About Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a memorial park near Burbank, Los Angeles County, California. It lies about 2.4 mi north of Burbank. The grounds sit at about 568 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 793 notable people buried here, including Bette Davis, Buster Keaton and Paul Walker. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 242364. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Sinai Memorial Park, about 0.4 mi to the northeast. The nearest mortuary we know of is Forest Lawn Mortuary in Burbank, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 101 cemeteries we list in Los Angeles County, and 14 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Los Angeles County dates to 1860. 20 of the 101 listings in Los Angeles County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Burbank. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Among them: 461 actors, 168 musicians, 120 writers, 38 World War II veterans, 21 artists, 19 business leaders, 16 journalists, 13 World War I veterans.
- Bette Davis1908-1989American actress
- Buster Keaton1895-1966American actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Paul Walker1973-2013American actor
- Matthew Perry1969-2023American-Canadian actor
- Michael Clarke Duncan1957-2012American actor
- Debbie Reynolds1932-2016American actress, singer, and dancer
- Carl David Anderson1905-1991American physicist
- Lucille Ball1911-1989American actress
- Ernest Borgnine1917-2012American actor
- Fritz Lang1890-1976Austrian filmmaker
- Garry Marshall1934-2016American actor and filmmaker
- Ronnie James Dio1942-2010American heavy metal singer
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- Brittany Murphy1977-2009American actress and singer
- Lemmy1945-2015British rock musician
- Jack LaLanne1914-2011American exercise instructor
- Bill Paxton1955-2017American actor and filmmaker
- Charles Laughton1899-1962British-American actor
- Penny Marshall1943-2018American actress, director and producer
- Bob Newhart1929-2024American stand-up comedian and actor
- James Garner1928-2014American film and television actor
- Stan Laurel1890-1965English actor
- Rod Steiger1925-2002American actor
- Lee Van Cleef1925-1989American actor
- David Carradine1936-2009American actor
- Eleanor Parker1922-2013American actress
- Telly Savalas1922-1994American film and television actor and singer
- George Stevens1904-1975American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
- Bob Barker1923-2023American game show host
- Miklós Rózsa1907-1995Hungarian-American composer
- Ricky Nelson1940-1985American musician and actor
- Warren Christopher1925-2011U.S. Secretary of State
- Bill Withers1938-2020American musician
- Rod Taylor1930-2015Australian actor
- Bob Kane1915-1998American comic book artist, the co-creator of Batman
- Donald O'Connor1925-2003American dancer, singer, and actor
- Fred Willard1933-2020American actor and comedian
- Gene Autry1907-1998American actor and singer
- Al Jarreau1940-2017American jazz and pop singer
- Aaron Carter1987-2022American pop singer, actor and songwriter
- Elgin Baylor1934-2021American basketball player, coach, and executive
- Liberace1919-1987American pianist
- Marty Feldman1934-1982British author, actor, comedian and director
- Ub Iwerks1901-1971American animator and special effects pioneer
- Dorothy Lamour1914-1996American actress and singer
- Michael Ansara1922-2013American stage, screen, and voice actor
- Michael Chekhov1891-1955Russian actor and director
- Richard Farnsworth1920-2000American actor
- Sandra Dee1942-2005American actress and model
- George Raft1901-1980American actor
- Robert Aldrich1918-1983American film director
- Solomon Burke1940-2010American singer
- Judith Barsi1978-1988American child actress
- Rodney King1965-2012African American police brutality victim
- Tex Avery1908-1980American animator and director
- Roy O. Disney1893-1971American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company
- Julie London1926-2000American actress and singer
- Paul Winfield1939-2004American actor
- Tito Jackson1953-2024American musician
- John Singleton1968-2019American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Ralph Bellamy1904-1991American actor
- Scott Wilson1942-2018American actor
- John Ritter1948-2003American actor
