Pacific View Memorial Park
by Sylviastel | created - 24 Aug 2012 | updated - 12 Feb 2020 | PublicThe men and women below are interred at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona Del Mar, Orange County, California.
1. Jeanne Carmen
Actress | Untamed Youth
Jeanne Carmen spent her early childhood in Paragould, Arkansas with her family picking cotton. At age 13, she ran away from home, eventually landing in New York City and taking a job as a dancer in an off-Broadway touring company. The early 1950s found her in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the company of ...
3. Edmund Burns
Actor | Male and Female
Edmund Burns was born on September 27, 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Male and Female (1919), The Shamrock and the Rose (1927) and Ransom (1928). He was married to Ruth Curry. He died on April 2, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Plot: Vista Del Mar, Lot 216-C
4. Jeanne Cagney
Actress | Quicksand
Dark-haired beauty Jeanne Carolyn Cagney was born in New York City, New York on March 25, 1919 - just a few months after the end of World War I. She and her four brothers - including James Cagney and William Cagney - were raised by her widowed mother. Jeanne majored in French and German during her ...
5. William Cagney
Actor | Lost in the Stratosphere
William (Bill) Cagney (producer brother of star James Cagney) was almost a dead ringer for his, in front of the camera, more famous brother. When first wife Boots' younger sister Viola "Bodie" (Mallory) Avinger gave birth to identical twin boys Cleveland (Cleve) and Steven (Steve) Lewis on February...
6. William Austin
Actor | It
William Austin was born on June 12, 1884 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor, known for It (1927), Redheads on Parade (1935) and In Love with Love (1924). He died on June 15, 1975 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
Plot: Alcove of Faith, Niche 251
7. Dorothy Dare
Actress | Gold Diggers of 1935
Dorothy Dare was an actress and singer.
She appeared in quite a few 20-minute Vitaphone shorts and full feature films with bigger stars such as Dick Powell and Irene Dunne. Most of her films are shown periodically on Turner Classic Movies. Some have said Dorothy didn't get a chance in Hollywood. ...
Plot: Oceanview, Lot 104; Gr. E
8. Kevin DuBrow
Soundtrack | Babylon A.D.
Kevin DuBrow was born on October 29, 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Babylon A.D. (2008), Crank (2006) and Footloose (1984). He died on November 25, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Plot: Garden of David, Lot 60, grave B, next to his stepfather
9. Don Durant
Soundtrack | Johnny Ringo
The "fastest gun in all the West" and the poster boy for "tall, dark and handsome:, Don Durant was best known for his title role in the CBS western series Johnny Ringo (1959). Born Donald Allison Durae on November 20, 1932, in Long Beach, California, he spent some of his youth in Riverside as well ...
10. John Eldredge
Actor | High Sierra
John Eldredge was born on August 30, 1904 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for High Sierra (1940), Backlash (1947) and The Master Key (1945). He was married to Frances Virginia Kathleen Hubbell and Eleanor Catherine Walker. He died on September 23, 1961 in Laguna Beach, ...
Plot: Lakeside, Lot 7 N. 1/2 B
12. David Freeman
Writer | Prey
David Freeman is known for Prey (2006), Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (2004) and War Front: Turning Point (2007).
Plot: Garden of Reflections; D1, #4, Niche 941
13. John Gallaudet
Actor | In Cold Blood
John Gallaudet was born on August 23, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for In Cold Blood (1967), Side Street (1949) and Murder Is News (1937). He was married to Constance Helen MacKenzie and Wynne Gibson. He died on November 5, 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Plot: Lacunita Alcove, North, Niche 75 (Unmarked, with his wife)
14. John Gordy
Actor | Paper Lion
John Gordy was born on June 17, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Paper Lion (1968), Say Goodbye (1971) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He was married to Betty Gordy. He died on January 30, 2009 in Orange, California, USA.
Plot: Garden of Valor, Lot 144, Grave D
15. Bobby Hatfield
Soundtrack | Feeling Minnesota
Bobby Hatfield was born on August 10, 1940 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Feeling Minnesota (1996), Cheers (1982) and Twenty-One (1991). He was married to Linda Jean Torrison and Alberta Joy Colsant (Joy Ciro). He died on November 5, 2003 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
Plot: Lido Terrace section
17. Rudolf Ising
Producer | The Milky Way
While animation was still in its infancy during the early twenties, Walt Disney managed to recruit the brightest and best talent nationwide and imported it into Hollywood. Two of these pioneers artists were close friends Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. They had first tasted success by helping to ...
18. Louis Lewyn
Producer | Mary of the Movies
Louis Lewyn was born on December 18, 1891 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Mary of the Movies (1923), The Voice of Hollywood No. 3 (1930) and Sky-Eye (1920). He was married to Marion Mack. He died on May 24, 1969 in Huntington Beach, California, USA.
Plot: Bayview Terrace, Lot 222-E
19. Marion Mack
Actress | The General
Many recognise Marion Mack as the beautiful but brainless heroine Annabelle Lee, of Buster Keaton's classic 'The General'. However, few realise that Marion was also a talented screenwriter who, with her husband, formed a successful production team. Born Joey Marion McReery, she began her career as ...
20. Ray Malavasi
Actor | Fantasy Island
Ray Malavasi was born on November 8, 1930 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Fantasy Island (1977), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He died on December 15, 1987 in Santa Ana, California, USA.
