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.)
Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.
Ted Adams (1890–1973), actor
Broncho Billy Anderson (1882–1971), actor
Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), actor
Arthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actor
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actor
Alma Bennett (1904–1958), actress
Nora Dorothy Bernard (1890–1955), actress
Nigel Bruce (1895–1953), actor, played Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone
Mae Busch (1891–1946), actress
Leonard Carey (1887–1977), actor
Louise Carver (1869–1956), actress
Helen Chandler (1906–1965), actress, Mina Harker in Dracula (1931)
Parley Parker Christensen, Utah and California politician, Esperantist
Colin 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), actor
June Collyer (1906–1968), actress
Heinie Conklin (1889-1959), actor
Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), actress
Dorothy Christy (1906-1976), actress
Edgar Dearing (1893–1974), actor
William 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 comedies
Stuart Erwin (1903–1967), actor
Anthony Eustrel (1903–1979), actor
Renee Evans (1908–1971), actress
Ernest Evers (1874–1945), film actor
Bess Flowers (1898–1984), actress, known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras"
Raymond Freidgen (1893–1966), director, producer, writer, actor
Maude Fulton (1881–1950), actress, screenwriter
Florence Gill (1877–1965), voice actress
Edmund Gwenn (1875–1959), actor, played Santa Claus in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street
Raymond Hackett (1902–1958), actor
Jean Hagen (1923–1977), actress
Hobart Henley (1887–1964), actor
Halliwell Hobbes (1877–1962), actor
Arthur Hoyt (1874–1953), actor
Warren Hymer (1906–1948), actor
Lloyd Ingraham (1874–1956), actor
Julanne Johnston (1900–1988), actress
Justine Johnstone (1895–1982), actress
E. Truman Joiner (1906-1961), key grip
Gregory La Cava (1892–1952), director
Lew Landers (1901–1962), motion picture director
William LeBaron (1883–1958), motion picture producer
Mitchell Leisen (1898–1972), comedy director
Montagu Love (1877–1943), actor
Wilfred Lucas (1871–1940), actor, director, screenwriter
J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952), actor
Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), actor
Edward Martindel (1876–1955), actor
Sarah Y. Mason, actress
Torben Meyer (1884–1975), actor
Gertrude Michael (1910–1965), actress
Thomas 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 Stewart
Leonard Mudie (1883-1965), actor
Alan Napier (1903–1988), actor, Alfred Pennyworth on TV's Batman
Ray Nazarro (1902–1986), film director
Tom Neal (1914–1972), actor, convicted murderer
Willis O'Brien (1886–1962), effects man for King Kong (1933)
Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actress
Florence Oakley (1881–1956), actress
Philip Ober (1902–1982),
Garry Owen (1902-1951), actor
Franklin Parker (1900–1962), actor
Stuart Paton (1883–1944), motion picture director
Eileen Percy (1900–1973), actress
George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author and explorer, husband of Amelia Earhart
Warner Richmond (1886-1948), actor
Rachel Roberts (1927–1980), British actress
Dewey Robinson (1898-1950) American film character actor
Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composer
William Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio owner
Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), actress, known as the "Oomph Girl," originally inurned here, her ashes were relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005
Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor, played Tonto on The Lone Ranger, cremated here, ashes were scattered on his Six Nations reservation in Canada
Herbert Standing Sr. (1846–1923), actor
Vernon Steele (1882–1955), actor
Harry Stubbs (1874–1950), actor
Stephen Stucker (1947–1986), actor
Zeffie Tilbury (1863–1950), actress
Florence Turner (1885–1946), actress, known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent movies
Philip Van Zandt (1904–1958), actor
H. B. Warner (1875–1958), actor (private vaultage)
E. Allyn Warren (1874–1940), actor
Lyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), movie art director
Kathlyn Williams (1888–1960), actress, screenwriter
The British Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates one Commonwealth serviceman whose ashes are inurned here, a soldier of the Canadian Army of World War I.