Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California
About Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a memorial park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1906. The grounds sit at about 489 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 1,386 notable people buried here, including Michael Jackson, Walt Disney and Elizabeth Taylor. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 242366. The nearest other listed cemetery is Grand View Memorial Park, about 3.8 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Ashes To Ashes Cremation in Los Angeles, about 0.9 mi away. It is one of 101 cemeteries we list in Los Angeles County, and 28 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.
Notable people buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Among them: 655 actors, 266 writers, 179 musicians, 57 artists, 49 business leaders, 35 World War II veterans, 30 architects, 24 journalists.
- Michael Jackson1958-2009American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
- Walt Disney1901-1966American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company
- Elizabeth Taylor1932-2011British-American actress
- Humphrey Bogart1899-1957American actor
- Carrie Fisher1956-2016American actress, writer and screenwriter
- Clark Gable1901-1960American actor
- Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953American physicist
- Lauren Bacall1924-2014American actress
- Mary Pickford1892-1979Canadian actress and producer
- James Stewart1908-1997American actor and military officer
- Spencer Tracy1900-1967American actor
- Paramahansa Yogananda1893-1952Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
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- Errol Flynn1909-1959Australian actor
- Nat King Cole1919-1965American singer and jazz pianist
- Theodore Dreiser1871-1945American novelist and journalist
- Harold Lloyd1893-1971American actor and comedian
- L. Frank Baum1856-1919American author of children's books
- Jean Harlow1911-1937American film actress
- William Wyler1902-1981Swiss-German-American director and producer
- Norma Shearer1902-1983Canadian-American actress
- George Cukor1899-1983American film director and producer
- Jennifer Jones1919-2009American actress
- Carole Lombard1908-1942American actress
- Chuck McCann1934-2018American voice actor and comedian
- Ernst Lubitsch1892-1947German-American actor and film director
- Will Rogers1879-1935American humorist and entertainer
- Clara Bow1905-1965American actress
- Natalie Cole1950-2015American singer
- Rex Harrison1908-1990British actor
- Sam Cooke1931-1964American singer and songwriter
- Ida Lupino1918-1995British actress
- Marie Dressler1868-1934Canadian-American actress
- Frank Lloyd1886-1960British film director
- George Burns1896-1996American comedian, actor, writer and singer
- Joseph Barbera1911-2006American animator and cartoonist
- Naya Rivera1987-2020American actress and singer
- Samuel Goldwyn1879-1974Polish-American film producer
- Frank Borzage1894-1962American film director and actor
- Michael Curtiz1886-1962Hungarian-American director
- Vincente Minnelli1903-1986American stage and film director
- Warner Baxter1889-1951American actor
- David O. Selznick1902-1965American film producer
- June Allyson1917-2006American actress
- Jane Darwell1879-1967American actress
- Sammy Davis Jr.1925-1990American entertainer
- Theda Bara1885-1955American actress
- Wallace Beery1885-1949American actor
- Victor McLaglen1886-1959British-American actor
- Dorothy Dandridge1922-1965American actress and singer
- Irving Thalberg1899-1936American film producer
- Lon Chaney1883-1930American actor
- Merle Oberon1911-1979British actress
- W. C. Fields1880-1946American comedian, actor, juggler and writer
- Alan Ladd1913-1964American actor
- Donald Crisp1882-1974English film actor and film director
- Alfred Newman1900-1970American composer
- Max Steiner1888-1971Austrian-born American music composer and conductor
- Robert Taylor1911-1969American actor
- Rouben Mamoulian1897-1987American film and theatre director
- Phil Hartman1948-1998Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter
- Joe Jackson1928-2018American music manager, father of the Jackson family
- Lilli Palmer1914-1986German actress
- Louis L'Amour1908-1988American novelist and short story writer
- Carrie Snodgress1945-2004American actress
- Joan Blondell1906-1979American actress
