About Hillside Memorial Park
Hillside Memorial Park is a memorial park near Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. It lies about 2.5 mi southeast of Inglewood. The grounds sit at about 46 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 235 notable people buried here, including Larry King, Leonard Nimoy and Quincy Jones. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 243478. The nearest other listed cemetery is Holy Cross Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the northeast. The nearest mortuary we know of is Holy Cross Cemetery & Mortuary in Culver City, about 1.0 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, Inglewood. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Hillside Memorial Park
Among them: 88 actors, 64 writers, 48 musicians, 19 business leaders, 13 World War II veterans, 10 journalists, 6 baseball players, 5 artists.
- Larry King1933-2021American television and radio host
- Leonard Nimoy1931-2015American actor
- Quincy Jones1933-2024American record producer and composer
- Shelley Winters1920-2006American actress
- Cyd Charisse1922-2008American dancer and actress
- Jerry Goldsmith1929-2004American film composer
- Suzanne Pleshette1937-2008American actress
- Burt Bacharach1928-2023American pianist, composer, producer
- Ruth Handler1916-2002American businesswoman
- Jack Benny1894-1974American comedic entertainer
- Al Jolson1886-1950American entertainer, actor, and singer
- Eddie Cantor1892-1964American comedian and actor
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- Michael Landon1936-1991American actor and filmmaker
- Milton Berle1908-2002American comedian and actor
- Peggy Lipton1946-2019American actress and singer
- Richard Brooks1912-1992American screenwriter, film director and producer
- Jon Landau1960-2024American film producer
- Aaron Spelling1923-2006American film and television producer
- Rhonda Fleming1923-2020American actress
- David Janssen1931-1980American actor
- Stan Winston1946-2008American special effects artist
- Jeff Chandler1918-1961American actor and singer
- Theodore Bikel1924-2015Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist
- Henry Bergman1868-1946American actor
- Andrew Breitbart1969-2012American writer and publisher
- Friz Freleng1906-1995American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer
- Gene Barry1919-2009American stage, screen, and television actor
- Lorne Greene1915-1987Canadian actor, musician, singer, and radio personality
- Lupita Tovar1910-2016Mexican actress
- Tony Martin1913-2012American actor and singer
- Mike Bloomfield1943-1981American blues guitarist
- Moe Howard1897-1975American comedian and actor
- Charlotte Rae1926-2018American actress
- Connie Sawyer1912-2018American actress
- Eydie Gormé1928-2013American pop singer, chanteuse, comic actress
- Arthur Freed1894-1973American lyricist and Hollywood film producer
- George Sidney1916-2002American film director and producer
- Irving Wallace1916-1990American writer
- Jerry Weintraub1937-2015American film producer and former chairman and CEO of United Artists
- Maria Altmann1916-2011Filed successful lawsuit against government of Austria for return of family artwork plundered by the Nazis
- Nell Carter1948-2003American actress and singer
- Joanna Moore1934-1997American actress
- Susan Cabot1927-1986American actress
- Deborah Raffin1953-2012Actress from the United States
- Max Factor1872-1938American businessman
- Percy Faith1908-1976Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor
- Shelley Berman1925-2017American comedian, actor, writer, and teacher
- Corey Allen1934-2010American film & TV director and actor
- Jerry Rubin1938-1994American activist
- Julia Phillips1944-2002American film producer and author
- Julius J. Epstein1909-2000American screenwriter
- Robert B. Sherman1925-2012American songwriter
- Daniel Mann1912-1991American stage, film and television director
- Sheldon Leonard1907-1997American actor, producer, director, and writer
- Joseph Ruttenberg1889-1983American journalist and cinematographer
- Mickey Cohen1913-1976American criminal
- Monty Hall1921-2017Canadian radio and television show host
- Philip G. Epstein1909-1952American screenwriter
- Howard Morris1919-2005American actor
- Sorrell Booke1930-1994American actor
- Hank Greenberg1911-1986Baseball outfielder
- Konrad Tom1887-1957Polish Jewish actor, writer, singer and director
- Marion Byron1911-1985American actress
- Sam Zimbalist1904-1958American film producer and film editor
- Tom Poston1921-2007American actor
- Abby Mann1927-2008American screenwriter and producer
- DJ AM1973-2009American disc jockey
- Gilbert Cates1934-2011American film director and television producer
- Larry Gelbart1928-2009American comedy writer and playwright
- Leo Robin1900-1984American composer, lyricist and songwriter
- Lew Wasserman1913-2002American studio executive and talent agent
- Sol Lesser1890-1980American film producer
- David Opatoshu1918-1996American actor
- Don Payne1964-2013American screenwriter and film producer
