Home of Peace Cemetery

Home of Peace Cemetery

The Home of Peace Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 4334 Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, California. There are a number of famous rabbis buried there, and, amongst others, a few celebrities from the entertainment industry are interred here:

*Burt Baskin, business magnate
*Thelma Bernstein, actress
*Fanny Brice, actress (relocated to Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery)
* Louis Burston (1877-1923), motion picture producer
* Boake Carter (1900-1944), journalist
* Lou Clayton (1890-1950), entertainer
* Jack B. Cohn (1906-1947), composer
* Harry Einstein (1904-1958), comedian
*Leo F. Forbstein, composer and conductor
* Al Freeman (1883-1956), actor and writer
* Harold M. Freeman (1916-1944), screenwriter, killed in World War II
*Mack Gordon, composer and lyricist
*Curly Howard,actor,comedian, member of the "Three Stooges"
*Shemp Howard,actor,comedian member of the "Three Stooges"
*Carl Laemmle, film executive, founder of Universal Pictures; he created the "Star" system
*Carl Laemmle Jr., Son of Carl Laemmle
*Edgar Magnin, rabbi and spiritual leader
* Jerry Gershon Mayer (1891-1947), motion picture executive, Louis B. Mayer's sibling
*Louis B. Mayer, a founder of the MGM film studios
* Ida Mayer Cummings, fund-raiser, Louis B Mayer's sibling
* Rudolph W. Mayer (1889-1951),entrepreneur, Louis B. Mayer's sibling
*Carmel Myers, actress
*Kurt Neumann, motion picture director and producer
* Harry Norwood (1888-1952), theatrical talent agent
* Viola Adele Porter (1879-1942), actress
*Harry Rapf, motion picture producer and studio executive
* Marvin Ross (1922-1989), stage and screen actor
*Mark Sandrich, motion picture director
* Morris R. Schlank (1879-1932), motion picture producer
* Abraham Spiegel (1907-2004), philanthropist and European concentration camp survivor
*Abe Stern, motion picture producer
* Bernard Stone (1883-1942), stage and motion picture director
* Joe Traub (born Joseph Weintraub) (1902-1936), screenwriter
*Charles Vidor, motion picture director
*Harry Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers film studios
*Jack Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers film studios
*Sam Warner, co-founder and first CEO of Warner Brothers film studios
* Conrad Wells (born Abraham Fried) (1892-1930), cinematographer
*Osher Zilberstein, rabbi


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