Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, California, United States. It includes a crematory for cremation services. Its location is at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. This cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s. In 1926, the name was changed to Westwood Memorial Park and was later renamed to Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary. Noted interments A Kip Addotta (1944–2019), comedian Patrick Adiarte (1942-2025), actor Milton Ager (1893–1979), musician, composer Charles Aidman (1925–1993), actor Eddie Albert (1906–2005), actor Margo Albert (1917–1985), actress, wife of Eddie Albert Shana Alexander (1925–2005), journalist, columnist, television commentator Claud Allister (1888–1970), actor Gitta Alpár (1903–1991), actress, opera singer Richard Anderson (1926–2017), actor, co-star of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman Patty Andrews (1918–2013), singer Tige Andrews (1920–2007), actor Ken Annakin (1914–2009), director Eve Arden (1908–1990), actress, comedian Jack Arnold (1916–1992), director Robert Armstrong (1890–1973), actor James Aubrey (1918–1994), producer Hy Averback (1920–1997), director Lew Ayres (1908–1996), actor B Henny Backus (1911–2004), author, wife of Jim Backus Jim Backus (1913–1989), actor Richard Baer (1928–2008), screenwriter Dave Barbour (1912–1965), musician Edgar Barrier (1907–1964), actor Patricia Barry (1921–2016), actor Eileen Barton (1924–2006), singer Richard Basehart (1914–1984), actor Greg Bautzer (1911–1987), attorney Lee Phillip Bell (1928–2020), television host, producer William J. Bell (1927–2005), producer Isabel Bigley (1926–2006), actress Whit Bissell (1909–1996), actor Hilary Blake (1950–2007), musician Billy Bletcher (1894–1979), actor, voice artist Robert Bloch (1917–1994), writer Lloyd Bochner (1924–2005), actor Peter Bogdanovich (1939–2022), director and screenwriter Benedict Bogeaus (1904–1968), producer John Boles (1895–1969), actor Dorris Bowdon (1914–2005), actress Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), author; buried with his wife Marguerite McClure Bradbury Fanny Brice (1891–1951), actress, comedian, singer (formerly buried in Home of Peace Cemetery) William Brice (1921–2008), artist, son of Fanny Brice Les Brown (1912–2001), musician Vanessa Brown (1928–1999), actress Clarence Bull (1896–1979), photographer Anne Buydens (1919–2021), philanthropist, film producer, wife of Kirk Douglas C Sebastian Cabot (1918–1977), actor Sammy Cahn (1913–1993), songwriter Truman Capote (1924–1984), author Edward Carrere (1906–1984), director Harry Carey, Jr. (1921–2012), actor Mary Carlisle (1914–2018), actress John Cassavetes (1929–1989), actor, screenwriter, director, producer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), composer James Coburn (1928–2002), actor Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist, screenwriter, producer Michel Colombier (1939–2004), musician, composer Ray Conniff (1916–2002), musician Richard Conte (1910–1975), actor Tim Conway (1933–2019), actor, comedian Lawrence Cook (1930–2003), actor Ian Copeland (1949–2006), music promoter Alexander Courage (1919–2008), composer Bob Crane (1928–1978), actor Norma Crane (1928–1973), actress D Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004), comedian, actor Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), actor Danny Dark (1938–2004), announcer Steve Darrell (1904–1970), actor Marvin Davis (1925–2004), oil tycoon, businessman Jason Davis (1984–2020), actor Richard Dawson (1932–2012), actor, television host Don DeFore (1913–1993), actor Laura Devon (1931–2007), actress Richard Dimitri (1942-2025), actor Philip Dorn (1901–1975), actor Eric Douglas (1958–2004), actor Kirk Douglas (1916–2020), actor Dominique Dunne (1959–1982) murder victim, Poltergeist actress, daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, sister of actor-director Griffin Dunne Ariel Durant (1898–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature, co-wrote The Story of Civilization, wife of Will Durant Will Durant (1885–1981), historian, Pulitzer Prize in literature, co-wrote The Story of Civilization, husband of Ariel Durant E Nora Eddington (1924–2001), actress, 2nd wife of Errol Flynn, 3rd wife of Dick Haymes Roger Edens (1905–1970), vocal arranger, songwriter, producer Jack Elliott (1927–2001), songwriter Geoff Emerick (1945–2018), sound engineer Harry Essex (1910–1997), writer Dennis Etchison (1943–2019), writer Ray Evans (1915–2007), songwriter F Peter Falk (1927–2011), actor Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009), actress Bert Fields (1929–2022), entertainment attorney, writer, musician Freddie Fields (1923–2007), talent agent Jay C. Flippen (1899–1971), actor June Foray (1917–2017), voice actress Michael Fox (1921–1996), actor Coleman Francis (1919–1973), film director Leslie Frankenheimer (1948–2013), set decorator Stan Freberg (1926–2015), voice actor Georgia Frontiere (1927–2008), football owner Faiza Rauf (1923–1994), Egyptian princess G Eva Gabor (1919–1995), actress June Gale (1911–1996), actress, wife of Oscar Levant Michael V. Gazzo (1923–1995), actor Christopher George (1931–1983), actor Leonard Gershe (1922–2002), composer Master Henry Gibson (1942–2002), musician Gary Glasberg (1966-2016), writer and producer Paul Gleason (1939–2006), character actor Thomas Gomez (1905–1971), actor Don Gordon (1926–2017), actor Robert Gottschalk (1918–1982), camera technician, co-founder of Panavision Walter Grauman (1922–2015), director Howard Greer (1896–1974), costume and fashion designer Jane Greer (1924–2001), actress Merv Griffin (1925–2007), producer, television host, singer H Loretta King Hadler (1917–2007), actress Hayedeh (1942–1990), Iranian singer and media personality Carrie Hamilton (1963–2002), actress, singer, daughter of Carol Burnett Armand Hammer (1898–1990), oil tycoon, art collector, former president of Occidental Petroleum Bong Soo Han (1933–2007), martial artist Jonathan Harris (1914–2002), actor Harold Hecht (1907–1985), film producer Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), Playboy magazine founder and publisher, businessman Percy Helton (1894–1971), actor Florence Henderson (1934–2016), actress, singer, television host Francesca Hilton (1947–2015), actress, daughter of Zsa Zsa Gabor Connie Hines (1931–2009), actress Jonathan Hole (1904–1998), actor, buried with his wife Betty Hanna, and son David Jon Hole Ben Howard (1904–1970), aircraft designer, race pilot James Wong Howe (1899–1976), cinematographer Rosanna Huffman (1938–2016), actress Mark R. Hughes (1956–2000), founder of Herbalife Ronald Hughes (1935–1970), lawyer Ross Hunter (1920–1996), producer, director, actor Jim Hutton (1934–1979), actor I Steve Ihnat (1934–1972), actor Steve Inwood (1947-2025), actor Franklin D. Israel (1945-1996), Architect; 1975 Rome Prize for architecture J Donald G. Jackson (1943–2003), filmmaker Kevin Jarre (1954–2011), screenwriter Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977), screenwriter, director Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), actor Brenda Joyce (1917–2009), actress K Phil Karlson (1908–1985), director Louis Kaufman (1905–1994), violinist Beatrice Kay (1907–1986), actress, singer Nora Kaye (1920–1987), ballerina Brian Keith (1921–1997), actor Cecil Kellaway (1893–1973), actor Nancy Kelly (1921–1995), actress Stan Kenton (1911–1979), musician Victor Kilian (1891–1979), actor, murdered James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger (1895–1962), aviation executive Louis King (1898–1962), director Jack Klugman (1922–2012), actor, comedian, director, screenwriter Don Knotts (1924–2006), actor, comedian Miliza Korjus (1909–1980), opera singer Phyllis Kennedy (1914–1998), actress L Perry Lafferty (1917–2005), director Bill Lancaster (1947–1997), actor, screenwriter Burt Lancaster (1913–1994), actor Sidney Lanfield (1898–1972), director Paul Laszlo (1900–1993), architect, furniture designer Ed Lauter (1938–2013), actor Marc Lawrence (1910–2005), actor Irving Paul Lazar (1907–1993), agent Joanna Lee (1931–2003), actress Peggy Lee (1920–2002), singer, songwriter, actress Ernest Lehman (1915–2005), screenwriter Janet Leigh (1927–2004), actress Jack Lemmon (1925–2001), actor Queenie Leonard (1905–2002), actress Bruce Lester (1912–2008), actor Oscar Levant (1906–1972), actor, pianist Richard Levinson (1934–1987), writer Harry Lewis (1920–2013), actor, restaurateur Marilyn Lewis (1929–2017), fashion designer, producer Alan W. Livingston (1917–2009), writer, producer Jay Livingston (1915–2001), songwriter Sondra Locke (1944–2018), actress Louis Loeffler (1897–1972), editor Robert Loggia (1930–2015), actor, director M Helen Mack (1913-1986), actress, real name Helen McDougall McAvity Alexander Mackendrick (1912–1993), director Mahasti (1946–2007), Persian language pop singer from Tehran, younger sister of Hayedeh Karl Malden (1912–2009), actor Janet Margolin (1943–1993), actress, married to Ted Wass Dean Martin (1917–1995), actor, singer Andrew Marton (1904–1992), actor Samuel Marx (1902–1992), producer Pamela Mason (1916–1996), actress, wife of James Mason and Roy Kellino Portland Mason (1948–2004), actress, daughter of James Mason and Pamela Mason Shirley Mason (1900–1979), actress Osa Massen (1914–2006), actress Edith Massey (1918–1984), actress Carol Matthau (1925–2003), actress, wife of Walter Matthau and William Saroyan Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor Ruth McDevitt (1895–1976), actress Rod McKuen (1933–2015), poet, composer Peter McWilliams (1949–2000), author Allan Melvin (1923–2008), actor, voice actor Lewis Milestone (1895–1980), director Marvin E. Miller (1913–1985), actor Shirley Mitchell (1919–2013), actress, wife of Jay Livingston Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), actress Constance Moore (1920–2005), singer, actress Dolores Moran (1924–1982), actress Jeff Morris (1934–2004), actor Lloyd Morrisett (1929–2023), psychologist, co-founder of Sesame Workshop, co-creator of Sesame Street N Nader Naderpour (1929–2000), Iranian poet David Nelson (1936–2011), actor, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, older brother of Ricky Nelson William Newell (1894–1967), actor Lloyd Nolan (1902–1985), actor O Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001), actor Ryan O'Neal (1941–2023), actor Heather O'Rourke (1975–1988), actress Barbara Orbison (1950–2011), wife of Roy Orbison Roy Orbison (1936–1988), singer; grave unmarked P Bettie Page (1923–2008), model Dorothy Patrick (1921–1987), actress Wolfgang Petersen (1941–2022), director Frank Pierson (1925–2012), screenwriter, director Waite Phillips (1883–1964), oil tycoon, philanthropist Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976), cellist Jacqueline Piatigorsky (1911–2012), chess player James Prideaux (1927–2015), playwright R Ford Rainey (1908–2005), actor Donna Reed (1921–1986), actress Jimmie Reese (1901–1994), baseball player and coach Renie Riano (1899–1971), actress Buddy Rich (1917–1987), drummer, bandleader Minnie Riperton (1947–1979), singer Ben Roberts (1916–1984), screenwriter; co-creator of Charlie's Angels Doris Roberts (1925–2016), actress, philanthropist, author Wayne Rogers (1933–2015), actor Hillevi Rombin (1933–1996), Miss Universe 1955 Ruth Rose (1896–1978), screenwriter Herbert Ross (1927–2001), film director Gena Rowlands (1930–2024), actress S Jay Sandrich (1932–2021), television director Franklin Schaffner (1920–1989), film director G. David Schine (1927–1996), film producer Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893–1979), film director George C. Scott (1927–1999), actor; grave unmarked Vivienne Segal (1897–1992), singer, actress Anne Seymour (1909–1988), actress Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007), author Dorothy Shay (1921–1978), actress, singer Jeremy Silman (1954-2023), chess player Sam Simon (1955–2015), writer, producer, director Richard Simmons (1948–2024), fitness instructor, television personality Lu Ann Simms (1932–2003), singer Sara Sothern (1895–1994), mother of Elizabeth Taylor Robert Stack (1919–2003), actor Sage Stallone (1976–2012), actor, son of Sylvester Stallone Ray Stark (1915–2004), film producer Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), film director Donald E. Stewart (1930–1999), screenwriter Dorothy Stratten (1960–1980), actress, Playboy Playmate Danny Sugerman (1954–2005), writer, rock band manager Jennifer Syme (1972–2001), actress T Don Taylor (1920–1998), actor, director Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968), art dealer, father of Elizabeth Taylor Kent Taylor (1907–1987), actor Irene Tedrow (1907–1995), actress William C. Thomas (1903–1984), film producer Marshall Thompson (1925–1992), actor Johnny Tillotson (1938-2025) recording artist, songwriter, entertainer Dan Tobin (1910–1982), actor Ernst Toch (1887–1964), composer Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), author Mel Tormé (1925–1999), singer, actor Helen Traubel (1899–1972), opera soprano Les Tremayne (1913–2003), actor Michael Trikilis (1940-2019), TV/film producer Frank Tuttle (1892–1963), screenwriter, producer Toofan (1946-2012) singer V Sigrid Valdis (1935–2007), actress, widow of Bob Crane Clyde Van Dusen (1886–1951), horse trainer, won 1929 Kentucky Derby Romeo Vasquez (1939–2017), actor John Vivyan (1915–1983), actor W June Walker (1900–1966), actress Pat Walshe (1900–1991), actor Larry Ward (1925–1985), actor, screenwriter Harry Warren (1893–1981), songwriter Joe Weider (1919–2013), bodybuilder, author, magazine publisher Winifred Westover (1899–1978), actress Chrissie White (1895–1989), silent film actress Michael White (1936–2016), producer Sean Whitesell (1963–2015), actor Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), singer Herbert Wiere (1908–1999), performer Cornel Wilde (1915–1989), actor Billy Wilder (1906–2002), filmmaker Brian Wilson (1942–2025), musician, composer, producer, founding member of The Beach Boys Carl Wilson (1946–1998), musician, founding member of The Beach Boys Estelle Winwood (1883–1984), actress Albert Wohlstetter (1913–1997), nuclear strategist Roberta Wohlstetter (1912–2007), historian of military intelligence Natalie Wood (1938–1981), actress Y Edward Yang (1947–2007), filmmaker Z Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979), head of 20th Century Fox studios, father of Richard D. Zanuck Virginia Zanuck (1908–1982), actress, wife of Darryl F. Zanuck, mother of Richard D. Zanuck Frank Zappa (1940–1993), composer, musician, satirist, leader of The Mothers of Invention; grave unmarked Gail Zappa (1945–2015), widow of Frank Zappa and trustee of the Zappa Family Trust; buried next to her husband See also List of United States cemeteries References External links map showing location of celebrity graves California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau Certificate of Authority – Cemetery, License Number 506 Archived February 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Funeral Establishment License Number 951 Archived June 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Westwood Memorial Park