Sleepy Hollow

by Sylviastel | created - 13 Sep 2012 | updated - 30 Jun 2014 | Public

The men and women buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County New York.

1. Alice Brady

Actress | My Man Godfrey

Alice Brady was born in New York City on November 2, 1892. She was interested in the stage from childhood, as her father was famed Broadway producer William A. Brady. After a few stage productions, Alice was discovered by movie producers in New York, since this was the film capital at the time. Her...

Plot: Gibeon 57, next to the curb

2. Elizabeth Arden

Make_up_department | Latin Comedy: Una Comedia de Derecha para un Publico de Izquierda

Elizabeth Arden was born on December 31, 1878 in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. She was an assistant director, known for Latin Comedy: Una Comedia de Derecha para un Publico de Izquierda (2003). She was married to Prince Michael Evlanoff and Thomas Jenkins Lewis. She died on October 18, 1966 in New ...

Interred in the Graham Family Plot under the name Elizabeth N. Graham.

3. Brooke Astor

Self | Empire City

Brooke Astor was born on March 30, 1902 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. She died on August 13, 2007 in Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA.

4. Holbrook Blinn

Actor | The Bad Man

American stage actor and director who made numerous silent film appearances. Blinn was born and raised in San Francisco and attended nearby Stanford University. But his stage career had begun years before, when he made his acting debut at age six. Following his education, he resumed acting, ...

5. Edward Bowes

Actor | Major Bowes' Amateur Parade No. 1

Edward Bowes was born on June 14, 1874 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Major Bowes' Amateur Parade No. 1 (1936), Kindling (1915) and Camille (1926). He was married to Margaret Illington. He died on June 14, 1946 in Rumson, New Jersey, USA.

6. Viola Allen

Actress | The White Sister

Viola Allen was born 1869 in Alabama and educated in Boston, Toronto and New York. She made her stage debut on July 4th, 1882. Since then she starred in many other stage plays. At the beginning of the 20th century she could also be seen in a lot of Shakespeare revivals. Viola Allen passed away 1948...

7. Andrew Carnegie

Self | Our Mutual Girl

Andrew Carnegie is a Scottish-American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During ...

8. Francis Church

Actor | Princess Ida

Francis Church is known for Princess Ida (2003) and H.M.S. Pinafore (2003).

9. Parker Fennelly

Actor | The Trouble with Harry

Parker Fennelly was born on October 22, 1891 in Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA. He was an actor, known for The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957) and The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966). He was married to Catherine Reynolds. He died on January 22,...

10. Samuel Gompers

Self | Samuel Gompers the World's Greatest Labor Leader

Samuel Gompers was born on January 27, 1850 in London, England, UK. He was married to Gertrude Annersly Gleaves Neuscheler and Sophia Julian. He died on December 13, 1924 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

11. Mark Hellinger

Producer | The Killers

Mark Hellinger made his name as a New York theater critic and as one of the first of the nationally known "Broadway columnists", a craft which his friend Walter Winchell was the most famous practitioner. Born on March 21, 1903, Hellinger was the embodiment of the hard-boiled, hard-living, ...

12. Leona Helmsley

Self | I Love the 80's 3-D

Leona Helmsley was born on July 4, 1920 in Marbletown, New York, USA. She was married to Harry Helmsey, Joseph Lubin and Leo Panzirer. She died on August 20, 2007 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.

13. Washington Irving

Writer | Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his ...

15. Joseph Urban

Art_department | Boomerang Bill

Renowned Viennese architect Joseph Urban was enticed to come to America in 1911 to design the elaborate stage sets in New York City for the Follies revues of impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. Media bigwig William Randolph Hearst then brought him to Hollywood, in the 1920s,where he did art and set ...

Plot: Section 49 "Arcadia"

16. Henry Villard

Self | The Century: America's Time

The very first day that he arrived on the European battlefield his first assignment was to drive and ambulance carrying a man who had had a hand grenade blow off his hands and his legs. The man screamed for Villard to drive slower and slower and by the time he arrived at the hospital the man was ...

17. Walker Whiteside

Actor | The Melting Pot

Walker Whiteside was born on March 16, 1869 in Logansport, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Melting Pot (1915), The Belgian (1918) and Animated Weekly, No. 27 (1912). He was married to Leila Wolston McCord. He died on August 17, 1942 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA.



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