Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

The Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood Village section of Los Angeles, California, USA. 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
• 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