Inglewood Park Cemetery
The men and women were interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California.
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- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
Chet Baker started his career in the late forties. He became famous with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet in 1952. His solo in "My funny valentine" is a classic of the west coast jazz in the fifties. When Mulligan was arrested in 1953, Chet led the group until 1955, when he went to Europe. He also sang on many records. In Europe he recorded with many musicians in different countries. His career was interrupted many times for personal problems with drugs and he was arrested many times for his addiction. In 1974 he come back to music after three years in obscurity, playing in a concert in Carnegie Hall with his old friend, Gerry Mulligan. After this he started a "new career", but his problems with drugs were continuous. His death today is a mystery, one possibility is suicide but another says he was killed by trafficants in Amsterdam, Holland.Plot: Elm plot, Division C, Lot 152
GPS coordinates: 33.9613914, -118.3388901 (hddd.dddd)- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Art Director
Renowned cinematographer Joseph August began his film career not as a cameraman but as a wrangler--he was born and raised in Colorado--at Inceville, the studio begun by pioneering producer/director Thomas H. Ince. He soon switched careers, becoming an assistant to cinematographer Ray C. Smallwood. He shot his first film, Lure of the Violin (1913), in 1912. His reputation became such that only three years later he was picked as "official" cameraman for western star William S. Hart, shooting more than 40 of Hart's westerns. When Hart retired August went to Fox, where he worked with director John Ford, who appreciated August's expertise at outdoor photography. August was also known for his affinity for and facility with low-key lighting, a technique he initially developed out of necessity, since the types of lighting units that could light up a set were expensive, extremely hot and not particularly efficient when August first started out as a cameraman.
He and Ford developed both a professional and personal relationship, and during World War II August joined Ford in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of the modern-day CIA. Both Ford and August were wounded while shooting combat for the documentary The Battle of Midway (1942).
In addition to his other accomplishments, August was also a founding member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).Plot: Pinecrest, lot 1340- Coit Albertson was born on 14 October 1880 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Carter Case (1919), Casey of the Coast Guard (1926) and The Evil Dead (1922). He was married to Helen Catechakes. He died on 13 December 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Grace Chapel Columbarium, Community Niche C
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Canadian-born (Winnipeg) Reginald Barker moved with his family to Scotland shortly after he was born, and they eventually emigrated to the US, settling in California. Bitten by the show-business bug early, Barker was acting in plays by age 16, and then joined up with a traveling stock company as stage manager. He eventually made his way to New York City, where he got a job as a stage manager and, starting in 1910, as an actor. He found that the burgeoning motion picture business proved more interesting to him than the stage, and he joined Bison Pictures, traveling to California and working under legendary producer Thomas H. Ince. He soon left acting and worked as an assistant director, making his directorial debut in 1912 with On the Warpath (1912), a western with Art Acord. He worked steadily for Ince, and was so highly thought of by the producer that he shared director duties with Barker on Ince's epic, Civilization (1915).
Barker directed almost 100 films over his career, working with such stars as Sessue Hayakawa, Hoot Gibson and Myrna Loy. He directed his last film in 1935 and then retired from the industry. He and his wife opened up a gift shop in Pasadena, California. Barker died of a heart attack in 1945 in Los Angeles. He was 58.Plot: Mausoleum of the Golden West.- Earl Battey was born on 5 January 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Sonia. He died on 15 November 2003 in Ocala, Florida, USA.
- Ricky Bell was born on 8 April 1955 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Disco 9000 (1977), The NFL on CBS (1956) and NFL Monday Night Football (1970). He was married to Nathalia Laidler. He died on 28 November 1984 in Inglewood, California, USA.Plot: Parkview Plot, Lot 973, Grave D
GPS coordinates: 33.9664688, -118.3365173 (hddd.dddd) - Soundtrack
George Bennard was born on 4 February 1873 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. George died on 10 October 1958 in Reed City, Michigan, USA.Plot: Oak Plot, Division D, Lot 24- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Edgar Bergen was born on 16 February 1903 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Fun and Fancy Free (1947), The Muppet Movie (1979) and Letter of Introduction (1938). He was married to Frances Bergen. He died on 30 September 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Plot: Miramar Plot, Lot 131, Grave 2
GPS coordinates: 33.9697304, -118.3384171 (hddd.dddd)- Actress
- Soundtrack
The daughter of William and Lillie Mae Westerman, her father died of tuberculosis when she was ten years old. Her mother then moved the family to Los Angeles.
