Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
This article is about the cemeteries in Los Angeles. For other uses, see Mount Sinai (disambiguation).
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California. The original cemetery is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally established in 1953 by the neighboring Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery. It became an exclusively Jewish cemetery in 1959, and was acquired in 1967 by Sinai Temple, the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles.[1][2] Among those interred here are numerous stars and celebrities from the entertainment industry.
In 1997, faced with dwindling space at the original Hollywood Hills location, Mount Sinai dedicated a second cemetery location in Simi Valley.[1][2]
Notable interments and their families
- Irwin Allen (1916–1991), director, producer, writer
- Art Aragon (1927–2008), boxer
- Danny Arnold (1925–1995), film actor/editor/writer
- Eleanor Audley (1905–1991), actress, voice-over artist
- Frances Bay (1919–2011), actress
- Ruth Berle (1921–1989), second wife of comedian Milton Berle; Milton was originally supposed to be interred here, in a double crypt with Ruth, but was instead interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
- Herschel Bernardi (1923–1986), actor
- Sara Berner (1912–1969), actress, voice-over artist
- Virginia Christine (1920–1996), actress, voice artist
- Sidney Clute (1916–1985), actor
- Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976), actor
- Ruth Cohen (1930–2008), actress (Seinfeld)
- Stanley Cortez (1908–1997), cinematographer
- Warren Cowan (1921–2008), publicist
- Mack David (1912–1993), composer
- "Mama" Cass Elliot (1941–1974), singer
- Ziggy Elman (1911–1968), big-band musician and composer
- Fritz Feld (1900–1993), actor
- Norman Fell (1924–1998), actor
- Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian
- Helen Forrest (1917–1999), singer
- Karl Freund (1890–1969), cinematographer
- Eddie Fisher (1928–2010), actor and singer
- Bruce Geller (1930–1978), producer
- Sol Gorss (born Saul Gorss) (1908–1966), actor
- Billy Halop (1920–1976) actor
- Larry Harmon (1925–2008), actor and comedian
- Nat Hiken (1914–1968), award-winning writer, director, producer
- Gregg Hoffman (1963–2005), producer
- Peter Hurkos (1911–1988), psychic
- Eddie Kane (1889–1969), actor
- Leonard Katzman (1927–1996), film and TV writer, producer, and director
- Jack Klugman (1922–2012), stage, film, and TV actor
- John Larch (1914–2005), actor
- Sydney Lassick (1922–2003), actor
- Pinky Lee (1907–1993), actor and comedian
- Robert Q. Lewis (1920–1991), television personality, actor, and game show host
- Bruce Malmuth (1934–2005), director
- Ross Martin (1920–1981), actor
- Laurence Merrick (1926–1977), director and author
- Irving Mills (1894–1985), composer
- Marvin Minoff (1931–2009), film and television producer, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews
- Bill Novey (1948–1991), Special Effects Master/Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering/co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc.
- Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), journalist
- Mark Robson (1913–1978), director
- David Rose (1910–1990), composer
- Milton Rosen (1922–2000), prolific composer
- Steven Rothenberg (1958–2009), film studio executive (Lions Gate, Artisan Entertainment)[3]
- Mo Rothman (1919–2011), studio executive who persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972.[3]
- Walter Scharf (1910-2003), composer
- Al Sherman (1897–1973), songwriter
- Phil Silvers (1912–1985), actor and comedian
- Sidney Skolsky (1905–1983), Hollywood reporter
- Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Howard Smit (1911–2009), film make-up artist who led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup[4]
- Abner Spector (1918–2010), songwriter, record producer (Sally Go 'Round the Roses), record company executive
- Harold J. Stone (1913–2005), actor
- Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), animator
- Brandon Tartikoff (1949–1997), television executive
- Irving Taylor (1914–1983), songwriter
- Mel Taylor (1933–1996), musician
- Bobby Van (1928–1980), actor and dancer
- Jesse White (1917–1997), actor
- Harry Wilson (1897–1978), actor
References
- ^ a b Ruth Stroud, "Westward Expansion", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 20, 1997.
- ^ a b Tracy Valeri, "Mount Sinai Park Dedication Set", Los Angeles Daily News, March 15, 1997.
- ^ a b DiOrio, Carl (2009-07-19). "Steve Rothenberg dies at 50". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2009-08-01.[dead link]
- ^ Barnes, Mike (2009-08-04). "Makeup artist Howard J. Smit dies". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2009-08-12.[dead link]
