Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery

This article is about the cemeteries in Los Angeles. For other uses, see Mount Sinai (disambiguation).

Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. The original cemetery is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally established in 1953 by the neighboring Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery. It became an exclusively Jewish cemetery in 1959, and was acquired in 1967 by Sinai Temple, the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles.^[1][2] Among those interred here are numerous stars and celebrities from the entertainment industry.

In 1997, faced with dwindling space at the original Hollywood Hills location, Mount Sinai dedicated a second cemetery location in Simi Valley.^[1][2]

Notable interments and their families

• Bill Novey (1948–1991), Special Effects Master/Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering/co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc.
• Irwin Allen (1916–1991), film director/producer/writer
• Art Aragon (1927–2008), boxer
• Danny Arnold (1925–1995), film actor/editor/writer
• Eleanor Audley (1905–1991), actress, voices of Lady Tremaine in Cinderella and Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty
• Frances Bay (1919-2011), actress, Seinfeld, Who's the Boss?.
• Ruth Berle (1921–1989), second wife of comedian Milton Berle; Milton was originally supposed to be interred here, in a double crypt with Ruth, but was instead interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Herschel Bernardi (1923–1986), actor
• Sara Berner (1912–1969), actress, voice of Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh
• Virginia Christine (1920-1996), actress, voice artist
• Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976), actor
• Ruth Cohen (1930–2008), actress (Seinfeld)
• Stanley Cortez (1908–1997), cinematographer
• Warren Cowan (1921–2008), publicist
• Mack David (1912–1993), composer
• "Mama" Cass Elliott (1941–1974), singer with The Mamas & the Papas
• Ziggy Elman (1911–1968), big-band musician and composer
• Norman Fell (1924–1998), actor, Mr. Roper on TV's "Three's Company"
• Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian
• Helen Forrest (1917–1999), jazz and big band singer
• Karl Freund (1890–1969), Academy Award winning cinematographer
• Eddie Fisher (1928–2010), 1950s pop singer, husbands of Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds, father of Carrie Fisher
• Bruce Geller (1930–1978) film and TV producer
• Sol Gorss (born Saul Gorss) (1908–1966), film and TV actor
• Billy Halop (1920–1976) actor and member of the Dead End Kids.
• Larry Harmon (1925–2008), actor Bozo the Clown
• Nat Hiken (1914–1968), award-winning writer, director, producer
• Gregg Hoffman (1963–2005), Producer of the Saw 1 and Saw 2 horror movies
• Peter Hurkos (1911–1988), Dutch psychic
• Leonard Katzman (1927–1996), film and TV writer, producer, and director
• John Larch (1914–2005), actor
• Sydney Lassick (1922–2003), actor
• Pinky Lee (1907–1993), actor, "The Pinky Lee Show"
• Robert Q. Lewis (1920–1991), television personality, actor, and game show host
• Bruce Malmuth (1934–2005), Motion Picture Director
• Ross Martin (1920–1981), actor
• Laurence Merrick (1926-1977), film director and author
• Irving Mills (1894–1985), composer
• Marvin Minoff (1931–2009), film and television producer, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews
• Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), journalist
• Mark Robson (1913–1978), director
• David Rose (1910–1990), composer
• Milton Rosen (1922–2000), prolific composer
• Steven Rothenberg (1958–2009), film studio executive (Lions Gate, Artisan Entertainment)^[3]
• Mo Rothman (1919-2011), studio executive who persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972.^[3]
• Al Sherman (1897–1973), popular songwriter
• Phil Silvers (1912–1985), comedian, actor
• Sidney Skolsky (1905–1983), Hollywood reporter
• Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Howard Smit (1911–2009), film make-up artist who led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup^[4]
• Abner Spector (1918-2010), songwriter, record producer (Sally Go 'Round the Roses), record company executive
• Harold J. Stone (1913–2005), actor
• Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), animator
• Brandon Tartikoff (1949–1997), television executive
• Irving Taylor (1914–1983), songwriter
• Mel Taylor (1933–1996), rock drummer
• Bobby Van (1928–1980), entertainer
• Harry Wilson (1897–1978), actor, one of The Winkies in The Wizard of Oz.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ruth Stroud, "Westward Expansion", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 20, 1997.
2. ^ ^{a b} Tracy Valeri, "Mount Sinai Park Dedication Set", Los Angeles Daily News, March 15, 1997.
3. ^ ^{a b} DiOrio, Carl (2009-07-19). "Steve Rothenberg dies at 50". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i7c23ccda60974aa20677ac607d102241. Retrieved 2009-08-01. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ Barnes, Mike (2009-08-04). "Makeup artist Howard J. Smit dies". Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/e3ida14248896111f7cc0ad21a18c31dc1b. Retrieved 2009-08-12. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries official website