Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson

Cedar Park Cemetery is a cemetery located in Emerson, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Noted interments

*Martin Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) Academy Award in 1965 for best supporting actor in "A Thousand Clowns" [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=99920&GRid=22957& Find-A-Grave: Martin Balsam] , accessed June 23, 2006] cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place |url= |quote=Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus [sic] tends toward performers. Martin Balsam, who won both a Tony and an Oscar was buried there in 1996. Joe E. Lewis, the comic whose rough life was portrayed by Frank Sinatra in the 1957 movie, "The Joker Is Wild," is nearby. (As are two illustrious nonperformers, the Nobel Prize writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the poet Delmore Schwartz.)|publisher=New York Times |date=March 28, 2004 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] He was survived by Irene Miller and their two children.
*Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) actor, director, poet, and painter [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=99920&GRid=7026602& Find-A-Grave: Julian Beck] , accessed June 23, 2006]
*Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26, 1891 – February 6, 1954) American poet and novelist. Known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=99920&GRid=10552118& Find-A-Grave: Maxwell Bodenheim] , accessed June 23, 2006]
*Myron Cohen (July 1, 1902 – March 10, 1986) comedian and storyteller [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=99920&GRid=13327653& Find-A-Grave: Myron Cohen] , accessed June 23, 2006]
*Sammy Fain (June 17, 1902 – December 6, 1989) composer of popular music [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GScid=99920&GRid=6460691& Find-A-Grave: Sammy Fain] , accessed June 23, 2006]
*Joe E. Lewis
*John Marley (October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984) actor best known for the "horses's head" scene in "The Godfather" [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=81&GScid=99920&GRid=6619197& Find-A-Grave: John Marley] , accessed June 23, 2006]
*Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was a poet, whose first published work was the short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=121&GScid=99920&GRid=936& Find-A-Grave: Delmore Schwartz] , accessed June 23, 2006]
*Isaac Bashevis Singer

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=10552118&CRid=99920 Find-A-Grave information for Cedar Park Cemetery]