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 inurnments

(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
• Lionel Atwill (1885–1946), actor
• Arthur Aylesworth (1883–1946), actor

B

• Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville) (1919–1972), musician, actor
• Alma Bennett (1904–1958), actress
• Nora Dorothy Bernard (1890–1955), actress
• Nigel Bruce (1895–1953), actor, played Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone
• Mae Busch (1891–1946), actress

C

• Leonard Carey (1887–1977), actor
• Louise Carver (1869–1956), actress
• Helen Chandler (1906–1965), actress, Mina Harker in Dracula (1931)
• Parley Parker Christensen, Utah and California politician, Esperantist
• Colin Clive (1900–1937), actor, Dr. Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (cenotaph here, but ashes were scattered at sea)
• Charles Pearce Coleman (1885–1951), actor
• June Collyer (1906–1968), actress
• Heinie Conklin (1889-1959), actor
• Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
• Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), actress
• Dorothy Christy (1906-1976), actress

D

• Edgar Dearing (1893–1974), actor
• William Desmond (1878–1949), actor, known as "The King of the Silent Serials"
• Margaret Dumont (1889–1965), actress, played "straight woman" to the Marx brothers in seven of their movie comedies

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, known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras"
• Raymond Freidgen (1893–1966), director, producer, writer, actor
• Maude Fulton (1881–1950), actress, screenwriter

G

• Florence Gill (1877–1965), voice actress
• Edmund Gwenn (1875–1959), actor, played Santa Claus in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street

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

J

• Julanne Johnston (1900–1988), actress
• Justine Johnstone (1895–1982), actress
• E. Truman Joiner (1906-1961), key grip

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
• Herbert Marshall (1890–1966), actor
• Edward Martindel (1876–1955), actor
• Sarah Y. Mason, actress
• Torben Meyer (1884–1975), actor
• Gertrude Michael (1910–1965), actress
• Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962), actor, played Gerald O'Hara, Scarlet's father in Gone with the Wind and Uncle Billy in the Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with James Stewart
• Leonard Mudie (1883-1965), actor

N

• Alan Napier (1903–1988), actor, Alfred Pennyworth on TV's Batman
• Ray Nazarro (1902–1986), film director
• Tom Neal (1914–1972), actor, convicted murderer

O

• Willis O'Brien (1886–1962), effects man for King Kong (1933)
• Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actress
• Florence Oakley (1881–1956), actress
• Philip Ober (1902–1982),
• Garry Owen (1902-1951), actor

P

• Franklin Parker (1900–1962), actor
• Stuart Paton (1883–1944), motion picture director
• 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), British actress
• Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, songwriter and composer

S

• William Selig (1864–1948), pioneer movie studio owner
• Ann Sheridan (1915–1967), actress, known as the "Oomph Girl," originally inurned here, her ashes were relocated to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005
• Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor, played Tonto on The Lone Ranger, 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
• Stephen Stucker (1947–1986), actor

T

• Zeffie Tilbury (1863–1950), actress
• Florence Turner (1885–1946), actress, known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent movies

V

• Philip Van Zandt (1904–1958), actor

W

• H. B. Warner (1875–1958), actor (private vaultage)
• E. Allyn Warren (1874–1940), actor
• Lyle R. Wheeler (1905–1990), movie art director
• Kathlyn Williams (1888–1960), actress, screenwriter

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.