- King Camp Gillette1855-1932American entrepreneur
- Sam Wood1883-1949Director, producer, actor
- Dick Powell1904-1963American actor
- Gutzon Borglum1867-1941American sculptor
- Hal B. Wallis1899-1986American film producer and art collector
- Mervyn LeRoy1900-1987American film director and producer
- Chico Marx1887-1961American comedian
- Edith Head1897-1981American film and television costumer
- Jeanette MacDonald1903-1965American singer and actress
- Robert Cummings1910-1990American actor
- Alla Nazimova1879-1945Russian-American actress
- Clarence Brown1890-1987American film director
- Ethel Waters1896-1977American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
- John Gilbert1897-1936American actor and film director
- Louise Dresser1878-1965American actress
- Tom Mix1880-1940American film actor
- Dimitri Tiomkin1894-1979Ukrainian and American composer
- Georges Delerue1925-1992French composer
- Gracie Allen1895-1964American actress and entertainer
- Ed Wynn1886-1966American actor
- Ellen Corby1911-1999American actress
- James Arness1923-2011American actor
- James Whale1889-1957British-born American film director
- Nina Foch1924-2008American actress
- Ben Turpin1869-1940American actor
- Carole Landis1919-1948American actress
- Jean Hersholt1886-1956Danish-American actor
- Jim Rohn1930-2009American motivational speaker, businessman and bestseller author
- Martha Hyer1924-2014American actress
- Robert Z. Leonard1889-1968American film director
- Susan Peters1921-1952American actress
- W. S. Van Dyke1889-1943American film director
- Dan Dailey1913-1978American actor, singer and dancer
- Hugh O'Brian1925-2016American actor and United States Marine
- J. Stuart Blackton1875-1941American film producer
- Józef Kazimierz Hofmann1876-1957Polish musician
- Maria Ouspenskaya1876-1949Russian actress
- Red Skelton1913-1997American comedian
- Robert Young1907-1998American actor
- Henry Travers1874-1965British-American actor
- Hermione Gingold1897-1987English actress
- Keenan Wynn1916-1986American actor
- Richard Dix1893-1949American actor
- Russi Taylor1944-2019American voice actress
- Wayne Allwine1947-2009American voice actor
- William Castle1914-1977American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
- Antonio Moreno1887-1967Spanish film actor and director
- Bobby Womack1944-2014American singer and songwriter
- Clifford Odets1906-1963American playwright, screenwriter, and actor
- Delmer Daves1904-1977American film director, producer, and screenwriter
- Edna May Oliver1883-1942American actress
- Jack Conway1887-1952American film director and actor
- Jack Oakie1903-1978American actor
- Madge Bellamy1899-1990American actress
- Sydney Greenstreet1879-1954British-American actor
- Fred Niblo1874-1948American film director
- Lois Wilson1894-1988American actress
- Mary Boland1880-1965American actress
- Wallace Reid1891-1923American actor
- Cathy O'Donnell1923-1970American actress
- Edward Everett Horton1886-1970American actor
- Edward S. Curtis1868-1952American photographer
- Harrison Ford1884-1957American stage and silent film actor
- Jack Carson1910-1963Canadian-born American-based film actor
- Lionel Stander1908-1994American actor in films, radio, theater and television
- Robert Alda1914-1986American actor
- Betty Blythe1893-1972ِAmerican actress
- Billy Barty1924-2000American film actor
- David Butler1894-1979American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director
- Edmund Goulding1891-1959British director and screenwriter
- Frank Tashlin1913-1972American animator and film director
- Harry Beaumont1888-1966American film director, actor, and screenwriter
- J Dilla1974-2006American record producer and rapper
- Jeff Porcaro1954-1992American drummer
- Joe E. Brown1891-1973American actor
- Lillian Copeland1904-1964American athletics competitor (born 1904)
- William Cameron Menzies1896-1957American film production designer and art director
- William Demarest1892-1983Actor
- Anita Louise1915-1970American actress
- Charles Ruggles1886-1970American actor
- Forrest J Ackerman1916-2008American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia
- Fred Quimby1886-1965American film producer
- Gordon Douglas1907-1993American film director
- Jadwiga Barańska1935-2024Polish actor and screenwriter
- Jim Davis1909-1981American actor
- Johnny "Guitar" Watson1935-1996American musician