Plot: Oceanview 824-A
21. Paul Mantz
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
American aviator who became the most renowned stunt flyer in movies of the mid-twentieth century. The son of a school principal, he grew up Redwood City, California and developed a fascination with flying as a boy. He joined the Air Corps as a cadet and was a brilliant student pilot, but he was ...
Plot: Mausoleum of the Pacific, Palm Court, Alcove of Devotion, Niche 43
22. Freddy Martin
Actor | The Mayor of 44th Street
Freddy Martin was born on December 9, 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Mayor of 44th Street (1942), Forbidden Zone (1980) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He was married to E. Lillian Reardon. He died on September 30, 1983 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
23. Mary Dee Marx
Mary Dee Marx was born on October 2, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Mary Dee was married to Chico Marx. Mary Dee died on December 22, 2002 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
Plot: Magnolia Court, 939, space S
24. Barbara McLean
Editor | All About Eve
Ms. McLean was a pioneering female film editor for 20th Century Fox. She began her Hollywood career in the 1930s and earned her first film credit for editing The Affairs of Cellini (1934). She joined Fox in 1935 as one of only eight female film editors working in Hollywood in the 1930s. She became ...
Plot: Magnolia Court, Crypt 691, L5
25. Gene Polito
Cinematographer | Westworld
Gene Polito was born on September 13, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a cinematographer, known for Westworld (1973), Up in Smoke (1978) and Futureworld (1976). She was married to Lucille. She died on November 28, 2010 in Irvine, California, USA.
26. Frieda Pushnik
Actress | House of the Damned
Frieda Pushnik was born armless and legless after her mother had an appendix operation while pregnant. As a child she was "drafted" as a resident guest of sideshows with both "Ripley's Believe it or Not" and the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus". She was part of sideshows from 1933 to ...
27. Mary Lee
Actress | Cowboy and the Senorita
Mary Lee was born on October 24, 1924 in Centralia, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Cowboy and the Senorita (1944), Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941) and Angels with Broken Wings (1941). She was married to Harry J. Banan. She died on June 6, 1996 in Sacramento, California, USA.
28. James Roosevelt
Producer | Pot o' Gold
James Roosevelt, the son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, was born on December 23, 1907 in New York City. The oldest son, he was the second of the Roosevelts' six children, only five of whom survived to adulthood; their third ...
29. Roy Rowland
Director | Meet Me in Las Vegas
Roy Rowland studied law at the University of Southern California, then joined MGM as a script clerk. As if getting that job wasn't enough good luck in the middle of the Depression, he also married the niece of MGM chief Louis B. Mayer.
He sharpened his directing chops at MGM with a series of shorts ...
30. June Story
31. Frank Tallman
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Frank Tallman was born on April 17, 1919 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Capricorn One (1977) and Lucky Lady (1975). He died on April 15, 1978 in Orange County, California, USA.
Plot: Bayview Terrace, Lot 146-A
32. Kam Tong
Actor | Flower Drum Song
Kam Tong was born on December 18, 1906 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Flower Drum Song (1961), Mr. Garlund (1960) and Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966). He was married to Betty Sakata. He died on November 8, 1969 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.
Plot: Vista Del Mar, Lot 560-E
33. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
Plot: Bayview Terrace, section 575
34. Robert D. Webb
Assistant_director | In Old Chicago
Robert Webb comes from a long list of Hollywood notables. His brother, Millard Webb was a silent movie director who was married to dancer Mary Eaton. Robert's sister, Bethel Webb Hoffman was a silent movie actress; while her son and Robert's nephew, Bud Hoffman was a Film Editor at Universal ...
35. Niles Welch
Actor | Dangerous Pleasure
Niles Welch was born on July 29, 1888, in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Yale and Columbia Universities, where he excelled in athletics. Welch spent two years in France studying literature, languages, painting and drama. He started his career on stage in 1909 in a production at Columbia. After ...
Plot: Magnolia Court, Crypt 651
36. Lila Zali
Lila Zali was born on July 22, 1918 in Tiflis, Georgia [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. She was an actress. She was married to Nicholas Kolia Levienne. She died on January 4, 2003 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
37. Paul Crouch
Producer | The Omega Code
Flamboyant televangelist Paul Crouch first gained notoriety as the founder of the "Trinity Broadcasting Network" (TBN), an evangelical/charismatic Christian television network, on which he and his wife, Jan Crouch, had their own religious (but very controversial among conservative evangelicals) talk...
38. Jan Crouch
Producer | The Glory of the Resurrection
Jan Crouch was born on May 14, 1938 in New Brockton, Alabama, USA. She was a producer, known for The Glory of the Resurrection (1996), TotaLee Fit: with Lee Haney (1997) and Say Yes (1986). She was married to Paul Crouch. She died on May 31, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
39. Les Baxter
Soundtrack | Wild at Heart
Born March 14, 1922, at Mexia, Texas. He learned to play the piano at five years of age and studied at the Detroit Conservatory and at Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California (his uncle was the college's first president). He began his career as a concert pianist but later joined Mel Tormé's "...
40. Cedrick Hardman
Actor | Stir Crazy
Cedrick Hardman was born on October 4, 1948 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Stir Crazy (1980), House Party (1990) and The Candidate (1972). He was married to Carolyn Richardson. He died on March 8, 2019 in San Clemente, California, USA.
41. Kobe Bryant
Producer | Dear Basketball
Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Bryant won five NBA championships, ...
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