Told.

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Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland.

John Lee Hooker was a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist with an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, and best-known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966).


Allen Davis was a football coach and executive, specifically the principal owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders from 1972 to 2011. Davis was active in civil rights, refusing to allow the Raiders to play in any city where black and white players had to stay in separate hotels. He was the first owner to hire an African American head coach and a female chief executive, and the second to hire a Latino head coach. He remains the only executive in NFL history to be an assistant coach, head coach, general manager, commissioner and owner. "Just win, baby".


Stephen Stucker is best-known for his comedic roles in The Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane!, and Airplane! II. He was one of the first actors to publicly announce he had AIDS.

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Holy Cross, Culver City.

Margaret Lindsay had supporting roles in Jezebel and Scarlet Street. She co-starred in the Ellery Queen series in the early 1940s. Most notable in The House of the Seven Gables.


Lucille Brown acted on stage then in comedy films before finding a niche in westerns including 1932's Last of the Mohicans, and 1935's Texas Terror starring John Wayne.


Christina Wilson trained as an operatic soprano, sang on the radio and stage shows, and had acting roles, mostly in a large number of comedy shorts including the Three Stooges' Idle Roomers.
J. Donald was a writer and producer, known for The Whistler (1944 and 1954), and Key Witness (1947).

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Westwood.

Ken Annakin was a director and screenwriter, most notable for The Longest Day, and Battle of the Bulge. Other credits include Miranda, The Seekers, Across the Bridge, Swiss Family Robinson, Very Important Person, The Fast Lady, The Biggest Bundle of Them All and Call of the Wild. He was oscar-nominated for his script of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.


Brenda Joyce appeared in over twenty films from 1939 until 1949, best remembered (after Maureen O'Sullivan) as Jane in the Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker. Other credits include Private Nurse, Pillow of Death, Little Giant. and Danger Woman.


Bruce Lister started in film in 1934 with To Be a Lady, then The Third Clue, Boy Meets Girl, The Witness Vanishes, British Intelligence, Pride and Prejudice, The Letter, Above Suspicion, Golden Earrings, The Fool and the Princess, and Tarzan and the Trappers.


Patty Andrews and two sisters were known as The Andrews Sisters, the vocal trio whose popular music became part of the patriotic fabric of WWII America. Hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B), and Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me). The Andrew Sisters sold war bonds, performed with Bing Crosby and with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, made movies and entertained thousands of American troops overseas.

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Ararat, Fresno.

William Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Works include The Time of Your Life, My Name Is Aram. and My Heart's in the Highlands. He won the Pulitzer for Drama in 1940, and an oscar in 1943 for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy. Lucy Saroyan was a photographer and actress, appearing in some of her step-father-to-be Walter Matthau's movies.


Cesar Chavez National Monument, Keene.

Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW).




Evergreen, Alameda.

Allen Clayton Hoskins was a child actor, most famous for portraying the character of Farina in 105 Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931. After Our Gang, Hoskins performed with his sister in vaudeville, and had some minor movie roles. He joined the Army in 1940 seeing action in five major Pacific battles and received a presidential citation. He later worked in social service activities.

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San Fernando Mission cemetery.

Angela Greene acted in Hollywood Canteen, Mildred Pierce, 7 episodes as Tess Trueheart on the Dick Tracy TV series, At War With the Army, Night of the Blood Beast, and Futureworld. She was on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post in 1941 and Yank magazine in 1944, and as the bikini-clad nose-art of the bomber Skipper 2 in WWII. Dated JFK in the early 1940's. She also painted and had several exhibits.


Ernie Orsatti played baseball for the 1925 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bunnies minor league team with a batting average of .347 and 6 home runs. In the pros, he played outfield and first base from 1927-1935 for the St. Louis Cardinals with a lifetime batting average of .306 in 701 games, including the 1928, 1930, 1931 and 1934 World Series. He was hired as assistant property master on Sherlock Jr. (1924) because director Buster Keaton was a big baseball fan and insisted on playing baseball on the sets of all his films.


Ray Heindorf was a songwriter of Some Sunday Morning, Sugarfoot, Hollywood Canteen, I'm in a Jam, Some Sunny Day, Pete Kelly's Blues, and Melancholy Rhapsody. He was the music director at Warner Bros from 1948-65, and returned in 1968 for Finian's Rainbow.


Bob May had 3 uncredited parts in film or TV including as Adolf Hitler on The Time Tunnel. His greatest fame came from his non-speaking role as The Robot on the TV series Lost In Space. (Dick Tufeld provided its voice).

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Forest Lawn, Hollywood.

Haskell Boggs was a cinematographer on several movies including the Jerry Lewis films The Wackiest Ship in the Navy, and Cindefella. He was director of photography on TVs The Rebel, Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven and others.


Michael Ansara was an actor, noted for playing Cochise on the TV series Broken Arrow (1956). He played the Klingon commander Kang on the original Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager (1995). He also played Buck Rogers' evil adversary Kane on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979). He was once married to actress Barbara Eden.


Jeanne Bates was a radio, film and TV actress. She had the lead role, and supplied the signature scream, on the radio mystery series Whodunit. Her film debut in 1943 was in a Boston Blackie mystery, The Chance of a Lifetime. She played Bela Lugosi's first victim in The Return of the Vampire (1943), Diana Palmer in The Phantom (1943), and she had a minor role in Death of a Salesman (1951), appeared in 1977 as Mrs. X in Eraserhead. Her last roles were small parts in Die Hard 2 (1990) and Mulholland Drive (2001). TV included Buckskin, Riverboat, Peter Gunn, Sheriff of Cochise, Sky King, Whirlybirds, and The Lone Ranger.