- John Wooden1910-2010American basketball coach
- Michael Hutchence1960-1997Australian singer
- Edward Dmytryk1908-1999American film director
- Andy Gibb1958-1988British singer
- Barbara Hale1922-2017American actress
- Nipsey Hussle1985-2019American rapper
- Albert R. Broccoli1909-1996American film producer
- Steve Allen1921-2000American actor, comedian, musician and presenter
- Ann Harding1902-1981American actress
- Edie Adams1927-2008American actress, comedian, singer, and businesswoman
- Lloyd Bacon1889-1955Actor, director
- Ray Brown1926-2002American jazz musician
- Scatman Crothers1910-1986American entertainer
- Brad Davis1949-1991American actor
- Josh Ryan Evans1982-2002American actor
- Laraine Day1920-2007American actress
- Marjorie Main1890-1975US actress
- Martha Hyer1924-2014American actress
- William Conrad1920-1994American actor and director
- James Ingram1952-2019American singer-songwriter and record producer
- Annette Funicello1942-2013American actress and singer
- Buck Henry1930-2020American actor
- George Duke1946-2013American musician
- Lou Rawls1933-2006American singer
- Mary Anderson1918-2014American actress
- Walter Lantz1899-1994American animator
- Sabu Dastagir1924-1963Actor
- Serge Lang1927-2005French-American mathematician
- Tom Bosley1927-2010American actor
- Brock Peters1922-2005American actor
- Dan Duryea1907-1968American actor
- Kelly Johnson1910-1990American aerospace engineer
- Richard Marquand1937-1987British film director
- Hal David1921-2012American poet and lyricist
- Ilene Woods1929-2010American actress and singer
- Jeff Porcaro1954-1992American drummer
- Jimmy Bain1947-2016Scottish bassist
- Mary Kay Bergman1961-1999American voice actress
- Philip Ahn1905-1978Korean-American actor
- Stephen J. Cannell1941-2010American television producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actor, and the founder of Cannell Entertainment
- Tony Jay1933-2006British actor
- André de Toth1913-2002Hungarian-born American film director
- Joy Page1924-2008American actress
- Keely Smith1928-2017American singer
- Leon Ames1902-1993American actor
- Mary Brian1906-2002American actress
- Noah Beery Jr.1913-1994American actor
- Noah Beery, Sr.1882-1946American actor
- Bob Hastings1925-2014American actor
- Charles Jarrott1927-2011British film and television director
- Glenn Quinn1970-2002Irish actor
- Jack Teagarden1905-1964American jazz trombonist and singer
- Jerry Pournelle1933-2017American science fiction writer, journalist, and scientist
- Joel Goldsmith1957-2012American composer of film, television, and video game music
- Edgar Buchanan1903-1979American actor
- Ernie Kovacs1919-1962American comedian, actor, and writer
- Isabel Sanford1917-2004American actress
- Janet Waldo1919-2016American actress
- Jayne Meadows1919-2015Chinese born-American actress and author
- Jean Parker1915-2005American actress
- Marie Wilson1916-1972American actress
- McLean Stevenson1927-1996American actor
- Otto Kruger1885-1974American actor
- Bill Williams1915-1992American actor
- Christopher Connelly1941-1988American actor
- Jack Webb1920-1982American actor, producer, director, and writer
- Jess Willard1881-1968American boxer
- Mike Porcaro1955-2015American bassist
- Neal Hefti1922-2008American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger
- Ralph Meeker1920-1988American actor
- Ray Collins1889-1965American actor
- Roger Smith1932-2017American actor, film producer and screenwriter
- Ruth St. Denis1879-1968American dancer
- Strother Martin1919-1980American actor
- Tyrus Wong1910-2016Chinese-American artist
- Barbara Perry1921-2019American actress
- Bob Steele1907-1988American actor
- Buddy Van Horn1929-2021American stunt coordinator and film director
- Dick Van Patten1928-2015American actor
- Freddie Prinze1954-1977American actor and comedian
- Glenn Strange1899-1973American actor
- Iris Adrian1912-1994American actress
- Joseph Mascolo1929-2016American actor
- Mona Freeman1926-2014American actress
- Philip Carey1925-2009United States Marine and actor
- Reta Shaw1912-1982American actress
- Snub Pollard1889-1962Australian actor
- Bob Clampett1913-1984American animator
- Bobby Troup1918-1999American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter
- Clyde Beatty1903-1965American circus performer
- Esther Phillips1935-1984American singer