She suffered a skull fracture in an auto accident when she was 14. While recuperating, she was given a Charlie McCarthy doll to cheer her up. Little did she know she'd later marry Charlie McCarthy creator, famous comedian and ventriloquist, Edgar Bergen.
Graduated from Los Angeles High School, where she was a pom-pom girl. At 19, Frances was in the audience of Edgar Bergen's radio program as the guest of a member of his staff. Sitting in the front row, her long legs caught the attention of the 39-year-old star, who asked to meet her. They were married in Mexico after a year of long distance courtship.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Paul Bern is undoubtedly more famous today for being found shot to death in his bathroom barely 2 months after his marriage to proto-sex symbol Jean Harlow in 1932. Born in Hamburg, Germany as Paul Levy, he came to the United States with his family as a child. His mother died by drowning in the fall of 1920, as documented in her death certificate, not by suicide as previously speculated. Bern spent the vast majority of his adult life employed as a screenwriter, director and producer at MGM before rising into the upper executive ranks. He most notably kept his feet wet in production by co-producing the all-star hit _Grand Hotel (1932/I which won the third Oscar)_ with the uncredited boy-genius, Irving Thalberg. He gained a reputation as one of the few MGM executives stars could turn to with their personal problems and be assured of a degree of confidentiality. He was the first person many of them sought out prior to dealing with hard-nosed studio boss Louis B. Mayer. His quiet intellectual demeanor attracted Harlow--- who despite her sexpot screen persona, was inclined to more cerebral pursuits. But in marrying her, Bern also inherited her leeching family and they strained the marriage from the start. Sadly it was in death--- which still stands officially as a suicide-- that he gained the most press, one of the most studied and wildly speculated-upon mysteries in Hollywood history. His alleged suicide note is open to lurid interpretation and doubts persist whether it's written in his own handwriting or is merely an apology written weeks before over what could politely be called a sexual dysfunction. Harlow herself never publicly commented on the matter, although she was interviewed by LAPD detectives and appeared before a grand jury. Screenwriter Ben Hecht claimed he was murdered by a mentally imbalanced former lover, Dorothy Millette (with whom had a common law marriage and whom Bern continued to marginally support) who was found floating in the Sacramento River the day following his death. Speculation also surrounds E.J. Mannix's activities in the case. Mannix was known in those days as the studio's "fixer" and rumors abound on the degree of his involvement, most recently alluded to in Hollywoodland (2006). The Los Angeles- Soundtrack
Richard Berry was born on 11 April 1935 in Extension, Louisiana, USA. He died on 23 January 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Sunset Mission Mausoleum, Sanctuary El Sereno, Crypt D-222
GPS coordinates: 33.9708214, -118.3432999 (hddd.dddd)- Actor
- Writer
Elmer Booth was born on 9 December 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for His Auto's Maiden Trip (1912), Why He Gave Up (1911) and Abe Gets Even with Father (1911). He was married to Irene Outtrim. He died on 16 June 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Sequoia, Lot 164 (unmarked, beneath the Booth Family marker).- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Margaret Booth was born on 14 January 1898 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an editor and producer, known for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Murder by Death (1976) and Annie (1982). She died on 28 October 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lyman Bostock was born on 22 November 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He was married to Youvene Whistler. He died on 24 September 1978 in Gary, Indiana, USA.Plot: Parkview Section, Lot 342, Grave D
GPS coordinates: 33.9660301, -118.3369293 (hddd.dddd) - Fletcher Bowron was born on 13 August 1887 in Porway, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950) and Stars in the Eye (1952). He died on 11 September 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: El Portal Plot, Lot 214, Grave A
GPS coordinates: 33.9666710, -118.3381882 (hddd.dddd) - Tom Bradley was born on 29 December 1917 in Calvert, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Nick of Time (1995), It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986) and 16 Days of Glory (1985). He was married to Ethel Arnold. He died on 29 September 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Sunset Mission Mausoleum. Vault 1086D. On your left as you enter.
