Eternal Valley Memorial Park
The men and women are interred at Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall, Los Angeles, California.
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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835, grew up in Hannibal. He was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Throughout his career, Twain served as a writer, lecturer, reporter, editor, printer, and prospector. Twain took his pen name from an alert cry used on his steamboat - "by the mark, twain".Cenotaph Plot: Mark Twain Garden
GPS coordinates: 34.3634491, -118.5093918 (hddd.dddd)- Actor
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Roy Brown was born on 10 September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Sid and Nancy (1986), 42 (2013) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). He died on 25 May 1981 in San Fernando, California, USA.Plot: Garden of Meditation, L-202E
GPS coordinates: 34.3606415, -118.5098419 (hddd.dddd)- An Oklahoma native whose childhood and teen-years were spent on the Cain family farm in Wichita Falls, Texas, "Ace" Cain spent most of the decade of the 1920s in the U.S. Army, serving primarily in the Pacific Rim---China, the Phillipines, Hawaii---and became a prolific and skilled gambler. After his Army days, he was a bootlegger in Hollywood during the latter years of Prohibition. He owned and operated Ace Cain's Cafe on Western Avenue near Sunset Blvd. across the street from 20th Century-Fox studios, and his brother Jim Cain operated a retail liquor store next door. Because of his imposing size and menacing features, he was given villain roles in 14 Poverty Row westerns made in the mid-30s. He later owned the Uncle Ace Liquor Store and Uncle Ace Motel located on Western Avenue near Santa Monica Blvd. He also bought and operated the Rocky Springs Country Club in Saugus, California, a place with a dubious reputation because of the many "very friendly" women---ex-models and show girls---who frequented the club.
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Ed Gilbert was born on 29 June 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) and The Transformers (1984). He died on 8 May 1999 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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African-American movie actor and producer Noble Johnson was born on April 18, 1881, in Marshall, Missouri. His family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, when Noble was very young, and it was there that he met Lon Chaney at school. They became friends as children, and later got re-acquainted when both were making movies in Hollywood and became friends all over again (surprisingly, they never made any movies together).
Johnson was built like a bull, standing 6'2" at 215 pounds. His impressive physique and handsome features made him in demand as a character actor and bit player. In the silent era he essayed a wide variety of characters of different races in a plethora of films, primarily serials, westerns and adventure movies. While Johnson was cast as blacks in many films, he also played Native American and Latino parts and "exotic" characters such as Arabians or even a devil in hell in Dante's Inferno (1924) (the old black and white orthochromatic film stock of the early days was less discriminating about a person's color, as were B+W stocks in general, permitting some African-American actors a break, as their "color" was washed out or less obvious when photographed in B+W. As late as the early 1960s, there were very few African-American members of the Screen Actors Guild, since there was a lack of opportunity for them as black performers were confined mostly to race films until the 1960s). In all his roles, Johnson lived up to his Christian name: his was a noble and dignified presence that exhibited great power and substance.
Johnson also was an entrepreneur. In 1916 he founded his own studio to produce what would be called "race films", movies made for the African-American audience, which was ignored by the "mainstream" film industry. The Lincoln Motion Picture Co., which was in existence until 1921, was an all-black company, the first to produce movies portraying African-Americans as real people instead of as racist caricatures (Johnson was followed into the race film business by Oscar Micheaux and others). Johnson, who served as president of the company and was its primary asset as a star actor, helped support the studio by acting in other companies' productions such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), and using the money he made in those films to invest in Lincoln.
Lincoln's first picture was The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (1916). For four years Johnson managed to keep Lincoln a going concern, primarily due to his extraordinary commitment to African-American filmmaking. However, he reluctantly resigned as president in 1920, as he no longer could continue his double business life, maintaining a demanding career in Hollywood films while trying to run a studio.
In the 1920s Johnson was a very busy character actor, appearing in such top-notch films as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) with Rudolph Valentino, Cecil B. DeMille's original The Ten Commandments (1923) andThe Thief of Bagdad (1924). He made the transition to sound, appearing in the 1930 version of Moby Dick (1930) as Queequeg to John Barrymore's Captain Ahab. He was also the tribal leader on Skull Island in the classic King Kong (1933) (and its sequel, Son of Kong (1933)) and appeared in Frank Capra's classic Lost Horizon (1937) as one of theporters. One of his last films was John Ford's classic She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), in which he played Native American Chief Red Shirt. He retired from the movie industry in 1950.
Johnson died on January 9, 1978, in Yucaipa (San Bernardino), California, at age 96. He is buried in the Garden of Peace at Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall, California.Plot: Garden of Peace, A-270
GPS coordinates: 34.3619385, -118.5098572 (hddd.dddd)- Tor Johnson was a big man, with a big heart, who was born October 19, 1903, in Sweden.