- Forrest Tucker1919-1986American actor
- Gale Robbins1921-1980American singer, and actress
- George "Gabby" Hayes1885-1969American actor
- Jerome Cowan1897-1972American actor
- Jerry Buss1933-2013American businessman and real estate investor
- Jerry Maren1920-2018American actor
- Leon Shamroy1901-1974American cinematographer
- Lillian Randolph1898-1980American actress
- Louise Lorraine1901-1981Actress
- Richard Bakalyan1931-2015American actor
- Shelly Manne1920-1984American jazz drummer
- Wanda Hendrix1928-1981American actress
- Art Babbitt1907-1992American animator
- Arthur Lee1945-2006American rock musician
- Bill Peet1915-2002Artist, illustrator, author, animator and story teller
- Carroll Nye1901-1974Actor
- Crane Wilbur1886-1973American actor, film writer, director
- Jeffrey Lynn1909-1995American actor
- Joyce Compton1907-1997American film actress
- Kasey Rogers1925-2006American actress
- Kelly Asbury1960-2020American animated film director
- Phillips Smalley1865-1939American actor and film director
- Robert Florey1900-1979French-born American director
- Rodolfo Acosta1920-1974Mexican character actor
- Al Ruscio1924-2013Actor
- Angelo Rossitto1908-1991American actor
- Bert Remsen1925-1999American film actor and casting director
- Betty Francisco1900-1950American actress
- Billy West1892-1975American actor and film director
- Boris Sagal1923-1981American director, television producer
- Charles Winninger1884-1969Actor
- David Swift1919-2001American director and producer
- Doris Singleton1919-2012American actress
- Eve Miller1923-1973American actress
- Floyd Gottfredson1905-1986American cartoonist
- Jack Hannah1913-1994American animator
- Jason Robards1892-1963American actor
- Jay Robinson1930-2013American actor
- Jean Porter1922-2018American actress
- John Carroll1906-1979American actor
- Jon Hall1915-1979American actor
- June Lang1917-2005American actress
- Lamont Bentley1973-2005American actor
- Martha Tilton1915-2006American singer
- Meshach Taylor1947-2014American actor
- Nicolette Larson1952-1997American singer
- Reginald Denny1891-1967British actor, aviator and businessman
- Rex Ingram1895-1969American actor (1895/1903-1969)
- Robert Francis1930-1955American actor
- Roy Campanella1921-1993American baseball player
- Sandy West1959-2006American singer, songwriter, and drummer
- Smiley Burnette1911-1967American country music performer and comedic actor
- Vic Tayback1930-1990American actor
- Virginia Carroll1913-2009American actress
- Christopher Mayer1954-2011American actor
- Dorothy Revier1904-1993American actress
- Edmund Mortimer1874-1944Actor
- Eric Larson1905-1988American animator
- Frank Mayo1886-1963American actor
- Frankie Carle1903-2001American pianist and bandleader
- George Zucco1886-1960British actor
- Harriet Nelson1909-1994American actress and singer
- Jack Kehoe1934-2020American actor
- Leslie Brooks1922-2011American actress
- Mickey Jones1941-2018American rock drummer and film actor
- Pamela Britton1923-1974American actress and singer
- Paul Panzer1872-1958German-American silent film actor
- Porter Hall1888-1953American actor
- Raymond St. Jacques1930-1990American actor
- Reed Hadley1911-1974American actor
- Richard Benedict1920-1984American actor
- Vesta Williams1957-2011American R&B singer
- Victor Milner1893-1972American cinematographer
- Allyn Joslyn1901-1981Actor
- Arnold Kegel1894-1972American gynecologist
- Don "Red" Barry1912-1980American actor
- Frank De Vol1911-1999American composer and arranger
- George Savalas1924-1985American actor
- Lance LeGault1935-2012Actor
- Norman Krasna1909-1984American dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
- Orry-Kelly1897-1964Australian costume designer
- Ozzie Nelson1906-1975Actor, band leader, television producer and director
- Pauline Curley1903-2000Vaudeville and silent film actress from Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
- Queenie Smith1898-1978American actress
- Red Nichols1905-1965American jazz musician
- Richard Whorf1906-1966American actor, director and author
- Simon Monjack1970-2010British writer, director and producer
- Tara Correa-McMullen1989-2005American actress
- Thurston Hall1882-1958Actor
- Timothy Patrick Murphy1959-1988American actor
- William Campbell1923-2011American actor
- William Talman1915-1968American actor
