Chapel of the Pines Crematory is a crematory and columbarium located at 1605 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, in the historic West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown. It is beside Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, one street east, at the southwest corner of Catalina and Venice Boulevard.
Established in 1903, this domed structure, which looks like an observatory, provides crematory services and columbarium inurnment. It is the final resting place for the cremains of a number of noted persons.
(Note: This is a partial list.)
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Ted Adams (1890–1973), actorBroncho Billy Anderson (1882–1971), actorLionel Atwill (1885–1946), actorArthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actorRoss Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actorAlma Bennett (1904–1958), actressNora Dorothy Bernard (1890–1955), actressNigel Bruce (1895–1953), actor, played Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil RathboneMae Busch (1891–1946), actressLeonard Carey (1887–1977), actorLouise Carver (1869–1956), actressHelen Chandler (1906–1965), actress, Mina Harker in Dracula (1931)Parley Parker Christensen, Utah and California politician, EsperantistColin Clive (1900–1937), actor, Dr. Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (cenotaph here, but ashes were scattered at sea)Charles Pearce Coleman (1885–1951), actorJune Collyer (1906–1968), actressHeinie Conklin (1889-1959), actorTom Conway (1904–1967), actorCecil Cunningham (1888–1959), actressDorothy Christy (1906-1976), actressEdgar Dearing (1893–1974), actorWilliam Desmond (1878–1949), actor, known as "The King of the Silent Serials"Margaret Dumont (1889–1965), actress, played "straight woman" to the Marx brothers in seven of their movie comediesStuart Erwin (1903–1967), actorAnthony Eustrel (1903–1979), actorRenee Evans (1908–1971), actressErnest Evers (1874–1945), film actorBess Flowers (1898–1984), actress, known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras"Raymond Freidgen (1893–1966), director, producer, writer, actorMaude Fulton (1881–1950), actress, screenwriterFlorence Gill (1877–1965), voice actressEdmund Gwenn (1875–1959), actor, played Santa Claus in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th StreetRaymond Hackett (1902–1958), actorJean Hagen (1923–1977), actressHobart Henley (1887–1964), actorHalliwell Hobbes (1877–1962), actorArthur Hoyt (1874–1953), actorWarren Hymer (1906–1948), actorLloyd Ingraham (1874–1956), actorJulanne Johnston (1900–1988), actressJustine Johnstone (1895–1982), actressE. Truman Joiner (1906-1961), key gripGregory La Cava (1892–1952), directorLew Landers (1901–1962), motion picture directorWilliam LeBaron (1883–1958), motion picture producerMitchell Leisen (1898–1972), comedy directorMontagu Love (1877–1943), actorWilfred Lucas (1871–1940), actor, director, screenwriterJ. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952), actorHerbert Marshall (1890–1966), actorEdward Martindel (1876–1955), actorSarah Y. Mason, actressTorben Meyer (1884–1975), actorGertrude Michael (1910–1965), actressThomas Mitchell (1892–1962), actor, played Gerald O'Hara, Scarlet's father in Gone with the Wind and Uncle Billy in the Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with James StewartLeonard Mudie (1883-1965), actorAlan Napier (1903–1988), actor, Alfred Pennyworth on TV's BatmanRay Nazarro (1902–1986), film directorTom Neal (1914–1972), actor, convicted murdererWillis O'Brien (1886–1962), effects man for King Kong (1933)Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actressFlorence Oakley (1881–1956), actressPhilip Ober (1902–1982),Garry Owen (1902-1951), actorFranklin Parker (1900–1962), actorStuart Paton (1883–1944), motion picture directorEileen Percy (1900–1973), actressGeorge P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author and explorer, husband of Amelia EarhartWarner Richmond (1886-1948), actorRachel Roberts (1927–1980), British actressDewey Robinson (1898-1950) American film character actor Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composerWilliam Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio ownerAnn Sheridan (1915–1967), actress, known as the "Oomph Girl," originally inurned here, her ashes were relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor, played Tonto on The Lone Ranger, cremated here, ashes were scattered on his Six Nations reservation in CanadaHerbert Standing Sr. (1846–1923), actorVernon Steele (1882–1955), actorHarry Stubbs (1874–1950), actorStephen Stucker (1947–1986), actorZeffie Tilbury (1863–1950), actressFlorence Turner (1885–1946), actress, known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent moviesPhilip Van Zandt (1904–1958), actorH. B. Warner (1875–1958), actor (private vaultage)E. Allyn Warren (1874–1940), actorLyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), movie art directorKathlyn Williams (1888–1960), actress, screenwriterThe British Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates one Commonwealth serviceman whose ashes are inurned here, a soldier of the Canadian Army of World War I.