Most of his adult life, he was a professional wrestler. Tor started appearing (uncredited, or in bit parts) in movies as early as 1934. He was in 31 movies, usually as "Weightlifter" or "Strongman."
Later, he got larger roles with character names. Tor was in the Bing Crosby - Bob Hope movie Road to Rio (1947) as Samson; and had a part in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) as Abou Ben.
Contrary to how it was depicted in the semi-documentary "Ed Wood," that Ed approached Tor and asked him if he ever fancied the notion of becoming an actor (and starting his film career), Ed worked with Tor towards the end of his movie career. Ed Wood got Tor to portray Lobo in Bride of the Monster (1955). After appearing in 3 other movies, Ed Wood cast Tor in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957).
Then Ed had Tor reprise his role of Lobo for Night of the Ghouls (1959) -- in that movie, Paul Marco (Kelton the Cop) had a full load in the prop gun he fired at Tor where sparks hit Tor's arms, which by reflex hit Paul, knocking him unconscious in real life; Tor felt bad about that, but everybody knew it was just a case of the big guy not knowing his own strength.
A friend and cohort of Ed's (and also a writer, director and producer in his own right), was Anthony Cardoza. Ed lived in an apartment on Yucca Street (nicknamed "Yucca Flats"), and in 1961, Anthony cast Tor Johnson in a starring role in his low budget movie The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961). This movie was filmed silent, had dubbed-in sound effects, voiced-over narration, and killed off Tor's movie career once and for all (for which Tor was paid only $300). However, Tor had somewhat of a TV career in the 1960s, appearing on "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx, several appearances on "The Red Skelton Show," and even doing a number of TV commercials.
Costars spoke fondly of Tor, remembering, "Tor had such warmth! He was so cooperative-- just a lovely man. As you know, he was a former wrestler ... he would go and have drinks with his opponents after a wrestling match." And, he lived large. Friends spoke of his gracious wife Greta who made great Swedish dinners, along with desserts consisting of her homemade ice cream with strawberries, bananas, coconut and whipped cream.
Little wonder his son, Karl, grew up to be big and strong, and became a Lieutenant with the San Fernando Police Department. And, some friends would chuckle as they recalled that, as big as he was, Tor drove a midget foreign car which was "not much bigger than he was."
Tor Johnson died on May 12, 1971, in San Fernando, CA, due to a heart ailment; he was 67.Plot: Whispering Pines, 177 E
GPS coordinates: 34.3628998, -118.5100937 (hddd.dddd) - George Spahn was born on 11 February 1889 in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 22 September 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Cliffie Stone was born on 1 March 1917 in Stockton, California, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Back to School (1986), Startime (1959) and Melvin and Howard (1980). He was married to Joan Carol and Darling, Dorothy Hamilton. He died on 16 January 1998 in Newhall, California, USA.Plot: Whispering Pines, 177 E
GPS coordinates: 34.3628998, -118.5100937 (hddd.dddd)- Actor
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Robert Bice was born on 4 March 1914 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Foxfire (1955), Invasion, U.S.A. (1952) and Burke's Law (1963). He was married to Beverly L Boos, Audrey Daphne Stuart and Louise Weatherford. He died on 8 January 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Mausoleum of Golden Oaks, 9-D- Actor
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Gene Vincent was born Eugene Vincent Craddock (Vincent Eugene according to some biographers) on February 11, 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia. He quit school at the age of 17 to join the Navy. His naval career was ended following a motorcycle accident while on shore leave in 1955. Shortly thereafter he heard an up-and-coming singer named Elvis Presley and decided on a singing career of his own. His excellent voice helped to hook him up with Norfolk disk jockey Tex Davis who pushed him through to Capitol Records where he recorded the million selling Be-Bop-A-Lula in 1956. While his first record earned him several movie appearances including The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Hot Rod Gang (1958) and helped him to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his success was short lived. His original Blue Caps band broke up fairly quickly and his fame in America dwindled as rebellious rockers of the 1950s were replaced by clean-cut teen idols of the early 1960s. Vincent moved to Britain in 1959, where he was a cult figure, and remained there for a decade. He returned to America in 1969 with a new record deal and enjoyed a brief revival among the hippy teenagers in California, who revered him as a legend. His new found fame was cut short by his death on October 12, 1971 at the age of 36 years following complications of a bleeding ulcer and seizure. He had been married four times and was a reputed hard drinker which most likely caused his death.Plot: Garden of Repose, grave #A91
GPS coordinates: 34.3618584, -118.0773010 (hddd.dddd)- Actor
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Tex Williams, along with Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, was among the most popular bandleaders in the musical genre known as "western swing" in the 1940s and 1950s (although he used the nickname "Tex", he was actually from Illinois). His popularity led to Universal Pictures bringing him to Hollywood to make a series of musical western shorts in the late 1940s, and he and his band shot about a dozen of them before the series ended in 1952.Plot: Zane Grey Garden, L-139C
