Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica
Woodlawn Cemetery, Mortuary & Mausoleum, formerly Ballona Cemetery, is located at 1847 14th Street, alongside Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, United States. The cemetery is owned and operated by the city of Santa Monica.[1] The cemetery has an eco-friendly section, whose first burial was Tom Hayden, former husband of actress Jane Fonda.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elks Pavilion
Woodlawn Cemetery was founded and deeded to the city by Mayor Juan José Carrillo in 1884.
Notable burials
- Hugo Ballin (1879–1956), artist
- Mabel Ballin (1887–1958), Actress
- George Bancroft (1882–1956), actor
- Jay Belasco (1888–1949), actor
- Ted Bessell (1935–1996), actor
- Charles Bickford (1891–1967), actor
- Barbara Billingsley (1915–2010), actress
- William Bishop (1918–1959), actor
- Roberts Blossom (1924-2011), actor
- Bonnie Bonnell (1905–1964), actress
- Edwina Booth (1904–1991), actress
- Edward Brophy (1895–1960), actor
- Leo Carrillo (1880–1961), actor and conservationist
- Henry Cuesta (1931–2003), musician
- Faye Dancer (1925–2002), professional baseball player
- Henry Daniell (1894–1963), actor
- Weston and Winston Doty (1913–1934), acting twins, drowned in a flood
- Cathy Downs (1924–1976), actress
- Vernon Duke (1893–1969), songwriter (later moved)
- Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958), author
- Paul Fix (1901–1983), actor
- Glenn Ford (1916–2006), actor
- Leland Ford (1893–1965), congressman
- Nicolás "Nick" Rolando Gabaldón, Jr. (1927–1951), first documented person-of-color (Mexican-African American) surfer in California
- Ilka Grüning (1876–1964), actress
- William Haines (1900–1973), actor, interior designer
- Tom Hayden (1939-2016), Senator, 1960s activist, author, conservationist[2]
- Paul Henreid (1908–1992), actor, director
Paul Henreid Grave - Phil Hill (1927–2008), race car driver
- Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), psychologist
- Olaf Hytten (1888–1955), actor
- Abbot Kinney (1850–1920), real estate baron
- Harvey Korman (1927–2008), actor and comedian
- Henry Kuttner (1915–1958), author
- Florence Lake (1904–1980), actress
- Audra Lindley (1918–1997), actress
Doug McClure Grave
- Hughie Mack (1884–1927), actor
- Doug McClure (1935–1995), actor
- Micole Mercurio (1938-2016), actress
- Bess Myerson (1924–2014), actress, Miss America, political activist
- Red Norvo (1908–1999), jazz musician
- Lynne Overman (1887–1943), actor
- Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958), British suffragette
- Jimmy Phipps (1950–1969), Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient
- Janos Prohaska (1919–1974), actor, stuntman
- Bill Raisch (1905–1984), actor
- Sally Ride (1951–2012), astronaut and physicist
- Blanche Robinson (1883–1969), pianist & composer
- Irene Ryan (1902–1973), actress and comedian
- Hayes "Big Ed" Sanders (1930–1954), Olympic boxing champion
- E. C. Segar (1894–1938), cartoonist, creator of "Popeye"
- Jimmie Shields (1905–1974), interior designer
- Hal Smith (1916–1994), actor who played Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show
- May Sutton (1886–1975), U.S. and Wimbledon tennis champion
- Sándor Szabó (1906–1966), wrestler
- William Tuttle (1912–2007), make-up artist
- Jesse Unruh (1922–1987), California assembly speaker, state treasurer
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