GPS coordinates: 33.9713898, -118.3430634 (hddd.dddd) - Make-Up Department
- Actor
- Stunts
Layne Britton was born on 5 September 1907 in Munday, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Pier 5, Havana (1959). He was married to Leila Sackett. He died on 12 December 1993 in Marina del Rey, California, USA.Plot: Pacific Terrace Plot, Lot 157, Grave B- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Charles Brown was born on 13 September 1922 in Texas City, Texas, USA. He was a composer, known for Cast Away (2000), Wild Card (2015) and Hold the Dark (2018). He died on 21 January 1999 in Oakland, California, USA.Plot: Sunset Mission Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Bells, Crypt 930
GPS coordinates: 33.9713898, -118.3430634 (hddd.dddd)- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
In spite of the fact, that he only had been on a conservatory for only short time, he was a very successful popular composer, who wrote with lyricist and later producer Arthur Freed not only the songs for MGM musical and non-musical films, e.g. "Broadway Melody" for the movie "The Broadway Melody", "You Are My Lucky Star" and "Broadway Rhythm" for "Broadway Melody of 1936", "Temptation" for "Going Hollywood" and - best remembered - "Singin' in the Rain" from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929", which became a classic in the movie "Singin' in the Rain" in the version of Gene Kelly. He also worked with Richard A. Whiting and Buddy G. DeSylva on the Broadway Musical "Take a Chance."Plot: Sunny Slope, Lot 188 (S. side of section, near top of hill, in front of Brown memorial monument headstone)- Plot: Inglewood Mausoleum, Room D
GPS coordinates: 33.9712791, -118.3387527 (hddd.dddd) - Music Department
- Producer
Jheryl Busby was born on 5 May 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer, known for Joyce Irby feat. Doug E. Fresh: Mr. DJ (1989), BET Special: Johnny Gill (1993) and Intimate Portrait (1990). He died on 4 November 2008 in Malibu, California, USA.Plot: Sunset Mission Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Sierra, Crypt 577- William D. Byrd was born on 3 May 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986), A Man Called Hawk (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1987). He died on 21 July 1993 in Inglewood, California, USA.Plot: Crypt 901 Sanctuary of Valor Manchester Maus.
- Bebe Moore Campbell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to George and Doris Moore. After her parents' divorce, Campbell started sending her father serial short stories when he moved to North Carolina. She later credited these short stories as the beginning of her career as a writer. Due to the influence of her strict mother, Campbell went on to be a straight "A" student at Philadelphia High School for Girls and an Elementary Education graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.
After college Campbell taught elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC. While teaching in Atlanta, Campbell took a writing class from Toni Cade Bambara and was bitten by the writing bug. Campbell also worked at Howard University in Washington, DC as a publicist.
In 1976, Essence Magazine bought one of Campbell's short stories. Thinking that she was on her way to becoming a novelist, Campbell submitted several more stories to Essence to no avail. One day, the editor of Essence was at Howard University for a conference and Campbell seized an opportunity to talk to her in the ladies bathroom. Campbell was told that if she wrote non-fiction instead of fiction, there was a good chance the magazine would print more of her work. Campbell followed that advice and became a frequent contributor to Essence.
As a result of her start at Essence, Campbell became a prolific fiction and non-fiction writer. Her first non-fiction book was "Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage" and her first novel was "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine," a story based on Emmitt Till's 1955 murder. In addition to writing, Campbell was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and an advocate for the mentally ill. She penned several books and commentaries on mental illness in the African-American community.
In February of 2006, Campbell was diagnosed with brain cancer, an illness to which she ultimately succumbed at the age of 56. Campbell died in Los Angeles, California, and is survived by her mother, Doris, husband, Ellis Gordon Jr., daughter, Maia Campbell, son, Ellis Gordon III, and two grandchildren. - Margaret Campbell was born on 24 April 1883 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Laundry Girl (1919), Top o' the Morning (1922) and The Dangerous Blonde (1924). She was married to Josef Swickard. She died on 27 June 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Lot 1286, G Plot [unmarked]
- Ed Cassidy was born on 21 March 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Valley of Fear (1947), Sun Valley Cyclone (1946) and Navajo Kid (1945). He was married to Pearl Wiard(vaudeville actress) and Dorothy. He died on 19 January 1968 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Montcrest Section - Lot 407, Division C, grave 6