San Fernando Mission, Mission Hills.
Ken Lynch was an actor with over 180 credits. Lynch began his acting career on radio, and on The Bishop and the Gargoyle, he played the Gargoyle, an ex-convict who helped the Bishop solve crimes. He was on the daytime radio soap operas Backstage Wife, Portia Faces Life, and A Woman of America. In 1950, Lynch starred in One Thousand Dollars Reward, a crime drama, where after the episode had ended, the host call a random listener who would then try to solve the mystery. From 1949-1954, Lynch starred in The Plainclothesman on TV. Other TV included Peter Gunn, Zorro, Have Gun - Will Travel, Checkmate, The Asphalt Jungle, Straightaway, The Honeymooners, The Fugitive, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Blue Light, Adam-12, Star Trek, Maverick, All In The Family, The Twilight Zone, The Rifleman, and The Wild Wild West. He appeared in 12 episodes of Gunsmoke, 10 episodes of The FBI, nine episodes of Bonanza, and six episodes in both The Virginian and Gomer Pyle USMC, and three appearances on Perry Mason. He had 16 appearances on McCloud. Films include I Married a Monster from Outer Space, North By Northwest, The Lawbreakers, Pork Chop Hill, Anatomy of a Murder and Tora! Tora! Tora!. His last performance was as Rear Admiral Talbot Gray in The Winds of War mini-series. About 1970, Lynch bought a flower shop in North Hollywood and began studying floriculture and taking courses in floral arranging and design, and then providing flowers for local weddings, receptions, and other events.
Julian Rivero was an American actor who made his film debut in the 1923 silent melodrama, The Bright Shawl. His first featured role was in 1924's western, Fast and Fearless. During the early 1930s, while Hollywood was still making versions of films in different languages, Rivero continued to be cast in Spanish language films. His first sound film in English was God's Country and the Man. During the 1930s and 1940s many roles were in westerns including Winner Take All, Diamond Jim, Heroes of the Alamo, Down Argentine Way, and Blood and Sand. He had small role in the 1942 remake of Rio Rita starring Abbott and Costello, and he played a Spanish official in Woman of the Year. He was a monk in The Song of Bernadette, a waiter in Laurel and Hardy's final film, The Bullfighters. He played a government clerk in Anna and the King of Siam, the manservant in Road to Rio, and the barber in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Films from the 1950's include Broken Arrow, Sirocco, East of Eden, Giant, Don't Go Near the Water in which Rivero had a featured role, and Houseboat. TV included Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Broken Arrow, Rawhide, and after taking a break, was on The Fugitive, I Spy, Family Affair, The Flying Nun, Mannix, and Medical Center. His final role was as Gitano in the 1973 TV movie, The Red Pony, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara.
Philip Abbott was an actor and director known for The F.B.I. (1965), General Hospital (1963) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Abbott was a co-founder of Theatre West, a Los Angeles stage company. He served as the honorary mayor of Tarzana in the early 1970s, and served terms as the president and board chairman of the Los Angeles United Cerebral Palsy-Spastic Children's Foundation.
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