Mountain View Cemetery (Altadena)
The men and women are interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, Los Angeles, California.
List activity
2.9K views
• 1 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
24 people
- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
George Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, to Helen Roberta (Lescher) and Donald C. Brewer. He was of German, English, and Scottish descent. Following his parents' divorce and his mother's remarriage to Frank J. Bessolo, Reeves was raised in Pasadena, California, and educated at Pasadena Junior College.
He was a skilled amateur boxer and musician. He interned as an actor at the famed Pasadena Playhouse, performed in dozens of plays, and was discovered there by casting director Maxwell Arnow. He was cast as Stuart Tarleton in Gone with the Wind (1939). While shooting the film, he appeared in another play at the Pasadena Playhouse and was seen there and signed by Warner Bros. studios. Over the next ten years he was contracted to Warners, Fox and Paramount.
He achieved near-stardom as the male lead in So Proudly We Hail! (1943), but war service interrupted his career, and after he returned it never regained the same level. While in the Army Air Corps he appeared on Broadway in "Winged Victory," then made training films. Career difficulties after the war led him to move to New York for live television. It was television where he achieved the kind of fame that had eluded him in films, as he was cast in the lead of the now-iconic Adventures of Superman (1952). He got a few film roles in the early 1950s, but he was mostly typecast as Superman, and other acting jobs soon dried up. His career had slid to the point where he was considering an attempt at exhibition wrestling when he committed suicide by shooting himself.
Controversy still surrounds his death, due mainly to the fact of his longtime affair with Toni Mannix (aka Toni Mannix), the wife of MGM executive E.J. Mannix. Many of Reeves' friends and colleagues didn't believe that he had committed suicide but that his death was related to the Mannix situation. However, no credible evidence has ever been produced to support that contention.Plot: Pasadena Mausoleum, Sunrise Corridor- Octavia Butler was born on 22 June 1947 in Pasadena, California, USA. She was a writer, known for Parable of the Sower, Kindred (2022) and Wild Seed. She died on 24 February 2006 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA.
- Director
- Writer
Eldridge Cleaver was born on 31 August 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Congo Oyé (We Have Come Back) (1971), Around South Central (1971) and 1 P.M. (1971). He was married to Kathleen Cleaver. He died on 1 May 1998 in Pomona, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Richard Feynman is one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists. He worked on the atomic bomb project and won the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. He was one of the chief investigators in the Challenger Shuttle disaster.Plot: Founders Lawn, Curb No. 1617- Writer
- Animation Department
- Art Department
Vance Gerry was born on 21 August 1929 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Hercules (1997) and Oliver & Company (1988). He was married to Mary. He died on 5 March 2005 in Pasadena, California, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Wilbur Hatch was born on 24 May 1902 in Mokena, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for Star Trek (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Twilight Zone (1959). He died on 22 December 1969 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Paul F. Heard was born in 1913 in Olivia, Minnesota, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Hong Kong Affair (1958), What Price Freedom (1955) and Kenji Comes Home (1949). He died in 1964.Plot: Founder- Frank Holliday is known for The Wonderpill (2015), The Killing Machines (2007) and The Likes of Us (2009).Plot: Mountain Vineyard, L-3233, space 3
- Set Decorator
- Costume Designer
- Writer
George James Hopkins was born on 23 March 1896 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was a set decorator and costume designer, known for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), My Fair Lady (1964) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). He died on 11 February 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ted Husing was born on 27 November 1901 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (1948), To Please a Lady (1950) and Mr. Broadway (1933). He was married to Iris Lemerise, Celia Ryland and Helen Maude Gifford (Bubs Gelderman). He died on 10 August 1962 in Pasadena, California, USA.Plot: Valley View, L-2258
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Cy Kendall was born on 10 March 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Lady in the Death House (1944), Blonde for a Day (1946) and Pacific Liner (1939). He was married to Margaret. He died on 22 July 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Chapel of The Gardens Mausoleum- Helen Marlborough born Helen Viola Gleason in 1867 in California, became well-known in American comedy and drama theatre from the 1880s, short plump lady in few film roles, first playing her debut role in a brilliant performance as Mrs. Wright in 'The Wild Goose Chase' directed by Cecil B. De Mille at the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Film Co in 1915 followed by two last well-known films in 1916, she died in 1955 in Pasadena.Plot: Mountain Meadow, Lot 5541
- Cynthia Myers is known for This Is the Disk-O-Boyz (1999).