- Willie Bobo1934-1983American jazz percussionist
- Arthur Edeson1891-1970American cinematographer
- Bobby Fuller1942-1966American rock musician
- Charley Rogers1887-1956British actor, film director and screenwriter
- Don Drysdale1936-1993American baseball player
- Don Ellis1934-1978American jazz musician
- Fred Moore1911-1952American animator
- Gail Davis1925-1997American actress and horseback rider
- Gary Crosby1933-1995American actor and singer
- Godfrey Cambridge1933-1976American stand-up comedian
- Heather North1945-2017American actress
- Jack Starrett1936-1989American actor
- John Lounsbery1911-1976American animator
- Ken Darby1909-1992American composer
- Melvin Franklin1942-1995American bass singer
- Norman Whitfield1940-2008American songwriter, record producer
- Philo McCullough1893-1981American film actor
- Reginald Gardiner1903-1980Actor
- Rich Piana1970-2017American bodybuilder and Internet personality/entrepreneur
- Robert Clarke1920-2005American actor
- Roberta Collins1944-2008American actress
- Susanne Cramer1936-1969German actress
- Winrich Kolbe1940-2012American film director
- Yvette Lebon1910-2014French actress
- Bud Osborne1884-1964American actor
- Chet Brandenburg1897-1974Film actor
- Clare Fischer1928-2012American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
- Dar Robinson1947-1986American stunt performer and actor
- Fred Stone1873-1959American actor
- Georg Steindorff1861-1951German Egyptologist
- George Sherman1908-1991Film director
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams1899-1962American actor
- James Day Hodgson1915-2012Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
- Jimmy Wakely1914-1982American actor, songwriter, country Western music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys
- Larry Walters1949-1993Lawnchair balloon pilot
- Lewis Nixon III1918-1995United States Army officer
- Mildred Burke1915-1989American professional wrestler
- Morey Amsterdam1908-1996American actor and comedian
- Parley Baer1914-2002American actor
- Spencer Gordon Bennet1893-1987American film director and producer
- Sybil Jason1927-2011American actress
- Wesley Lau1921-1984American actor
- Zola Taylor1938-2007American musician
- Alfred J. Goulding1885-1972American film director
- Alphonse Mouzon1948-2016American musician
- Ann Codee1890-1961American-Belgian actress
- Carey Loftin1914-1997American actor
- Charles Trowbridge1882-1967Actor
- Claire Whitney1890-1969American stage actor
- Don Alvarado1900-1967American actor, assistant film director, and film production manager
- Frank de Kova1910-1981Actor
- Jack Perrin1896-1967American actor
- Johnny Sekka1934-2006Gambian-English actor
- Joseph Kearns1907-1962American actor
- Maria Palmer1917-1981Stage and film actress
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Lawn Memorial Park as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
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What Forest Lawn Memorial Park offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Mount Sinai Memorial ParkBurbank, CAMemorial park0.4 mi
- Grand View Memorial ParkBurbank, CAMemorial park2.9 mi
- Valhalla Memorial ParkBurbank, CAMemorial park3.6 mi
- Brand Family GravesiteBurbank, CACemetery3.9 mi
- Hollywood Forever CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery4.1 mi
- Beth Olam CemeteryLos Angeles, CAJewish cemetery4.1 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park1712 Glendale Avenue, Glendale, CA · est. 1906Memorial park4.7 mi
- Angelus Rosedale CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery7.4 mi
- Rosedale CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery7.4 mi
- Campo SantoLos Angeles, CACemetery7.9 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Forest Lawn Mortuary0.3 miMortuary · Burbank
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park and Mortuaries0.4 miMortuary · Los Angeles · (323) 469-6000
- Valley Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Burbank · (818) 845-3766
- River Ash Funerals and Cremations2.6 miCremation provider · Burbank · (818) 571-7456
- Valley Memorial Funeral Services2.8 miFuneral home · Los Angeles · (818) 939-0909
- National Cremation Service3.4 miCremation provider · North Hollywood · (818) 658-2421
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