GPS coordinates: 34.3632889, -118.5112000 (hddd.dddd)- Actor
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Veteran stuntman and stunt coordinator Henry Wills was born on a cattle ranch in Arizona in 1921. After graduating high school he headed to Hollywood, and was soon working as an extra, mainly in westerns. He picked up some extra money doing stunt work, and soon began to concentrate on that field. He gained a reputation as one of the best horsemen in the business, specializing in horse falls--he's estimated to have done over 1400 of them in his career--transfers from horses to wagons and stagecoaches, and bulldogging (jumping off his horse to take down a rider on another horse), etc. His first job as a full-fledged Stunt Coordinator was on The Magnificent Seven (1960), and he became a Second-Unit Director on Major Dundee (1965). He worked on many of the top TV westerns, and was stunt coordinator and Second Unit Director on the hit series The High Chaparral (1967). He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, CA, in 1994.Plot: Will Rogers Garden, Grave 132-F- William Bronder was born on 12 June 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Stand by Me (1986), Return to Me (2000) and Cannery Row (1982). He was married to Tona Dodd. He died on 6 May 2015 in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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She was a pert brunette with a winning smile who decorated several minor screen entertainments in the 1940s. A genuinely talented singer and tap dancer, even a fair actress, Mary Hatcher enjoyed a promising start, yet -- like so many other hopefuls -- her career barely got off the ground. Mary was born and raised in Florida where her good singing voice (coloratura soprano) found a willing sponsor in her father's wealthy employer. With ample funds for her vocal tuition thus available she went on to train under the famous Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout. For some reason, or other, grand opera didn't pan out and Mary went on to take singing lessons from a local band leader, Frank Grasso, who also happened to be musical director at a radio station in Tampa. She then sang on radio broadcasts and eventually made her public debut at a 'Latin American Fiesta' in 1940. This was followed by gigs at various charity events for British War Relief. In 1941, still cheerfully subsidized by her father's boss, she undertook further studies at the Juilliard School of Music.
Mary's first attempt to get into films proved to be inauspicious, having twice failed auditions in New York. Her mother was ambitious for her to succeed and this may well have prompted the Hatcher family moving to California. In 1944, Mary was successfully screen-tested and signed to a seven-year contract by Paramount. Simultaneously, she was loaned out to a touring New York Theatre Guild production of "Oklahoma". As a result, she didn't make her screen bow until 1946. Her first three pictures were bit parts. Most of her subsequent leads turned out to be lightweight in nature. Her first was a star-studded musical jamboree: Variety Girl (1947) featured cameos from just about every Paramount contract star (except for Betty Hutton who was pregnant at the time). Opportunities for an upcoming starlet to shine were inevitably limited. At least, Mary got to warble "Julicat" in George Pal's 5-minute Puppetoon segment of "Romeow and Julicat".
She then played one of three sisters (the others were Veronica Lake and Mona Freeman) in a tepid black & white period musical (Isn't It Romantic (1948)), danced with Desi Arnaz in the cheerful low-budget musical Holiday in Havana (1949) and starred as a tomboy love interest opposite Mickey Rooney in The Big Wheel (1949) (an implausible tale of a garage mechanic who ends up becoming an Indianapolis 500 champion). In 1949, Mary landed the plum role of Dallas Smith in the original Broadway musical production of Johnny Mercer's "Texas, L'il Darlin" which ran for a respectable 293 performances, closing in September 1950. The following year, she made her movie swan song playing Maid Marian in a Poverty Row production of Tales of Robin Hood (1951), purportedly the pilot for a failed TV series. Mary gave up film work shortly thereafter and faded into relative obscurity.
Both of her husbands were involved in the big band scene: her first was the comedian Herkie Styles (at the time an alumnus of the Benny Goodman orchestra, later a regular on the Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964) TV show), the second was the renowned swing-era drummer Alvin Stoller.- Sound Department
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Christopher Banninger was born on 26 December 1955 in Kewadin, Michigan, USA. Christopher is known for General Hospital (1963), Up Close & Personal (1996) and Rolling Vengeance (1987). Christopher was married to Beth Maitland. Christopher died on 31 October 2019 in Canyon Country, California, USA.- Marie Harmon was born on 21 October 1923 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The El Paso Kid (1946), Springtime in Texas (1945) and Nighttime in Nevada (1948). She was married to Dr. Wolfgang Kaupisch, Donald Currie and William G, Jones, Jr.. She died on 25 January 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Eugene Wright was born on 29 May 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Pretty Woman (1990), Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate (1967) and Närvarande (2003). He was married to Phyllis Lycett Wright and Jacquueline Waters. He died on 30 December 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.