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The Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood Village section of Los Angeles, California.
Interred in this cemetery is a number of the entertainment industry's greatest stars including:
- Eve Arden - actress, "Our Miss Brooks"
- Hy Averback - director
- Jim Backus - actor, Mr. Howell on "Gilligan's Island"
- Richard Basehart - actor, Admiral Nelson on TV?s "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
- Sebastian Cabot - actor, played the butler Mr. French on "Family Affair"
- Sammy Cahn - songwriter,
- Truman Capote, author - "In Cold Blood"
- John Cassavetes - actor, screenwriter, director, producer
- Dominique Dunne - actress, Poltergeist; daughter of writer Dominick Dunne, brother of actor-director Griffin Dunne
- Louis Jourdan, Jr - son of French actor Louis Jourdan, died from a drug overdose
- Burt Lancaster, actor
- Oscar Levant, actor, pianist
- Eva Gabor, actress - "Green Acres"
- Hugh Hefner - "In waiting" - He purchased the crypt beside Marilyn Monroe, his first "Playboy" centerfold.
- Janis Joplin, singer. She was cremated here and later scattered in the Pacific Ocean
- Brian Keith - actor, Uncle Bill on "Family Affair" - Buried with his daughter, Daisy. Both committed suicide.
- Peggy Lee, singer
- Jack Lemmon, actor
- Dean Martin, actor, singer
- Walter Matthau, actor
- Marilyn Monroe, actress
- Carroll O'Connor, actor - Archie Bunker
- Heather O'Rourke, actress, Poltergeist
- Roy Orbison, legendary singer, and Rock and Roll pioneer
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
- Donna Reed, actress
- George C. Scott, actor - "Patton"
- Robert Stack, actor - The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries
- Dorothy Stratten, "Playboy Playmate," actress, murdered at age 20
- Mel Torme, singer
- Cornel Wilde, actor
- Billy Wilder, director
- Carl Wilson, singer - The Beach Boys
- Natalie Wood, actress
- Darryl F. Zanuck - head of 20th Century Fox Film Studios
- Frank Zappa - musician