- George Jessel1898-1981American actor, singer, songwriter, film producer
- Irving Reis1906-1953American film director
- Joe Pasternak1901-1991Hungarian film producer
- Van Alexander1915-2015American bandleader, arranger, and composer
- Allan Sherman1924-1973American musician and comedian
- Dan Seymour1915-1993American actor
- Danny Dayton1923-1999American actor, television director
- Dick Shawn1923-1987American actor
- Arthur Gardner1910-2014Producer and actor from the United States
- Arthur P. Jacobs1922-1973Press agent
- Hal March1920-1970Actor, comedian and game show host
- James Goldstone1931-1999American film and television director
- Julius Shulman1910-2009American photographer
- Valentine Davies1905-1961Film director, screenwriter
- Brad Grey1957-2017American film and television producer
- Elliot Handler1916-2011American businessman
- Frank Bank1942-2013American actor
- Henryk Wars1902-1977Polish Jewish composer
- John Davidson1886-1968Actor
- Lawrence Weingarten1897-1975American film producer
- Pandro S. Berman1905-1996American film producer
- Paul Francis Webster1907-1984American lyricist
- Ralph E. Winters1909-2004Canadian film editor
- Samuel Bischoff1890-1975Film producer
- Sherwood Schwartz1916-2011American television writer and producer
- Ben Blue1901-1975Canadian-American actor and comedian
- John Bleifer1901-1992American actor
- Norman Panama1914-2003American film director and screenwriter
- Sammi Kane Kraft1992-2012Actress, musician
- Sandy Baron1936-2001American actor
- Selma Diamond1920-1985Comedian, writer
- Sheldon Allman1924-2002American-Canadian actor, singer and songwriter
- Stanley Ralph Ross1935-2000American actor and screenwriter
- Trudy Marshall1920-2004American actress
- Benny Rubin1899-1986Actor and comedian
- Jan Murray1916-2006American actor and comedian
- Louis Nye1913-2005American actor
- Mary Livingstone1905-1983American actress
- Neil Bogart1943-1982American record producer
- Samuel Hoffenstein1890-1947American screenwriter
- Sol C. Siegel1903-1982American film producer
- Aaron Rosenberg1912-1979All-American college football player, film producer
- Edwin Spanier1921-1996American mathematician
- Gogi Grant1924-2016American pop music singer
- Herb Magidson1906-1986American popular lyricist
- László Kardos1905-1962Hungarian film director
- Norm Crosby1927-2020American comedian
- Poldek Pfefferberg1913-2001Polish-American Holocaust survivor
- Ted Berman1919-2001American film director
- William Goetz1903-1969American film producer
- Harry Richman1895-1972American entertainer; singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and nightclub performer
- Mary Leona Gage1939-2010Stripped of the 1957 Miss USA title after it was learned that she had lied about her age and marital status
- Paul Kohner1902-1988American film producer
- Sammy White1894-1960American actor
- Bernie Brillstein1931-2008American film and television producer, executive producer, and talent agent
- Darrell Zwerling1928-2014American actor
- Irving Brecher1914-2008American film director and screenwriter
- June Clayworth1912-1993American actress
- Mark Goodson1915-1992American TV producer
- Mickey Rose1935-2013American screenwriter
- Paul Richards1924-1974Actor
- Billy Sands1911-1984American actor
- Bruce Bilson1928-2026American film and television director
- Fred Kohlmar1905-1969American film producer
- Irene Mayer Selznick1907-1990American theatre producer
- Irving Aaronson1895-1963American jazz pianist and big band leader
- Irving Fein1911-2012American producer
- John Kahn1947-1996American electric and acoustic bassist
- Ray Kappe1927-2019American architect
- Shelly Novack1944-1978American football player, actor
- Sid Gillman1911-2003American football player and coach
- Sol M. Wurtzel1890-1958American film producer
- Army Archerd1922-2009American columnist for Variety
- Bernie West1918-2010American screenwriter
- David Begelman1921-1995American film producer
- Ely Landau1920-1993American film producer
- Hilda Eisen1917-2017American businessperson and philanthropist
- Linda Douglas1928-2017American actress
- Lou Holtz1893-1980American Jewish vaudeville dialect comedian and singer-actor
- Mickey Katz1909-1985American musician and comedian
- Paul Alter1922-2011American television director
- Sammy Lerner1903-1989Romanian-born songwriter for American and British musical theatre and film
- Abby Singer1917-2014American television director
- Dennis Wolfberg1946-1994American comedian and actor
- Helen Beverley1916-2011American actress
- Jimmy Jacobs1930-1988American handball player, boxing manager, documentary filmmaker, film producer and collector
- Lela Swift1919-2015American television director
- Marilyn Hall1927-2017Canadian screenwriter
- Max Factor, Jr.1904-1996American businessman
- Max Webb1917-2018American real estate developer, philanthropist
- Milt Gross1895-1953American cartoonist and animator
- Oliver A. Unger1914-1981American film and TV producer
- Ronni Chasen1946-2010American publicist
- Sam Katzman1901-1973Film producer and director
