Chapel of the Pines Crematory
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.
List of notable interments
(Note: This is a partial list.)
Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.
A
- Ted Adams (1890–1973), actor
- Broncho Billy Anderson (1882–1971), actor (private vault)
- George Anderson (1886–1948), actor
- Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), actor (private vault)
- Arthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actor
B
- Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actor
- Bob Bailey (1913–1983) radio actor
- Alma Bennett (1904–1958), actress
- Frank Brownlee (1874–1948), actor
- Nigel Bruce (1895–1953), actor
- Mae Busch (1891–1946), actress
C
- Leonard Carey (1887–1977), actor
- Louise Carver (1869–1956), actress
- Helen Chandler (1906–1965), actress (originally inurned here in the private vault, ashes relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2023)
- Parley Parker Christensen (1869-1954), Utah and California politician, Esperantist
- Colin Clive (1900–1937), actor (cenotaph here, but ashes were scattered at sea)
- June Collyer (1906–1968), actress
- Heinie Conklin (1889-1959), actor
- Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor (private vault)
- Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), actress
- Dorothy Christy (1906-1976), actress
D
- J. Searle Dawley (1877-1949), film director, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright
- Edgar Dearing (1893–1974), actor
- William Desmond (1878–1949), actor (private vault)
- Margaret Dumont (1882–1965), actress
E
- Stuart Erwin (1903–1967), actor
- Anthony Eustrel (1903–1979), actor
- Renee Evans (1908–1971), actress
- Ernest Evers (1874–1945), film actor
F
- Bess Flowers (1898–1984), actress
- Maude Fulton (1881–1950), actress, screenwriter (private vault)
- Noel Francis (1906-1959), actress
G
- Florence Gill (1877–1965), voice actress
- Edmund Gwenn (1875–1959), actor (private vault)
H
- 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
I
- Lloyd Ingraham (1874–1956), actor, director, and screenwriter
J
- Julanne Johnston (1900–1988), actress
- Justine Johnstone (1895–1982), actress
L
- 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
M
- J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952), actor and director
- Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), actor
- Edward Martindel (1876–1955), actor
- Sarah Y. Mason (1896–1980), screenwriter and script supervisor (private vault)
- Torben Meyer (1884–1975), actor
- Gertrude Michael (1910–1965), actress
- Geneva Mitchell (1908–1949), actress
- Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962), actor (private vault)
- Leonard Mudie (1883–1965), actor
N
- Alan Napier (1903–1988), actor (cremated here, ashes scattered in his former residence's garden)
- Ray Nazarro (1902–1986), film director
- Tom Neal (1914–1972), actor, convicted of manslaughter in the death of his estranged wife
- Kurt Neumann (1908-1958), film director (private vault, it was mistakenly believed to be buried at Home of Peace Cemetery with his wife)
O
- Willis H. O'Brien (1886–1962), filmmaker
- Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actress
- Philip Ober (1902–1982), actor
- Garry Owen (1902-1951), actor
P
- Franklin Parker (1900–1962), actor
- Gladys Parker (1908–1966), cartoonist
- Stuart Paton (1883–1944), motion picture director (private vaultage)
- Eileen Percy (1900–1973), actress
- George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author and explorer, husband of Amelia Earhart
R
- Warner Richmond (1886–1948), actor
- Rachel Roberts (1927–1980), actress
- Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composer (private vault)
S
- William Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio owner
- Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), actress (originally inurned here, ashes were relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005)
- Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor (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
- Noel Francis (1906–1959), actress
T
- Zeffie Tilbury (1863–1950), actress
- Florence Turner (1885–1946), actress, producer, and screenwriter (private vault)
V
- Philip Van Zandt (1904–1958), actor (private vault)
W
- H. B. Warner (1875–1958), actor (private vault)
- E. Allyn Warren (1874–1940), actor
- Lyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), movie art director
- Kathlyn Williams (1888–1960), actress, screenwriter
Y
- Cy Young (1897–1964), animator
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.[1]