- Larry Fine1902-1975American comedian and actor, one of the Three Stooges
- Rex Ingram1892-1950Irish film director
- Richard F. Outcault1863-1928American cartoonist
- Ted Wilde1889-1929American film director, screenwriter
- Wesley Ruggles1889-1972American film director
- Anita Stewart1895-1961American actress, film producer
- Bess Meredyth1890-1969Film actress, Film writer
- Betty Bronson1906-1971American actress
- Charley Chase1893-1940Actor, comedian, director, writer
- Elsie Janis1889-1956American actress
- Francis X. Bushman1883-1966American actor, director, and writer
- Gummo Marx1892-1977American comedian
- John M. Stahl1886-1950American film director and producer
- Johnston McCulley1883-1958American writer
- Minta Durfee1889-1975American actress
- Olive Borden1906-1947American actress
- Bruno Frank1887-1945German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist
- Claire Windsor1892-1972American actress
- Dwight Frye1899-1943Actor
- Frank Churchill1901-1942American composer
- Genevieve Tobin1899-1995American actress
- Harry Myers1882-1938American actor
- Jack Pickford1896-1933Canadian-American actor
- John Qualen1899-1987Canadian-American actor of Norwegian origin
- Lawrence Tibbett1896-1960American opera singer
- Lucille Ricksen1910-1925American child actress
- Mary Eaton1901-1948American actress
- Mildred Davis1901-1969American actress
- Monte Blue1887-1963American actor
- Patrice Wymore1926-2014American actress and singer
- Ross Alexander1907-1937American actor
- Rupert Julian1879-1943Hollywood Director and Actor
- Warren William1894-1948Broadway and Hollywood actor
- Alice Davenport1864-1936American actress
- Allen Garfield1939-2020American actor
- Binnie Barnes1903-1998English actress
- Charley Grapewin1869-1956American actor
- Clara Blandick1876-1962American actress
- James Stephenson1889-1941British-American actor
- Julie Bishop1914-2001American actress
- Mary Wells1943-1992American pop/soul singer
- Russell Simpson1880-1959American actor
- Ted Knight1923-1986American actor
- Alfred Edward Green1889-1960American film director
- Alice Calhoun1900-1966American silent film actress
- Art Acord1890-1931American silent film actor, stuntman, ranch hand
- Celeste Yarnall1944-2018American actress
- Clayton Moore1914-1999American actor
- Dennis O'Keefe1908-1968American actor
- Erle C. Kenton1896-1980Film director
- Gus Kahn1886-1941German-American lyricist
- Hamilton Luske1903-1968American film director
- James Parrott1897-1939American actor and director
- Joseph Strauss1870-1938American structural engineer
- Lloyd C. Douglas1877-1951American novelist
- Lowell Sherman1888-1934Actor, director
- Mike Mazurki1907-1990American actor and professional wrestler
- Priscilla Dean1896-1987American actress
- Terry Kath1946-1978American guitarist and singer
- Vang Pao1929-2011Laotian-American soldier and former drug smuggler
- Victor Schertzinger1888-1941American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter
- Aimee Semple McPherson1890-1944Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity
- Alan Hale1892-1950Actor, film director
- Ann Little1891-1984Actress
- Billie Dove1903-1997American silent film actress; aviator
- Curtis Bernhardt1899-1981German film director
- Doris Kenyon1897-1979American actress
- Gene Reynolds1923-2020American actor, producer, writer, director
- George Fitzmaurice1885-1940American film director
- George Irving1874-1961American actor, director
- George Nichols1864-1927American actor and film director
- Harry A. Pollard1879-1934American actor, film director, screenwriter
- Holmes Herbert1882-1956British actor
- Johnny Burnette1934-1964American musician
- Johnny Mack Brown1904-1974American football player and actor
- Junior Durkin1915-1935American actor
- Laird Cregar1913-1944American stage and film actor
- Lillian Disney1899-1997American artist and philanthropist
- Mary MacLaren1896-1985American film actress
- Polly Moran1883-1952Actress, vaudevillian
- Sid Grauman1879-1950American showman
- Vincent Bugliosi1934-2015American lawyer and true crime writer
- Charles Stanton Ogle1865-1940Actor
- Diane Disney Miller1933-2013Daughter of Walt Disney and Lillian Disney
- Dorothy Davenport1895-1977American actress
- Elmer Clifton1890-1949American film director
- George Chandler1898-1985American film and television actor
- Hank Worden1901-1992American actor
- Harold Smith1909-1958Diver
- Harry Kerr1879-1951New Zealand athlete