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Donald Novis was born on 3 March 1906 in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Big Broadcast (1932), The Policy Girl (1934) and Trouble in Paradise (1932). He was married to Dorothy Bradshaw and Julietta Novis. He died on 23 July 1966 in Norwalk, California, USA.Plot: Ashes in vaultage- Actress
- Writer
Laura Oakley was born on 10 July 1879 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Black Box (1915), The Romance of a Photograph (1914) and Shackles (1916). She was married to Frank Newburg and Milton Moore. She died on 30 January 1957 in Altadena, California, USA.Plot: Mausoleum AN 12- Scott Peters was born on 12 July 1930 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Madmen of Mandoras (1963), The Girl Hunters (1963) and They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968). He was married to Susan. He died on 15 January 1994 in Monterey Park, California, USA.Plot: Vaultage
- Maudie Prickett was born on 25 October 1914 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for Hazel (1961), The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955) and The Jack Benny Program (1950). She was married to Cyril Bernard Cooper, Eakle W. Cartwright and Charles Fillmore Prickett II. She died on 14 April 1976 in Pasadena, California, USA.Plot: Mt. View Mausoleum, Niche PE 27
- Frank Baxter was born on 25 March 1922 in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Columbo (1971), The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969) and Kraft Theatre (1947). He was married to Renée Taylor. He died on 17 October 2009 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson was born to a family of sharecroppers on July 18, 1912 in Cairo, Georgia. The older brother of legendary Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson, Mack and his siblings were raised by their mother Mallie Robinson after they were left fatherless at an early age. The Robinson family eventually moved to Pasadena, California. Mack first established himself as a promising athlete by setting national junior college records in the men's 100 meters, men's 200 meters, and men's long jump while a student at Pasadena Junior College. Robinson earned a spot on the Olympic team for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany after placing second in the 200 meters at the United States Olympic trials and went on to win the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics by finishing second in the same event right behind Jesse Owens.
In the wake of his Olympic triumph Mack set a national junior college record in the men's long jump in 1937 as well as won both the national and Amateur Athletic Union track titles at the University of Oregon in 1938. However, Robinson dropped out of college in his senior year so he could return home and support his family back in Pasadena, where he was reduced to sweeping downtown streets with a broom while wearing his Olympic sweatshirt with USA written on the front. Alas, Mack lost this particular job after the city of Pasadena fired all of its black workers in retaliation over an order made by a judge to desegregate public pools that were discriminating against blacks.
Fortunately, Robinson was able to still graduate from the University of Oregon in 1941 and went on to work as both an usher at Dodger Stadium and as a truant officer for John Muir High School in Pasadena. In 1984 Mack was one of several athletes chosen to carry a giant Olympic flag into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the opening ceremony for the 1984 Olympics. In 1997 both Robinson and his brother Jackie were honored with nine foot tall bronze sculptures of their heads in Centennial Plaza located right across the street from city hall in Pasadena. In addition, Mack was inducted into both the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the University of Oregon Hall of Fame. Robinson died at age 85 at a hospital in Pasadena on March 12, 2000. He was survived by his wife Delano, their three sons and three daughters, a son and daughter from previous marriages, twenty-five grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren. - Hugh Sanders was born on 13 March 1911 in East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for That's My Boy (1951), The Outer Limits (1963) and Storm Warning (1950). He was married to Janet Bernice Putnam and Dorothy F Allsup. He died on 9 January 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Pompeian Court, map 42, Crypt #45
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
The son of a famous architect, California-born and -educated Mal St.Clair worked as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Express before his first movie job as an extra and gagman at Keystone in 1915. After service in World War I, he returned to the film business, this time as a director alternating between Fox and Mack Sennett. He proved to have a talent for slapstick farce, as well as for elegant domestic comedy, but could also handle action films. Moreover, when the occasion demanded, he was able to keep a tight reign on some of Hollywood's more temperamental movie queens: Pola Negri in A Woman of the World (1925), Clara Bow in The Fleet's In (1928), Joan Crawford in Montana Moon (1930), and others.
His most fruitful collaborations were with Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton in the 1920s. One of his best films with Keaton was The Goat (1921), a break-neck farce based on mistaken identity. He also produced the hit social comedies Are Parents People? (1925) and The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926). Of the latter, Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times (2/9/26) commented that "dull moments" were "conspicuous by their absence". Mal directed an early version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928), but no copies of this film are known to have survived. One of his notable non-comedic efforts was the Philo Vance mystery The Canary Murder Case (1929), which starred William Powell, Jean Arthur and Lupe Velez, and which won critical plaudits for the director. The New York Times commented (March 11,1929) "his flashes of the canary swinging on a trapeze in a theatre are so excellent that they bring to mind the photographic feats in Variety".
St. Clair's career began to falter with the advent of sound, but was somewhat reinvigorated with the all-star Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), for which he directed the Keystone Kops chase sequences. Between 1943 and 1945 he presided over four Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy features when the team left Roach and MGM for 20th Century-Fox, but the studio's attempt to revive the great slapstick comedies of the 1920s was spectacularly unsuccessful. After that his output declined somewhat, except for a few minor films he made for Sol M. Wurtzel's B-unit.
At 6'3" (some accounts say 6'7"), St. Clair had the distinction of being known as "the tallest director in Hollywood".Plot: Chapel of The Gardens Mausoleum- Ray Vitte was born on 20 November 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for 9 to 5 (1980), Up in Smoke (1978) and Cruising (1980). He was married to Ernesta F. Gomez. He died on 20 February 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Vista Del Monte Gardens Mausoleum, crypt #528E
- William Wagner is known for Great Performances (1971) and Dido & Aeneas (1995).Plot: Sunset Lawn, L-951, space 4