- Sherman Block1924-1998American sheriff
- Sid Rogell1900-1973American film producer
- Sidney Korshak1907-1996American lawyer
- Abe Lastfogel1898-1984American talent agent
- Arthur H. Nadel1921-1990American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and editor
- Bernard Gilmore1937-2013Composer, conductor and French horn player
- Bernard Schwartz1917-2003American film producer
- Carl Greenberg1908-1984American journalist
- Edith Flagg1919-2014American fashion designer, former fashion industry executive, and philanthropist
- Gil Rodin1906-1974American musician
- Jonathan Benair1950-1998American actor
- Jules Levy1923-2003American film and television producer
- Merv Adelson1929-2015American TV producer
- Moe Franklin1914-1978American baseball player
- Russ Alben1929-2012American composer
- Sally Insul1916-2008American actress
- Sammy Shore1927-2019Actor, stand-up comedian and co-founder of the Comedy Store
- Al Silvera1935-2002Baseball player
- Bud Swartz1929-1991American baseball player
- David Diamond1900-1979American film producer
- Gary Zekley1943-1996West Coast music producer
- I. B. Kornblum1895-1996American pianist, composer, playwright, lawyer, film producer, union organizer
- Ike Danning1905-1983Baseball player
- Irvin Kipper1916-2016American bomber pilot and businessman
- Jack M. Warner1916-1995American film producer
- Kenneth Handler1944-1994American screenwriter, director, and film composer; namesake of Mattel's Ken doll
- Leon L. Lewis1888-1954American lawyer
- Leonard Beerman1921-2014American rabbi
- Marvin Mirisch1918-2002American film producer
- Marvin Mitchelson1928-2004American lawyer
- Matthew Rapf1920-1991American film producer
- Philip N. Krasne1905-1999American film producer
- Sheldon Keller1923-2008American screenwriter and composer
- A. Fredric Leopold1920-2008American lawyer and politician
- Al Gordon1923-2012American comedy writer
- Beatrice Curtis1901-1963American actress
- Carl Cohen1913-1986Businessman
- Edith Goetz1905-1988American art collector and artist
- Freddie Sessler1923-2000Intimate of the Rolling Stones
- Harry Ornest1923-1998Sports entrepreneur
- Helen G. Fisk1895-1986American vocational services executive
- Helen Phillips Levin1924-1985American social worker and disability rights activist
- Isadore Familian1911-2002
- Ludmila Page1920-2020Holocaust survivor
- Marcella Rabwin1908-1998American writer
- Marcia Weisman1918-1991American art collector
- Mark Landon1948-2009American actor
- Max Branman1895-1966
- Mel Tolkin1913-2007American writer
- Peter Tomarken1942-2006American television personality
- Ruth Nussbaum1911-2010German translator
- Sandra Zober1927-2011American actress and the first wife of Leonard Nimoy
- Saul Brandman1925-2008American businessman and philanthropist
- Sol B. Kest1922-2010American real estate developer and philanthropist
- Stanley Bergerman1904-1998American film producer
- Willy Jacobsohn1884-1963American chemist
- Adele Somers1922-2013Education researcher
- Arthur Siteman1909-1956Canadian production manager
- Gertrude Klein1919-2016
- Harriet B. Braiker1948-2004
- Henry H. Daniels, Jr.1919-1973American actor
- Jackie Bright1919-2006Vaudeville Comedian and former president of the American Guild of Variety Artists
- Joyce Ruth Sasner1927-2001
- Margaret Shenberg1883-1955
- Meyer Branman1923-2013American attorney
- Morris Goldsmith1902-2003American structural engineer
- Sylvia Wallace1917-2006American writer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Hillside 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 Hillside 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
- Holy Cross CemeteryInglewood, CACatholic cemetery0.9 mi
- Mausoleum of the Golden WestInglewood, CA · est. 2003Catholic cemetery3.0 mi
- Inglewood Park CemeteryInglewood, CACemetery3.0 mi
- Woodlawn CemeterySanta Monica, CACemetery5.6 mi
- Westwood Memorial ParkSanta Monica, CA · est. 1880Memorial park6.1 mi
- Los Angeles National Cemetery950 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CANational cemetery6.7 mi
- Los Angeles National Cemetery ColumbariumSanta Monica, CANational cemetery6.7 mi
- Angelus Rosedale CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery6.8 mi
- Rosedale CemeteryLos Angeles, CACemetery6.8 mi
- Marquez Family CemeterySanta Monica, CAFamily cemetery7.9 mi
Funeral homes near Hillside Memorial Park
- Holy Cross Cemetery & Mortuary1.0 miMortuary · Culver City · (310) 836-5500
- Harrison Ross Mortuary1.5 miMortuary · Los Angeles · (310) 971-9221
- Inglewood Mortuary1.7 miMortuary · Inglewood · (310) 677-8137
- Los Angeles Funeral Service1.8 miFuneral home · Inglewood · (310) 390-9969
- Gates, Kingsley & Gates Smith Salsbury Funeral Directors2.1 miFuneral home · Culver City · (310) 837-7121
- Los Angeles Funeral Service2.2 miFuneral home · Culver City · (310) 390-9969
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hillside Memorial Park a Jewish cemetery?
Our records list a Jewish affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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