- Helen Ferguson1900-1977American actress
- Herbert Stothart1885-1949American composer
- Hobart Bosworth1867-1943American film actor, director, writer, and producer
- James Craig1912-1985Actor
- Jetta Goudal1891-1985Actress
- Lurene Tuttle1907-1986American actress
- Mala Powers1931-2007American actress
- Norman Z. McLeod1895-1964American film director
- Otto Lederer1886-1965Czech-American actor
- Rand Brooks1918-2003Actor and rancher
- Robert Frazer1891-1944American actor
- Rudolf Friml1879-1972Czech composer
- Ruth Roland1892-1937American actress
- S. Z. Sakall1883-1955Hungarian actor
- Sue Carol1906-1982American actress, talent agent
- William Boyd1895-1972American actor
- William Farnum1876-1953American actor
- Adela Rogers St. Johns1894-1988American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter
- Al Taliaferro1905-1969American comics artist
- Alphonzo Bell1875-1947US oil millionaire and tennis player
- Betty Francisco1900-1950American actress
- Blossom Rock1895-1978American actress
- Buddy Adler1909-1960Film producer
- Casey Stengel1890-1975American baseball player, coach, and manager
- Charles Brabin1882-1957British-American film director
- Christy Cabanne1888-1950American film director, screenwriter and actor
- Dale Fuller1885-1948American actress
- Doris Lloyd1896-1968British actress
- Edmund Breese1871-1936American actor
- Ella Hall1897-1981Actress
- Florence Bates1888-1954American actress; lawyer
- Gene Raymond1908-1998Actor, singer, composer, producer, director
- Helen Holmes1892-1950American actress
- Henry Kolker1870-1947American actor and film director
- Ida May Park1879-1954Screenwriter, Film director
- James W. Horne1881-1942American actor, screenwriter and film director
- Jan Styka1858-1925Polish artist
- Jimmy MacDonald1906-1991British actor
- Joe Besser1907-1988American actor and comedian
- Joe Grant1908-2005American animator
- John Ridgely1909-1968American actor
- Kim Shattuck1963-2019American singer, musician, and songwriter
- Marian Nixon1904-1983Actress
- Michu Meszaros1939-2016Hungarian actor
- Ralph Edwards1913-2005Radio and television host and producer
- Rowland V. Lee1891-1975Film director
- Sybil Seely1900-1984American actress
- Ursula Thiess1924-2010German actress
- W. R. Burnett1899-1982Novelist, screenwriter
- William Daniels1901-1970American cinematographer
- William Keighley1889-1984American actor and film director
- Alan Roscoe1886-1933American actor
- Arnold Ehret1866-1922American medical researcher
- Berton Churchill1876-1940Canadian actor
- Beryl Mercer1882-1939Actress
- Carol Dempster1901-1991American actress
- Carter DeHaven1886-1977Actor, director, writer
- Clara Ward1924-1973American gospel singer
- David Dukes1945-2000American character actor
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.
Map
34.12438, -118.24519
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
- Grand View Memorial ParkBurbank, CAMemorial park3.8 mi
- Mount Sinai Memorial ParkBurbank, CAMemorial park4.5 mi
- Campo SantoLos Angeles, CACemetery4.7 mi
- Brand Family GravesiteBurbank, CACemetery4.7 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial ParkBurbank, CAMemorial park4.7 mi
- Hollywood Forever CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery4.9 mi
- Beth Olam CemeteryLos Angeles, CAJewish cemetery5.1 mi
- Rosedale CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery6.4 mi
- Evergreen Cemetery204 Evergreen Ave, Los Angeles, CA · est. 1877Cemetery6.4 mi
- Angelus Rosedale CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery6.4 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Ashes To Ashes Cremation0.9 miCremation provider · Los Angeles · (323) 644-3323
- Honest Funeral Consulting0.9 miFuneral home · Los Angeles · (818) 934-8177
- Los Angeles Funeral Service1.1 miFuneral home · Los Angeles · (323) 660-1815
- Glendale Hye Funeral Services1.2 miFuneral home · Glendale · (818) 247-8860
- Glendale Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Glendale · (818) 242-0258
- Monarch Funeral Services1.6 miFuneral home · Glendale · (818) 309-0303
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Forest Lawn Memorial Park located?
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is at 1712 Glendale Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205 in Los Angeles County. GPS coordinates: 34.12438, -118.24519.
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