Bartlett Carre was a production manager and assistant director. He worked on westerns, then science-fiction and horror. His last work was on Beach Party (1963). Other films include The Raven (1963), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), and Corregidor (1943). He acted, mostly uncredited, in 40 roles through the 30's, mostly westerns.

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Bakersfield National.

Charles Napier was a character actor, usually playing hard-ass military types and menacing bad guys. His film debut was in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970) which included his full-frontal nudity. Other films included Supervixens, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and The Blues Brothers. TV included Star Trek TOS and DSN episodes, voices on 4 Simpsons, and 52 episodes of Men In Black. "I haven't won any awards. Waiting for that's like leaving the porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa, but I've made a living at it".


Belmont Memorial, Fresno.

Walter Huston made his debut on Broadway in 1924, and started in Hollywood in 1929. He won a Best Supporting Actor oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). He also appeared in The Maltese Falcon, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and The Light That Failed. Father of director John Huston and grandfather of actress Angelica Huston.


Cypress Lawn, Colma.

Nicholas John Steel Traina was the lead singer for the punk band Link 80. He started his first band, Shanker, at age 13 with Max Leavitt. He joined Link 80 at age 16. Son of writer Danielle Steel and her third husband. He had a number of psychiatric hospitalizations for drug abuse and treatment of bipolar disorder. Traina died at age 19 of a morphine overdose.


Elk Grove-Cosumnes Cemetery, Elk Grove.

Fourteen year old Elitha Donner was rescued by the first relief party to reach the stranded Donner encampments in California's Sierra Nevada mountains in mid-February, 1847, and taken to Sutter's Fort. She later married a worker there, and after his early death, she married Benjamin Wilder and had 6 children. They lived near Elk Grove.

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Tombstone AZ.

Newman Clanton, known as "Old Man" Clanton, was a cattle rancher and father of four sons, one of whom was killed at the Gunfight at the OK Corral. He also was reportedly selling stolen Mexican cattle in the US. He and 5 others were ambushed and shot by Mexicans and he fell dead into his breakfast cook-fire.


Billy Clanton was a cowboy in the Arizona Territory. Billy worked with his father on their ranch and may have assisted in rustling livestock. He was a member of group of outlaws that had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp. The Clantons repeatedly threatened the Earps because they interfered with the their illegal activities. On October 26, 1881, Billy was killed in the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone.


Frank McLaury and his brother Tom owned a ranch outside Tombstone. They were both killed in the gunfight.

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Lakewood, Hughson.

Dean Jagger was an actor who earned a supporting actor oscar for 1949's Twelve O'Clock High. He was in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor, played Brigham Young (1940), and was in The Robe, White Christmas, Bad Day at Black Rock, and King Creole. He earned 2 Emmy nominations for his TV role in Mr. Novak, and won an Emmy for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life. He played Caine's grandfather in an early episode of Kung Fu.


Max and Verda Foster started Foster Farms in 1939 by borrowing $1,000 against a life insurance policy. They invested in an 80-acre farm near Modesto, California, and began raising turkeys. In the beginning, Max worked at the Modesto newspaper to help support their young business while Verda concentrated on raising healthy chicks.


Andrew Toti held more than 500 US patents at the time of his death. His most famous include the inflatable lifejacket (nicknamed the Mae West) sold to the military for $1600, an automated chicken plucker, and co-inventing the EndoFlex endotracheal tube. Toti owned and operated Tro-Pic-Kal Manufacturing Company of Modesto for approximately 60 years.


Florence Thompson was a 32-year old migrant pea-picker with six children in Nipomo when the famous photographer, Dorothea Lange, took 6 images of her with her children. The image is now known as "Migrant Mother", which you can google. Later in life, Florence preferred a trailer to the house her numerous childen bought for her.

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Hillside, Culver City.

Dr. Harriet B. Braiker was a clinical psychologist and self-help author whose books touched on identity, resolving stress and the grief occasioned by the World Trade Center attacks. Books include The September 11 Syndrome, The Type E Woman, and The Disease to Please. Before starting her private practice, she worked at RAND Corporation analyzing health policies, and later was an editor for Working Woman and a columnist for Lear's magazine.


Irving Brecher was a screenwriter for the Marx Brothers including At the Circus in 1939, and Go West in 1940. He also was one of many uncredited writers on The Wizard of Oz. Other screenplays were Shadow of the Thin Man, Ziegfeld Follies, and Bye Bye Birdie. He created, produced, and was head writer for the original radio and early TV edition of The Life of Riley. He was oscar-nominated in 1944 for his screenplay of Meet Me in St Louis.


Armand Andre "Army" Archerd was a columnist for Variety for over fifty years. One of his most significant scoops was in his July 23, 1985, column, when he printed that Rock Hudson, despite denials, was undergoing treatment for AIDS. Archerd made appearances on The Hollywood Squares game-show, and other TV shows. In 1984, he was given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, in front of Mann's Chinese Theater, where he had emceed dozens of movie premieres.


Frank Bank was an actor known for his role as Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford in 50 episodes of the 1957–1963 TV series Leave It to Beaver, and 101 episodes of The New Leave It to Beaver, which aired on cable television from 1983 to 1989.
Beginning in 1973, Bank became a bond broker. His autobiography, Call Me Lumpy: My Leave It To Beaver Days and Other Wild Hollywood Life, was published in 1997.