Chapel of the Pines Crematory

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Chapel of the Pines Crematory is a crematory and columbarium located at 1605 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, in the historic West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown. It is beside Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, one street east, at the southwest corner of Catalina and Venice Boulevard.

Established in 1903, this domed structure, which looks like an observatory, provides crematory services and columbarium inurnment. It is the final resting place for the cremains of a number of noted persons.

List of notable interments[]

(Note: This is a partial list.)

Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

A[]

• Ted Adams (1890–1973), actor
• Broncho Billy Anderson (1882–1971), actor (private vaultage)
• George Anderson (1886–1948), actor
• Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), actor (private vaultage)
• Arthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actor

B[]

• Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actor
• Bob Bailey (1913–1983) radio actor (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)
• Alma Bennett (1904–1958), actress
• Frank Brownlee (1874–1948), actor
• Nigel Bruce (1895–1953), actor, played Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone
• Mae Busch (1891–1946), actress

C[]

• Leonard Carey (1887–1977), actor
• Louise Carver (1869–1956), actress
• Helen Chandler (1906–1965), actress, Mina Harker in Dracula (1931) (private vaultage)
• Parley Parker Christensen (1869-1954), Utah and California politician, Esperantist
• Colin Clive (1900–1937), actor, Dr. Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (cenotaph here, but ashes were scattered at sea)
• Charles Pearce Coleman (1885–1951), actor
• June Collyer (1906–1968), actress
• Heinie Conklin (1889-1959), actor
• Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor (private vaultage)
• Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), actress
• Dorothy Christy (1906-1976), actress

D[]

• J. Searle Dawley (1877-1949), film director, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright
• Edgar Dearing (1893–1974), film character actor
• William Desmond (1878–1949), actor, known as "The King of the Silent Serials" (private vaultage)
• Elspeth Dudgeon (1871-1955), actress
• Margaret Dumont (1882–1965), actress, played "straight woman" to the Marx brothers in several of their movie comedies

E[]

• Stuart Erwin (1903–1967), actor
• Anthony Eustrel (1903–1979), actor
• Renee Evans (1908–1971), actress
• Ernest Evers (1874–1945), film actor

F[]

• Bess Flowers (1898–1984), actress, known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras"
• Raymond Freidgen (1893–1966), director, producer, writer, actor
• Maude Fulton (1881–1950), actress, screenwriter (private vaultage)
• Noel Francis (1906-1959) , Actress, worked with James Cagney, Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Muni

G[]

• Florence Gill (1877–1965), voice actress
• Edmund Gwenn (1875–1959), actor, played Santa Claus in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (private vaultage)

H[]

• Raymond Hackett (1902–1958), actor
• Jean Hagen (1923–1977), actress
• Hobart Henley (1887–1964), actor
• Halliwell Hobbes (1877–1962), actor
• Arthur Hoyt (1874–1953), actor
• Warren Hymer (1906–1948), actor

I[]

• Lloyd Ingraham (1874–1956), actor, director, and screenwriter

J[]

• Julanne Johnston (1900–1988), actress
• Justine Johnstone (1895–1982), actress
• (1905-1961), Key Grip

L[]

• Gregory La Cava (1892–1952), director
• Lew Landers (1901–1962), motion picture director
• William LeBaron (1883–1958), motion picture producer
• Mitchell Leisen (1898–1972), comedy director
• Montagu Love (1877–1943), actor
• Wilfred Lucas (1871–1940), actor, director, screenwriter (private vaultage)

M[]

• J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952), actor and director
• Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), actor
• Edward Martindel (1876–1955), actor
• Sarah Y. Mason (1896–1980), screenwriter and script supervisor (private vaultage)
• Torben Meyer (1884–1975), actor
• Gertrude Michael (1910–1965), actress
• Geneva Mitchell (1908–1949), actress
• Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962), actor
• Leonard Mudie (1883–1965), actor

N[]

• Alan Napier (1903–1988), actor, butler Alfred Pennyworth on TV's Batman (cremated here, ashes scattered in his former residence's garden).
• Ray Nazarro (1902–1986), film director
• Tom Neal (1914–1972), actor, convicted murderer

O[]

• Willis H. O'Brien (1886–1962), filmmaker
• Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actress
• Philip Ober (1902–1982), actor
• Garry Owen (1902-1951), actor

P[]

• Franklin Parker (1900–1962), actor
• Stuart Paton (1883–1944), motion picture director (private vaultage)
• Eileen Percy (1900–1973), actress
• George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author and explorer, husband of Amelia Earhart

R[]

• Warner Richmond (1886–1948), actor
• Rachel Roberts (1927–1980), British actress
• Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composer (private vaultage)

S[]

• William Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio owner
• Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), actress, known as the "Oomph Girl," originally inurned here, her ashes were relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005
• Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor, played Tonto on The Lone Ranger, cremated here, ashes were scattered on his Six Nations reservation in Canada
• Herbert Standing Sr. (1846–1923), actor
• Vernon Steele (1882–1955), actor
• Harry Stubbs (1874–1950), actor
• Noel Francis Sweeney Stevenson (1906-1959), Actress, Worked with James Cagney, Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Muni

T[]

• Zeffie Tilbury (1863–1950), actress
• Florence Turner (1885–1946), actress, producer, and screenwriter (private vaultage)

V[]

• Philip Van Zandt (1904–1958), actor (private vaultage)

W[]

• H. B. Warner (1875–1958), actor (private vaultage)
• E. Allyn Warren (1874–1940), actor
• Lyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), movie art director
• Kathlyn Williams (1888–1960), actress, screenwriter

Y[]

• Cy Young, animator

The British Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates one Commonwealth serviceman whose ashes are inurned here, a soldier of the Canadian Army of World War I.^[1]

References[]

Coordinates: 34°02′38″N 118°17′42″W / 34.043765°N 118.29487°W / 34.043765; -118.29487