Eden Memorial Park Cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles, California

Eden Memorial Park Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 11500 Sepulveda Boulevard, Mission Hills, California, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Many Jews from the entertainment industry are buried here. It is located north of the San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

The operators of the cemetery were accused on more than one occasion of destroying graves and discarding human remains to make room for new burials.[1]

Notable interments

  • Phil Arnold (1909–1968), actor
  • Marty Allen (1922–2018), actor, comedian
  • Terry Becker (1921–2014), actor
  • John Brown (1904–1957), actor
  • Lenny Bruce (1925–1966), comedian
  • James Caan (1940–2022), actor
  • Howard Caine (1926–1993), actor
  • Jon Cedar (1931–2011), actor
  • Harvey Cohen (1951–2007), composer
  • Allen Curtis (1878–1961), film director
  • Dan Curtis (1927–2006), film producer and director
  • Lewis Dauber (1949–2019), actor
  • Sam Denoff (1928–2011), screenwriter
  • Don Diamond (1921–2011), actor
  • Phil Foster (1914–1985), actor
  • Bruce Gary (1951–2006), musician
  • Michael Gilden (1962–2006), actor
  • Bert Gordon (1895–1974), comedian
  • Mitzi Green (1920–1969), actress
  • Julius Harris (1923–2004), actor
  • Morton Heilig (1926–1997), cinematographer, inventor
  • Jerry Heller (1940–2016), American music manager
  • Jack Herer (1939–2010), cannabis activist
  • Sam Jaffe (1891–1984), actor
  • Milt Kamen (1921–1977), actor, comic
  • Herb Karpel (1917–1995), baseball player
  • Kurt Katch (1896–1958), actor
  • Al Lapin Jr. (1927–2004), co-founder of IHOP
  • Harvey Lembeck (1923–1982), actor, father of actor/director Michael Lembeck
  • Larry D. Mann (1922–2014), actor
  • Nicholas Markowitz (1984–2000), murder victim
  • Groucho Marx (1890–1977), actor/comedian
  • Vic Mizzy (1916–2009), composer
  • Brad Morrow (1942–1997), actor
  • Buck Ram (1907–1991), songwriter
  • Catya Sassoon (1968–2002), actress/model
  • Hacham Yedidia Shofet (1908–2004), Chief Rabbi of Iran and worldwide spiritual leader of Persian Jewry
  • Roy Stuart (1927–2005), actor
  • George Wyle (1915–2003), film and television composer

References

  1. ^ Los Angeles Daily News; 7 March 2015; ‘’Jewish cemetery Eden Memorial Park sued again for throwing out remains’’

External links

  • Eden Memorial Park Cemetery website
  • Eden Memorial Park Cemetery at Find a Grave

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