Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Interred in this cemetery is a number of the entertainment industry's greatest stars including:

• Eve Arden - actress, "Our Miss Brooks"
• Hy Averback - director
• Jim Backus - actor, Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island"
• Richard Basehart - actor, Admiral Nelson on TV?s "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
• Sebastian Cabot - actor, played the butler Mr. French on "Family Affair"
• Sammy Cahn - songwriter,
• Truman Capote, author - "In Cold Blood"
• John Cassavetes - actor, screenwriter, director, producer
• Dominique Dunne - actress, Poltergeist; daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, brother of actor-director Griffin Dunne
• Louis Jourdan, Jr. - son of French actor Louis Jourdan, died from a drug overdose
• Burt Lancaster, actor
• Oscar Levant, actor, pianist
• Eva Gabor, actress - "Green Acres"
• Hugh Hefner - "In waiting" - He purchased the crypt beside Marilyn Monroe, his first "Playboy" centerfold.
• Janis Joplin, singer. She was cremated here and later scattered in the Pacific Ocean
• Brian Keith - actor, Uncle Bill on "Family Affair" - Buried with his daughter, Daisy. Both committed suicide.
• Peggy Lee, singer
• Jack Lemmon, actor
• Dean Martin, actor, singer
• Walter Matthau, actor
• Marilyn Monroe, actress
• Carroll O'Connor, actor - Archie Bunker
• Heather O'Rourke, actress, Poltergeist
• Roy Orbison, legendary singer, and Rock and Roll pioneer
• Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
• Donna Reed, actress
• George C. Scott, actor - "Patton"
• Robert Stack, actor - The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries
• Dorothy Stratten, "Playboy Playmate," actress, murdered at age 20
• Mel Torme, singer
• Cornel Wilde, actor
• Billy Wilder, director
• Carl Wilson, singer - The Beach Boys
• Natalie Wood, actress
• Darryl F. Zanuck - head of 20th Century Fox Film Studios
• Frank Zappa - musician

See also: List of famous cemeteries

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